How to Get Children Involved with Missions w/ Founder and President of Beautiful Feet International

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Today we talk missions with Melissa Heiland, founder and president of the missions organization Beautiful Feet International. Melissa has led missions teams since 2000 and offers helpful ways parents can lead and encourage their children to get involved with missions, based on her insight and years of real world experience. God's heart is still for missions. As parents we can lead the charge in cultivating a family with a missions heart.

Here are some of Melissa's recommendations:

• Read missionary biographies aloud with your kids
• Start by serving locally through a soup kitchen or pregnancy resource center
• Make praying for missionaries a regular part of your family prayer time
• Serve and support organizations like Angel Tree and Samaritan's Purse
• Find books and journals written about missionaries specifically for children

Melissa's book is also a fantastic resource on short term missions. Prepare yourself and your family with this 31-day devotional that focuses on Scriptures, stories, and prayers to ready you for God's work. Get Set: A Spiritual Preparation for Short-term Mission Partners is available on Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/Get-Set-Spiritual-Preparation-Short-Term/dp/0976764555

Melissa Heiland is a wife, mother of 6, and grandmother of 12. She’s an author, speaker, and missionary, and holds degrees from Wake Forest University and the University of Central Missouri with specialties in education and curriculum and instruction. Melissa is the Founder and President of Beautiful Feet International, a mission organization that starts international pregnancy centers. Beautiful Feet has over 100 pregnancy ministries in over 30 nations. Melissa has led mission teams since 2000 and is the recipient of the 2014 EvanTell Matthew 4:19 award and the 2022 Heartbeat International Servant Leader award. Her passion is teaching others to share the Gospel and to protect life. It was a pleasure talking with Melissa on 5-Minute Parenting! Be sure to visit her website for more information about her ministry and links to her books.

Visit Melissa's website: https://www.beautifulfeetinternational.com/

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