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.
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 ...
Destino Stage 2
After three years of working with Destino we decided to sit down and write out some of the things we had learned (often the hard way). The result is "Destino Stage 2: Principles we used as God grew our Destino ...
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 ...
Have We Gone Too Fast?
"Raising up a generation of Latino and Hispanic leaders to change the world." This is the phrase that you see and hear often in Destino. It is our purpose, what we hope for and move towards. I've been thinking lately about ...
Pursuing Peace Requires Challenging the Status Quo
And the wolf will dwell with the lamb, And the leopard will lie down with the young goat, And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; And a little boy will lead them. Also the cow and the bear will graze, Their ...
Are You Cloning or Discipling?
It was my senior year of college and I was heading to campus to pick up a student I was discipling in my bible study that year. Cory was a young believer when we met at the start of the ...
- September 21, 2012Why Do We Need Both Cru and Destino?(6) Comments
- September 17, 2012The Need for Mutual Conversion(5) Comments
- September 11, 2012Largest Minority Group on Campus More Spiritually Open Than Ever(2) Comments
- September 10, 2012All Ministry is Contextualized(2) Comments
- September 7, 2012What is Culture?(2) Comments
- August 1, 2012Changing Me in the City(0) Comments
- June 29, 2012The Space of Airplanes -- Living in Liminality(2) Comments
- June 21, 2012Is Empathy the Key to Creativity?(4) Comments
- June 12, 2012"LIMBO": A Story from the Hearts and Mouths of the Undocumented(0) Comments
- May 27, 2012Rejecting Rejection: Belonging and the Kingdom(6) Comments