The Notebook, Dear John, Moulin Rouge, The Great Gatsby. What do all of these movies have in common? Well, for some of you maybe it’s that their boring, girly, unrealistic chick flicks. If this is you, you and I must agree to disagree because, personally, they are all amazing love stories. If truth be told, I happen to be a sucker for love stories, but let me tell you a tale of the greatest love story of all time.

I work with Mission Europe and believe totally in all God is doing in the continent. However, for the last 10 years I held the desire to go to Africa and visit the child my family sponsor in Rwanda and just this last month, I made it. 

STM. Short Term Missions. This year I think I have heard those three words more times than I will at any other point in my life. Yet, I am not sick of these three words, as they have truly become the centre of my internship and role at Mission: Europe, but also, because their value has become a lot more evident to me! But where did short term missions begin for this Australian?

What is Mission? This is the question that you may or may not of seen floating around the M:E Facebook page. So what is mission?

A couple of the M:E team members saddled up their rides and headed up to Lincoln, UK for the One Event conference. Although the living arrangements were not quite the same with some of us in a cozy home, with heating and home cooked meals, while others of us were alternatively sleeping in a supposedly 2 man tent (more like 2 child tent), freezing and eating undercooked rice.