Upcoming Youth Rally!

  MILLER TO SHARE STORIES OF ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS

By Dayna M. Reidenouer 

Willow Street resident Becky Miller is passionate
about her relationship with Jesus Christ. That passion took her on an
11-month trip around the world in 2008 with the World Race, a program
of Adventures in Missions. On Wednesday, May 20, from 7 to 8:30 p.m.,
Miller will give a multimedia presentation about her travels, the work
she did, the relationships she built, and her desire to live for Jesus
Christ to area youths in the Family Life Center of Refton Brethren in
Christ Church, 110 Church St., Refton.

“I believe
that young people need to hear what Becky has to say for them to
realize that God is still alive, that he still works on their behalf,
that he still cares for them, and he loves them,” commented associate
pastor David McAdams.

Participating in the World
Race, which involved living out of a 30-pound backpack, working with
earthquake victims in Peru and leprosy patients in India, serving in
orphanages in several countries, and sharing the Gospel in Thailand,
was the catalyst that changed Miller from a believer to a follower of
Jesus Christ. Through illnesses she and her teammates suffered, meals
of guinea pigs and fried slugs, and even robbery at gunpoint in South
Africa, Miller’s faith was strengthened.

“God
has so much grace for us that in the midst of our sin, he still proves
that he is mighty and loves us the same, regardless,” Miller remarked.

Miller
graduated from Lampeter-Strasburg High School in 2003 and attended
Shippensburg University, from which she graduated in 2007 with a degree
in Spanish and teaching certification. Since returning from her trip,
Miller has substitute taught in various districts, but mostly in
Lampeter-Strasburg and Solanco. She volunteers as the
Lampeter-Strasburg middle school girls’ soccer coach. Later this year,
she plans to complete a six-month term at the G42 Leadership Academy in
Mijas Pueblo, Spain, to continue developing the Christian discipleship
skills and spiritual growth she experienced on the World Race.

Eventually,
Miller would like to return to Thailand. During her stay in that
country last year, she and her teammates built relationships with
several prostitutes, offering them opportunities to escape from that
lifestyle. She also taught English in a local school, seeing firsthand
how illiteracy and a lack of education contributed to women turning to
prostitution as their only means to support themselves.

Miller
is also considering returning to Lancaster County after studying in
Spain to establish a discipleship program for teenage girls. They would
meet once a week during the school year to study God’s Word and develop
their faith, and then spend about six weeks in missions during the
summer.

“(We need to) build up a generation
willing to set aside themselves and stand up for Jesus,” Miller said.
“It doesn’t take leaving the country and living out of a backpack to be
a missionary. The big thing is that love really changes people. It
sounds cliché, but love changes things.”