I started this blog almost 5 months ago. It was birthed out of my experience at Urbana. Urbana is a christian missions conference that took place in St. Louis, MO. While there I felt God calling me to missions but not the way you might think. I am not missionary like AT ALL.
I like running water. I'm not a fan of roughing it. I can't STAND bugs or wild life. As I like to say, Nature is not my friend. And I don't really have a desire to travel. When you think missionary you think of someone who goes to Africa or Haiti or India or some other hurting country. To know me you know that just ain't me.
God isn't the type to put you in a situation where He knows you will fail. Then I realized, there are hurting people in my neighborhood. There are scared uncertain people on my block. I pass them everyday on the street. My mission field isn't some country 30 hrs away its right in my backyard.
Then I had a Moses moment. I said to the Lord, "Who am I?" (Exodus 3:11) And He said, "I am who I am. 'I AM has sent you.' "
So here I am. The Unlikely Missionary.
I've got my faults, I'm not perfect, I mess up, fall down, get turned around and all of that. But I serve a wonderful, loving perfect God who always welcomes me back when I do something stupid.
So the journey begins today. It took me five months to get it together but at least I didn't take as long as Moses to get my act together. Lol.
I like running water. I'm not a fan of roughing it. I can't STAND bugs or wild life. As I like to say, Nature is not my friend. And I don't really have a desire to travel. When you think missionary you think of someone who goes to Africa or Haiti or India or some other hurting country. To know me you know that just ain't me.
God isn't the type to put you in a situation where He knows you will fail. Then I realized, there are hurting people in my neighborhood. There are scared uncertain people on my block. I pass them everyday on the street. My mission field isn't some country 30 hrs away its right in my backyard.
Then I had a Moses moment. I said to the Lord, "Who am I?" (Exodus 3:11) And He said, "I am who I am. 'I AM has sent you.' "
So here I am. The Unlikely Missionary.
I've got my faults, I'm not perfect, I mess up, fall down, get turned around and all of that. But I serve a wonderful, loving perfect God who always welcomes me back when I do something stupid.
So the journey begins today. It took me five months to get it together but at least I didn't take as long as Moses to get my act together. Lol.
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