Being called to the mission field
Being asked to write about how I was called to the mission
field is a question that has scared me for some time now. It has been over a month since I have
been accepted to go on the World Race and I have put this off far too
long. I think I am afraid because
there was no audible voice that said “go on the world race”, and therefore I
doubt.
I have never been given the calling to a specific place or
people to go and serve and present the gospel to, and I think the lack of an
absolute is a vice that the devil uses to separate me from the truth. The truth that Gods sovereignty is
bigger than any decision I can make.
I will graduate college in about a month and allot of people
have been asking me what it is that I am going to do. I have asked myself that same question and I could never
come up with a solid answer. Grad
school was an option, internship programs is something I considered, and
missions was something I thought allot about also. Jumping directly into the work force was something I knew I
didn’t want to do right out of college so that direction was a place I know I
didn’t want to go.
I had been looking through mission opportunities through
different organizations and none of them really resonated with me. I was sitting down to lunch with a
friend when she asked me that big question, and as I explained how I was
strongly considering taking some time and devoting myself to missions but
couldn’t really find anything that I felt strongly about, she started telling
me about AIM and the world race. I
had never heard of it before but she told me to check it out and that AIM has a
solid ministry. Another friend of
ours had been to Swaziland for several months and AIM was the organization she
went with.
I went home and googled Adventures in Missions. I came across the website and read up
on it for a while. As I read
through the world race site the only emotion I had was excitement. This was something that I wanted to
do. I still wasn’t sure if this
was what I should be investing in but as I prayed about it and read more about
it, the stronger I felt toward it.
I decided to apply not hoping for anything except for what the Lord
allowed. I prayed that the Lord
would guide me as I took steps toward what it was I thought I was being led
to. The application went through
and a few weeks after the interview I had been accepted to the World Race June
2010!
