What kinds of students...

decide to give their lives as missionaries or feel called by God to be missionaries? Have you ever wondered about that? Is it purely random or do certain personality types or kids with certain kinds of families and experiences that end up serving overseas? Well, I wonder about that and I'm sitting down right now to write my final paper for a class I'm in called data-driven decisions. It's way more fascinating than it sounds...but the point of the final paper was to do some data-gathering and then use that to inform a decision I need to make. The decision I need to make is two-fold...is a one-day event with middle school through college kids focused on missions an effective way to increase the missions value among our students and generate a pool of students that are preparing to serve overseas? The second part is, is there any significant differences between the students who went forward to commit their lives as missionaries and those who didn't? The last part which will take the next 10 years to figure out is...what are the factors that determine whether or not a student who made a commitment actually ends up on the field? So...me and my buddy survey monkey sent out a survey to about 225 students of the 325ish or so that were at our event to tell us a little bit about themselves and their experience at reach on Dec 2. So...I need to crunch some numbers, see what I see, and then write what I see...fun and exciting on one hand, and on the other...i'll be in this coffee shop for like the next 5 hours :(

This entry was posted by Josh Mann, on Saturday, December 15, 2007. WEIGH IN.