Guatemala 2004, Dave’s feet after a village outreach in the rainforests of El Peten.
Romans 10:13-15 gives a beautiful model of missions- senders and sent ones. “For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. But how can they call on Him to save them unless they believe in Him? And how can they believe in Him if they have never heard about Him? And how can they hear about Him unless someone tells them? And how will anyone tell them without being sent? …How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”
Dave and I have been called to send, to go and in this season, we are called to help make “beautiful” the feet of those who are bringing the good news. That word beautiful (horaios) can mean flourishing, belonging to the right hour, mature, grace of movement. As Dave and I walk new missionaries through a process of being fully equipped to go to the nations, we are helping them to flourish and mature not only in their calling to the nations, but also in their walk with the Lord.
We currently have 25 missionaries who are in the process of being equipped for long-term missions. Their feet, belonging to this hour and moving with grace, are being made beautiful so that they can bring the good news to those who need to hear it. In the next five years, we are believing that 500 young men and women will be mobilized in missions. All together we, the senders, equippers and sent ones, can reap a global harvest.
The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time. Carl F.H. Henry
Back to school! We were honored to teach online with Charis Bible College students. There were almost 70 missions major students in the class!
From mission field to mission force- from the Philippines,
Rustine, recently joined Go To Nations and is now serving in Kenya!
Dave, teaching his favorite subject, fundraising. We empower our missionaries to put themselves in the position to receive what God has already prepared for them.
A big step in becoming a missionary with Go To Nations is the Timothy Internship Program . This is a 10 week boot camp that prepares you for full time missionary service in a foreign country. I call it a missionary factory. Chris and I were directors of this internship in the Philippines, Thailand, and the US. Recently I traveled to the Philippines to equip and empower Jeff Weimert and Ryan Hull to be the directors of the ...
Leaping off the Leadership Development post, I have some somewhat sad news. Chris and the kids will be leaving for the States this Saturday. They leave for Manila on Friday, and then fly onward to the States on Saturday, arriving in Baltimore around midnight (Maryland time) Saturday evening. Why is this sad? My responsibilities with the internship require me to say in Iloilo until the internship is completed. I will be returning to the States March 23. We have never been apart as a family for so long. Honestly I am very much not looking forward to being away from my family. I am not looking at this as a "break" from my kids so I can finally do some "real ministry." I am willing to fulfill my responsibilities here in Iloilo, especially as it involves training future full-time missionaries. However, I am not at all looking forward to being apart from my most favorite people in the world. The reason why Chris needs to leave for the States at this time is beca...
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