At youth group, we've been looking at different aspects of mission. It's been quite fun (well, at least for me). Last night we looked at one of the biggest challenges that missionaries go through - language!

One of our simulation activities was to break up into groups and make up a few phrases in a new language, and then teach it to people from another group - without using English of course! (though people didn't stick strictly to that rule...)

Here is some footage of a few of the groups. It looks very random to anyone who wasn't there on the night. But see if you can work out what they are saying. :D

Give thanks that we have such ready access to the Bible in our own language, such that we have too many choices when we go to a Christian bookstore. Pray for missionaries working overseas, especially those in the work of Bible translation. Pray that God may give them great patience and endurance as they seek to communicate the great news of Jesus Christ to a foreign people.