As you're planning for a new year, here are a few reflection and projection questions . . . for looking back and looking forward. 

Here's our EPIC New Year's Life-Planning Guide <<< 

One-year Bible Reading Chart <<<

Today's lesson continues our series about how to have an "EPIC" New Year. "E" stands for being EMPOWERED everyday by God's Holy Spirit, and that begins by totally surrendering our lives to Jesus Christ.

Much of today's lesson comes from one of our ROCK SOLID Discipleship Course lessons, all about "How do I LIVE for God? And how do I share my faith?" We're talking about the importance of living with total SURRENDER to Jesus, making Him the LORD of every area, and the importance of our personal testimony.

EPIC Life-Planning Course: http://missionmindedfamilies.org/p/epic

This episode focuses on seeking God for His GOALS and PLANS for the new year, from a mission-minded perspective.  

Are you ready for an EPIC New Year?  Come join Ann Dunagan for a Life-Planning series for 2020 -- with videos, worksheets, assessments, and a community of Mission-Minded Women to encourage you.  You can download the 20-page guide, to help you step-by-step -- and the online training is FREE!!!

Focus your life for God's Purposes!

At Mission-Minded Families, we want to help you to live everyday, 24/7, for eternity and God’s glory. This Prayer Guide will help you to review this past year as you look forward to the next year, prayerfully considering your personal, family, ministry and mission priorities.

Today's mission-minded focus is PERSPECTIVES about Harvest and Halloween from Matthew 9:35-39.

Ann Dunagan shares from her heart as a Christian mom about how to "deal with" October 31st -- from a biblical and historical perspective, focusing on the need for "Harvest" and being a light for Jesus in this dark and needy world.

Be encouraged as Ann Dunagan shares practical ideas for busy moms and families, about being ambassadors for Jesus Christ and having a passion to be a witness for Jesus, especially during the month of October.

This episode's Bible teaching is from II Corinthians 5:17-21, focusing on the phrase, "Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us..." Highlights also include sharing the "Pumpkin Gospel" or Pumpkin evangelism (by Angie Tolpin -- FREE download at - http://angietolpin.com ), using the carving of a pumpkin to share the good news of God's salvation. 

A mom named Jenny from Washington state asks, "How can I get my husband to pray with me?" Ann Dunagan addresses this question for mission-minded families. How can we encourage our husband to be the spiritual leader he's called to be? 

Psalm 133:1-3 "Behold how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell together in unity..."

Matthew 6 "When you pray . . . go into your room and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place..."

In this 4-minute mini-podcast, a mom asks,

"How can we begin to prepare our hearts to raise a mission-minded child, when we're expecting a baby? Can we begin during pregnancy?"

In today's episode, Ann Dunagan shares from PART 1 of her book, The Mission-Minded Child: Raising a New Generation to Fulfill God's Purpose, including "Releasing Your Child to God" (Chapter 1) and "Raising Your Child for God" (Chapter 2).

The Mission-Minded Child is the first book in our 3-part "basic-foundation-set" for Mission-Minded Families (including The Mission-Minded Child, The Mission-Minded Family, and The Scarlet Cord: Nothing but the Blood of Jesus).

Our mission-minded books are available from Mission-Minded Families http://MissionMindedFamiles.org and also from Amazon, Christian Book Distributors, and from our publisher, InterVarsity Press. 

In this episode, Ann Dunagan introduces a book for parents and teachers, The Mission-Minded Child, all about training your child to have a heart for God and for others.

The Mission-Minded Child is available from Amazon, Christian Book Distributors, and from Mission-Minded Families. http://missionmindedfamilies.org

And here's the 3-D Kids Course: Raising Daring Doing Disciples http://missionmindedfamilies.org/p/3-d-free

Listen to a sample of The Mission-Minded Family: Releasing Your Family to God's Destiny, by Author, Ann Dunagan.

4.41 minutes.

In this final chapter of The Mission-Minded Family: Releasing Your Family to God's Destiny, author Ann Dunagan shares practical encouragement and ideas for traveling and going overseas for missions and ministry. Included are Questions and Answers, Practical travel tips for families with children, stories and testimonies, plus ideas for both short-term and long-term missionary service for families.

Chapter 9: You Can Go.

75 minutes.

Listen as author Ann Dunagan reads from her book, The Mission-Minded Family: Releasing Your Family to God's Destiny.

Chapter 8 - Mission-Minded Ministry Ideas

In this chapter, you'll be inspired with many different ministry ideas that you and your children can do together, from puppet skits, drama, object lessons, testimonies, and using your skills and interests. 

48 minutes

Listen as author Ann Dunagan reads from her book, The Mission-Minded Family: Releasing Your Family to God's Destiny.

Chapter 7 -- Missions and Family Finances

In this chapter, you'll learn more about how missionaries trust God and raise support for the work of the ministry they're called to do, and also how every family can step out in faith to give to the Lord's work.

34 minutes

Listen as author Ann Dunagan reads from her book, The Mission-Minded Family: Releasing Your Family to God's Destiny.

Chapter 5 - Becoming Prayer Champions

This chapter focused on intercessory prayer as a mission-minded family: how to pray effectively for others and how to train your children in a powerful life of prayer.

50 minutes.

Listen as author, Ann Dunagan, reads through her book, The Mission-Minded Family: Releasing Your Family to God's Destiny.

In this chapter, many international holidays are introduced, month by month, as helpful learning ideas for your family to pray for relevant global mission needs all throughout the year.

34 minutes.

Listen as author Ann Dunagan reads from her book The Mission-Minded Family: Releasing Your Family to God's Destiny.

This extensive chapter focuses on an overview of famous Missionary Heroes, with specific focus on how these global-impacting ministers cared for their own families, including both positive and negative examples. What can we learn from the various ways these missionary heroes handled the difficult missions-family balance? Included are "Family Friendly Resources" to share these heroes with your own kids, along with excerpts, quotes, "Mission-Minded Monologue Skits" and vital personal lessons to apply to our parenting today.

75 minutes.

Listen as author Ann Dunagan reads from her book, The Mission-Minded Family: Releasing Your Family to God's Destiny.

Chapter 3 - Divine Tension for Our Family Bow

19.5 minutes

Listen as author Ann Dunagan reads through her book, The Mission-Minded Family: Releasing Your Family to God's Destiny

Chapter 2: 3 Powerful Dynamics of a Mission-Minded Family:

• Dynamic #1 - A Mission-Minded Family is Focused on Eternity
• Dynamic #2 - A Mission-Minded Family Lives in SUB-mission
• Dynamic #3 - A Mission-Minded Family is Strategically Aimed

37 minutes

Listen as author Ann Dunagan reads from her book, The Mission-Minded Family:

Chapter 1 - Releasing Your Family to God's Destiny

10 minutes

Listen, as author Ann Dunagan reads from her book, The Mission-Minded Family: Releasing Your Family to God's Destiny:

Introduction: What is a Mission-Minded Family?

15.16 minutes

Listen to author Ann Dunagan as she reads from her book, The Mission-Minded Family: Releasing Your Family to God's Destiny.

Preliminary material: Back cover, Forward, and How to Use this book

7.5 minutes