What Can I Expect?

As a participant or group leader, you can expect:

• Ever lasting, unexpected change!
• Integrity
• Thoroughness and attention to detail
• Sensitivity to you or your group's specific ministry needs
• Defining exact field ministry need and developing a strategy for success
• True ministry perspective on how you or your group can become involved in international ministry using music

Our goal is direct partnership between you as a participant, GMP as a ministry coordinator and our missionary partners on the field.

GMP Projects - All projects are selected to connect the project participants with the needs of people in the community we go to serve. Often these projects will include secondary ministry beyond our impact through music.

Outreach Ministry (evangelism) - The outreach ministry planned for each trip is determined by the skills that the participants bring and done in a way to build relationships and demonstrate God's abounding love and that He provides hope and a purpose for life. The level of direct evangelism is always based on the strategies of the missionary teams. OUR END GOAL IS TO LEAVE OUR MISSIONARIES STRONGER WHEN WE LEAVE THEN WHEN WE CAME.

Relationship Building - Project participants and the GMP leadership team are encouraged to build relationships and show that our mission is first and foremost about demonstrating that we care about people and that God does too. Music is the strategy that allows open doors.

Love & Accept: As a Christian, we become a visual picture of God’s love to those we touch. We come to show His Love as we Care for people – What does God’s love look like? ..and.. What is our ultimate motive for caring, interacting and sharing our life? Out of love we are able to resist our natural tendency to judge and change others and to simply accept them as they are as unique creations of a loving God.

Listen & Learn: How we enter into new relationships within a cross-cultural setting is very important. We come to Listen and Learn which begins with an intentional focus that moves our attention away from of our own personal interests, values and faith and centers our attention on another’s world – how do they see life, the world and faith?

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” (Matt. 11:28-30)

Serve & Partner: Servant hood is love acting in life’s relationships. We serve others best by partnering with them … by recognizing what they have to contribute and how our mutual collaboration will bring a better, more long lasting, result and will maintain the dignity and worth of all involved.

“I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the Gospel from the first day until now.” (Phil. 1:4-5) … “As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker among you.” (2 Cor. 8:23)

Reciprocal Change: And as we interact and demonstrate respect for people, the diversity of our lives creates opportunities for reciprocal learning, growth and life-change. We have something to learn from everyone once we set aside our judgments, prejudices and cultural ways of ranking the value of people. My job is not to change others, but to change myself.

“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will.” (Romans 12:2)

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