Sometimes our missionaries get to be a part of amazing movements of the Holy Spirit. Their obedience to God’s calling brings them into situations where miracles happen. Austin Carroll found himself in one of these moments during his time on the World Race.   Can one child make a difference? When one 12-year-old Indian girl followed three missionaries to a house in her village, she had no idea how her life was about to change. Vashanti had learned life was hard. Beaten by her father and small for her age, she was accustomed to invisibility. Not expecting the visitors to notice her,...

We have a practice that is unique to our ministry called listening prayer. In our training, we teach you how to listen to God and respond to what he is saying. This is more challenging for some than others, but the bottom line is that we believe God wants to communicate with us and that most of us could make more room in our lives to listen.   Usually on your typical AIM mission trip, you will have at least one opportunity to do an “Ask the Lord” (ATL) exercise. This is basically a more focused time of listening prayer, in which your ministry team asks God what type of ministry...

Hearing God’s voice, what we call “listening prayer“, is a part of any AIM mission trip. In fact, the whole trip (whether it is a team of adults or a youth group) is structured around giving participants practical experiences with prayer.   But this process isn’t just for missionaries or people that go on short-term mission trips; listening prayer is something that every follower of Christ should be doing. How to hear God’s voice through listening in prayer Below is an excerpt from an article Seth Barnes wrote, called “The Basics of Listening Prayer“,...