Journey to the Nations: It’s a Different World in Here
In the last 10 years, I have participated in 22 mission
trips. Twenty-Two. You may be surprised
to discover that not one of them required a passport. Instead my mission trips
took place in locations like Lodge Grass, Montana; Onancock, Virginia; and Schuylkill
County, Pennsylvania.
Every one of my mission experiences has been within the
United States.
In Lodge Grass we served the people of the Crow Nation. They
had more than their own law enforcement there on the reservation. They had
their own language and lifestyle. The poverty was so severe, I saw a family of
six sharing a one-bedroom, single-wide trailer with holes in the walls. It was
another world.
In Onancock, we served a vast immigrant population. Many of
the kids in our “Kids’ Club” did not speak a word of English. Right there on
the Eastern Shore of Virginia, we encountered first generation Americans from
Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Honduras. Their families came here for a
better life but were all found to be struggling in poverty amid gang violence. It
was another world.
In Schuylkill County, we served several small coal-mining
towns. I had thought America was the land of opportunity, but in talking with
local parents, one sensed the presence of a hopelessness in their poverty so
pervasive that it made one marvel at the difference a single industry could
make. It was another world.
What have I learned from all of this?
When it comes to mission work, you don’t have to travel far
to be a whole world away.
Now, dear friends, may you have the privilege to bring the Kingdom of God with
you to worlds unknown…be they near or far.
“The kingdom of God
is within you.” – Luke 17:20
Amen.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
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Journey To The Nations: Soulcial Media Missionaries
the writers here at Daily Fast Fuel have visited 16 countries together.
We have made 470 missionary journeys
that have resulted in 36,000+ heart-touches.
And we've done it all from 6 different homes,
5 different states
and 3 different time zones,
without ever being in the same place at the same time.
That's the power of the internet, ladies and gentlemen.
We have managed to do, in less than two years, something that once might have taken a lifetime. We are reaching out to people ALL OVER THE WORLD, every single day, and most days, we're doing it while wearing our pajamas (perhaps I'm only speaking for myself there!).
Is it a suitable replacement for human contact? Of course not, but it's definitely a viable means for reaching the lost. I like to call us SOULcial media missionaries, and I'm grateful the Father has given us this open door to share the mysteries of Christ (Colossians 4:3).
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Monday, October 22, 2012
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