The Nations Next Door
A Ministry of Refuge International
What is TNND?
The Nations Next Door (TNND) is a summer missions experience for middle and high school student groups that seeks to acquaint students with God’s heart for the nations whom God has brought to Greater Louisville. This is accomplished in the following three ways: Cultural Immersion, Missions, and Formation.
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Your students will be introduced to various types of ethnic foods, have the opportunity to visit a Buddhist temple or mosque and will attend an ethnic Christian church service.
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Your students will have the opportunity to plan and implement an outreach to a culturally diverse apartment complex. Examples include backyard bible clubs, community cookouts, VBS, community carnival, etc.
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Your students will hear testimonies from refugees who have been resettled here in Louisville as well as from former and current foreign and local missionaries. Students will also participate in evangelism training, different simulations to understand global cultures and experiences, daily devotions, worship and prayer .
Participant Testimony
“The Nations Next Door was such a gift to me as a youth pastor. I couldn't have imagined a better way for my students to be connected to the heart of God for the sojourner and alien among us, than through the ministry of Refuge in building relationships between the local church and refugee communities around Louisville. Every one of my students came back with hearts that were stirred in love for refugees in our city, and every one of them felt the loving challenge of the call of Jesus, as the one who welcomes in the outcast, to go and do likewise in their own schools and neighborhoods. Thank you Refuge!”
— Murray, Associate Pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian