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INSIDE STORY
4 THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE
AUGUST 2019
CROATIA: Little moments that mean a lot
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Brady Ross and his father, Bobby Ross
Jr., on a recent Sunday at the Kuslanova
Church of Christ in Zagreb, Croatia.
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For my son, a few encouraging
words from Brenda Gordon,
the longtime children’s ministry
director at the Edmond church,
made an eternal difference.
Go back a decade to when Brady
served as a counselor for a summer
Bible camp that Gordon helps lead.
“It’s so cool to see someone come
to camp as a camper and then come
back as a counselor,” Gordon told
him. “Before you know it, they’re a
youth minister.”
A spark was lit — one that helped
crystallize what my son wanted to
do with his life.
Not everybody is a big fan of
short-term missions. But — as
Brady tells me later over dinner at a
Croatian pizzeria — they’ve made a
huge difference in his faith journey
“As I look back on times when I’ve
felt closest to God, many of those
times were on mission trips,” he says.
That’s why, it seems to me, he’s so
intent on providing similar opportuni-
ties for the teens in his youth group.
As we await our pepperoni pizza,
Brady visits with the Crestview teens
about their experi-
ences helping with
Champs Camp. It’s a
Vacation Bible School-
style day camp for
Croatian children in
Zagreb, the capital of
this central European
nation.
Taylor Vowels, 17,
tells about a little
girl who had trouble
communicating in
English.
“So she went all the
way to her backpack
and pulled out her
phone and started
getting on Google
Translate,” Taylor
Paltjon
says. “That was just really sweet that
she would put in that much effort to
try and get to know me.”
Before Croatia, Evan Paltjon,
17, enjoyed past mission efforts in
Guatemala, Honduras, Oklahoma
City, San Antonio and San Francisco.
“It’s a lot of fun to go with friends
and serve other people,” Paltjon says.
“It’s definitely something that God
has called us to do, for sure. Just
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something that feels good to be able
to impact people in a positive way and
just be able to plant a seed for people
in their faith and their well-being.”
I ask Brady if he has any advice
for organizing a youth mission trip.
Just a bit of his insight:
• “Choose your adults care-
fully.” Depending on the adult
sponsors, parents may or may not
allow their children to go.
• “Do criminal background
checks.” Especially for an overseas
trip, organizers can’t be too careful in
planning and vetting.
• “Be vocal about why
missions matter.” It’s helpful to
emphasize the benefits both for the
teens and those served.
• “Prepare the group to
serve.” Pray for the team. Make
sure each
person is ready
spiritually for
the work.
As Brady
wraps up his
sermon, I
thank God for
all the faithful
Christians
who have blessed my son — and
our entire family — and led us to
this Croatian-speaking church on a
picture-perfect Lord’s Day
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