A couple of weeks ago, I went to Colombia, Ohio for the International Conference on Missions or ICOM for short and it was absolutely amazing. I was able to help promote Show Me Christian Youth Home, which is the home I grew up in and also meet many different ministries around te world. The best part to me was seeing the magnitude of different ministries and what all they were doing. There was a sewing ministry from Indiana who used old torn cloths and sheets to create new cloths for children in Haiti. There was a ministry from Zimbabwe talking about how because of the caring hearts of people in America, children were getting to go to school and being feed. A ministry from Fort Thompson, South Dakota spoke on how they are ministering on a Native American reservation in the poorest county in the United States and how God was moving. I took a look at all that was going on and it just made me smile to see the body of Christ at work. I get disapointed at times with how the church can be so stationary in ministering to the lost, but ICOM showed me how God is moving not only in the United States, but around the world.
12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by[c] one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
15 Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 18 But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. 19 If they were all one part, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” 22 On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 24 while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. 26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. 28 And God has placed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues. 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? 30 Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues[d]? Do all interpret? 31 Now eagerly desire the greater gifts. 1 Corinthians 12:12-30
God is moving around the world and it excites me so much. I can not wait to have the oppurtunity to minister with the world race in these 11 countries. I will get to do what the body was meant to do which was to share the Gospel around the world and the body will be in action.
I am at $2,000 right now on my funds and need so God is giving people a heart to give. I am completely blessed by this. I still need to get to 3,500 by march and 8,500 by next July. Prayer for this process would be amazing and if you feel God has layed it on your heart to give, I would be even more greatful. Anything you give before the end of the year is also a tax write off so theres that as well. Continue Praying for me as I continue this Journey. I love you all.
