I have been asked what is about missions that is so special to you? Why would you give up all that you have to live with less to help others? Let me answer this questions for everyone to know a little more about me.
I was a wreck of a person before someone shared the Truth of the Lord with me. I was so two faced and depending on who you were depended on how I acted. On one hand you had the girl who grew up in girl scouts and to her parents was a good child but there was things they never knew about, and on the other you have the girl that would pick up anyone’s unfinished cigarette and smoke it down to the filter, went to friends house that knew their parents had alcohol in the cabinets and also had a few that had weed at their houses. I cussed all the time and it did not phase me at all. I had oral sex with a few guys and the list goes on. One day (July 16, 1997 to be exact) God rescued me out of the pit I was in! At the Age of 13 if I kept up with that life style who knows if I would even be alive and make it to the Age of 31. It took a very dear friend of mine to trick me to come to her Church drama practice but see it only took God that one night to change me forever. Songs that played that night like Jesus Lover of my soul, For the sake of the Call, Champion of the Battle, In Christ Alone etc. became strong bases of my relationship with the Lord.
As I grew in the Lord and ministries from drama ministry and children’s ministry to starting a bible study in a public high school even if it only lasted 2 years. To going into Master’s Commission to working with Youth, and Worship to going on my first out of country missions trip and so they all have one thing in common. I want to reach the ones that are lost, I want to go after the one even if it takes longer or more to reach them then the ninety-nine. I want to follow Jesus where ever He leads me because His plan will always be better then mine. I want to help those in need even if it take everything I have to do so, I want the child that doesn’t know Love to know the Father’s love. I want the Widow to know that they are not alone, I want the person that was trapped in Sex trafficking that they don’t have to live the life that they have been dealt and that their value is so much that they don’t know. My treasure is not in Gold, Silver or any material thing you can find. My treasure and my greatest Joy is to see someone so Lost come to know the Father in Heaven, Someone so broken to be filled with the Love and Joy of the Lord. To see someone Turn from the ways of the world and run boldly to the thrown of Grace. Ever since I was 13 I had a heart for the Lost but that means everyone. Missions is every where and no matter when I go, where I go, as long as I am following the Lord I am Happy, Over Joyed, and Beyond Blessed that God would choose to use me in any way. I once was Lost but now I am found, was blind but now I see. EVERYONE in the WHOLE WORLD should have a chance to say that. Maybe you are not called to go around the world but you can impact the people around you everyday. I recently saw an experiment video where a child was homeless and no one even stopped to help or talk to him for 2 hours until another homeless man came along to help him. What is happening to us and our comfort zones. and some of us even have our hearts so hardened to say well it could be a scam. We want to control “our” money and hold on so tight to it like it is life or death but yet we waist it on stupid things every single day. News flash it really is God’s money and if He tells you to help a missionary or some one in need do it, You won’t lack in anything you need. We are all to be stewards of what God gives us and if the person that was given something is not a good steward they will have to face God but once you give it away because God tells you to it is no longer yours (not that it was in the first place.) This World is so desperate for change but so few are doing anything about it. If you can do something about it, if you can’t fund someone who is.
