The topic on my mind right now: missions...
I am a very mission-minded person... I want to mission everywhere I go...so long as that particular trip has the word "mission" attached to the front of it (i.e. mission trip to S.C.).
But who says it has to be like that? I'm constantly hearing about how mission work can begin in my own town. Try taking it a step further...is South Rowan High School not as much of a mission field as Main Street Mission...or Garden City, S.C...or how about Haiti??
What I'm trying to get at here is this: you don't have to travel far to find a mission field. You don't have to pay big bucks, travel to some foriegn country, or even meet any new people. All you have to do is find someone who will listen--who wants to listen--and share your heart. That doesn't mean start professing your faith at any random kid who walks by...but start by being an example...don't be the one who takes God's name in vain or noticably cheats on a test. Be something different, and start small.
Alright, so we have it established that your school can be a mission field...now take it a step further: foreign missions. It seems like every mission-minded person feels the need to get out of the country and experience missions in a different land at least once. I'm right there in that category. Every time a group of missionaries from my church comes back from one of those trips, my heart pings because I know how badly I want to be there with them. Seeing the pictures, the videos, of those precious children and how much they appreciate every little thing we do for them...it just gets me.
I've never been out of the country before; yet as soon as my dad returns from a trip to Haiti, I immediately decide that's where I want to go. The conditions in Haiti aren't the greatest in the world...in fact, they are far from our definition of "great," or probably even "good." And still I, the city-slicker little girl, want to go there.
God's word says this:
How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!"
- Romans 10:14 & 15
I so desperately desire to be those "feet." I want to be used by God to share His word to those who have not heard it... Now whether that is in Haiti or Landis, N.C., that's not for me to decide. God can use me in whatever way He pleases.
Tonight my best friend and I made a sort of pact. A pact to pray each other up. We're both feeling the call to missions... We don't know where, what, why or how, but we know that as long as we're trusting in God for this, He will show us His plan.
