Mauritania, Africa
i've been really encouraged by a couple of things these last few days. first is how great and amazing our GOD is. i'm in awe of how GOD would go to such a lenth to grab the attention of ordinary sinners, even to the extent of laying down the life of the Son of God himself. ISAIAH 53:10 "Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put [him] to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand."
(for those of you who weren'te there...) this past sundays worship was done by a few volunteer masters college students. One of the songs sung was "how great is our God." it pretty much says that our Lord is amazing. the message is quite simple but it was all I could think about days, the fact that GOD is so great. WOW!
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I guess tomorrow is the big day for me. the missons commite is going to present to the elder board the proposal to send missionaries over seas for the summer of '06. i've been feeling a tugging on my heart to give my upcoming summer to serving. so after running the idea through a few people and asking for inputs, i end up at the churches once a month missions meeting (after working my way through a whole list of people as to what the steps to serving as a summer missionary was). I wasn't sure of what to expect from this missions meetings, being that i've never been to one before. pretty much what happenned was i went in, told them that i was there to serve and that GOD was laying it on my heart to give my summer to the lord and, they all seemed to unanimously think that i was the missionary needed to teach English in Africa..
How amazing it that for GOD can articulate such a thing and make it fall into place. Turns out, the missionaries in Mauritania Africa have been asking for a long term helper. At first I wasn't too exited about the idea cause it wasn’t' out-front preaching like I am used to, and i've no teaching background, but I realized that I did say that I’ll go anywhere GOD wants to send me. Basically, it's an overseas English teacher position open and the mission is to create friends and share the gospel with them through relationships. I’ve not the darndest idea of how to teach, honest truth the closest I’ve ever come to teaching are my Sundays school kids on Sunday morning. I totally feel uneuipted but if that’s where I’m needed, I’ll go. It’s not what I’m used to, and it will be a for sure stretching of myself, but I know that GOD equips those he calls. i really wanna reach out to people as Paul of the bible did (especially V:22), without idea of what's to come:
Acts 20:18-22 (NIV)
18When they arrived, he said to them: "You know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I came into the province of Asia. 19I served the Lord with great humility and with tears, although I was severely tested by the plots of the Jews. 20You know that I have not hesitated to preach anything that would be helpful to you but have taught you publicly and from house to house. 21I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus.
22"And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there.
(for those of you who weren'te there...) this past sundays worship was done by a few volunteer masters college students. One of the songs sung was "how great is our God." it pretty much says that our Lord is amazing. the message is quite simple but it was all I could think about days, the fact that GOD is so great. WOW!
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I guess tomorrow is the big day for me. the missons commite is going to present to the elder board the proposal to send missionaries over seas for the summer of '06. i've been feeling a tugging on my heart to give my upcoming summer to serving. so after running the idea through a few people and asking for inputs, i end up at the churches once a month missions meeting (after working my way through a whole list of people as to what the steps to serving as a summer missionary was). I wasn't sure of what to expect from this missions meetings, being that i've never been to one before. pretty much what happenned was i went in, told them that i was there to serve and that GOD was laying it on my heart to give my summer to the lord and, they all seemed to unanimously think that i was the missionary needed to teach English in Africa..
How amazing it that for GOD can articulate such a thing and make it fall into place. Turns out, the missionaries in Mauritania Africa have been asking for a long term helper. At first I wasn't too exited about the idea cause it wasn’t' out-front preaching like I am used to, and i've no teaching background, but I realized that I did say that I’ll go anywhere GOD wants to send me. Basically, it's an overseas English teacher position open and the mission is to create friends and share the gospel with them through relationships. I’ve not the darndest idea of how to teach, honest truth the closest I’ve ever come to teaching are my Sundays school kids on Sunday morning. I totally feel uneuipted but if that’s where I’m needed, I’ll go. It’s not what I’m used to, and it will be a for sure stretching of myself, but I know that GOD equips those he calls. i really wanna reach out to people as Paul of the bible did (especially V:22), without idea of what's to come:
Acts 20:18-22 (NIV)
18When they arrived, he said to them: "You know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I came into the province of Asia. 19I served the Lord with great humility and with tears, although I was severely tested by the plots of the Jews. 20You know that I have not hesitated to preach anything that would be helpful to you but have taught you publicly and from house to house. 21I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus.
22"And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there.
posted by a at
22:32
3 Comments:
bring me back some hyennas. Im not sure if thats the right spelling but they're soo cool.
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Romey, At
23:26
Chey, that'll be cool if you get to go to Africa. It'll be a good experience. And even if you don't get to, still Praise God that your were willing.
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Romey, At
23:30
yea chey, if God is sending you, he will equip u. he would not have done so if he didn't already know that u r capable. Teaching english isn't that bad is it? i mean the worst that can happen is...they'll stone you if they can't speak english..hahah j/k yea that was too harsh
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Ronsaren, At
00:09
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