Attend a Finishers Forum event. This two-day conference is assembled by a consortium of leading North American mission agencies who are partners with the Finishers Project. It is a place where the serious fun of music, drama, multi-media and teaching are all designed to help you reflect on where God might be leading you now or several years down the road. Experience in part Finishers Forum '98 and '00 by ordering audio tapes. These are not messages you hear on Sunday morning. You will be challenged to the core.

Complete the Ministry Selection Forms and submit your interests to various Finishers Project partner agencies. It will open up a whole new array of doors for you by enabling you to pre-select from over 20,000 ministry opportunities.

Read stories of peers who have made this transition, the kinds of challenges they have undertaken, and interact with them about the process they went through.

• Let the Nations Be Glad! The Supremacy of God in Missions, John Piper
  
• Operation World: When we pray God works by Patrick Johnstone
  
• The Church Is Bigger Than You Think by Patrick Johnstone
  
• Serving as Senders by Neal Pirolo
• Marching to a Different Drummer by Jim Raymo

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Perhaps you feel you would like to explore what is suggested for other stages. Click on another stage that partially describes where you are for an array of "next steps" that you could take now.

I’m just beginning
I've been so busy with life, work, family and church that I'm just now "looking up from my desk", as it were, and beginning to think about the second half of life. I'm considering how to balance my priorities and where missions might fit. I'm asking if my current career is where God wants me to stay. How would I begin to investigate mission possibilities? Now...don't get me wrong... I am not considering moving to some far-off country! I just want the freedom to think broader than I have been able to in the recent past.

I’m investigating
A while back I decided that I wanted to pursue something that will outlast me. I want to do something significant with my life in my remaining adult years. Frankly, I haven't found a place to plug in. I'd love some help assessing my spiritual gifts and passions, learning about the opportunities available, and determining what I would have to do to prepare.

I’m deciding
I have identified my spiritual gifts and passions, and I have found a few places where I can contribute. However, I am not sure that I have found the right spot yet. I am willing to go just about anywhere God calls me, but I want to know that it's Him calling me to be involved in a work that He is doing.

I’m just not sure...
...about missions or me and missions. I have a few questions for the Lord; I am not sure this is the Lord's will for me. What does the Lord expect of me, anyway? And what about all the problems here in America?

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