Adopt a College Student Program
Connecting our Destino students with local churches is a high priority. We developed an "Adopt a College Student" program to help our students become involved in the lives of families in churches. Download a prototype description to see how we ...
Ethnic Identity Model
One of our main goals in Destino is to help students grow in their ethnic identity journey. We've adopted a model from Orlando Crespo's book, "Being Latino in Christ", to help staff and students better understand how to help someone ...
Spontaneous Expansion of the Church
Title: Spontaneous Expansion of the Church and Causes that Hinder It Written by Roland Allen in 1927 this book challenges missionaries to consider the ways they may be preventing gospel movements from expanding. Download the kindle version below.
Bridge Peoples: The Role of Biculturals in World Evangelization
Bicultural people have always had a unique role in God's plan of redeeming the nations. This article examines the Biblical basis for the part biculturals can play in world evangelization. This article originally appeared in the May 2010 Issue of Lausanne ...
What is Culture?
The first video in a series in training for Cross Cultural Ministry. This video focuses on "What is Culture?". In it a definition of culture is developed as well as the iceberg model of culture. Finally a Biblical paradigm for ...
La Novela de Dios Bible Study
In the Spring of 2011 our Destino movement created it's own Novela. We wanted to expose our students to more of God's word. Many of them had never heard the stories of God from the Old Testament. What better way ...
¿Como Que Failing?
Helping Latino students succeed academically is extremely important to us in Destino. Nationwide only 52% of Hispanic freshmen will graduate within six years. We want to do something about that. We've developed a resource called "¿Como Que Failing? - How to ...
Acts Bible Study: Launching a Movement
Our staff team wrote this Bible study of the book of Acts from the perspective of launching a movement. Written using the Essentials CHAT format but with a distinct Latino feel, it explores topics such as ethnic identity, the seriousness ...
Lectio Divina en Familia
Lectio Divina, Latin for divine reading, is an ancient Catholic practice of prayer and scripture reading whose goal is to promote meeting with God. The introduction to a devotional book Solo says, “Lectio divina is more Bible basking than Bible ...
What Marriage Has Taught Me About Contextualization
This is the first post in our series on contextualization and the gospel. You can read more posts here: Contextualization and the Gospel. Eight years ago today I married the woman of my dreams. We've been all over the world together, through ...
5 Ways to Connect Your Movement to Churches
The biggest correlation to our Destino students long term spiritual success has been the depth of their connection to local churches. Over time we've noticed that the students who are most involved in church are the most likely to be ...
Becoming A Believer Didn’t Take Away My Ethnicity
The following is a part of our series on Ethnic Identity. I remember several years ago taking a personality test that asked a series of questions connected to worldview in relation to God and humanity. Essentially, each question related to how ...
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