When you get on a plane and spend months with people who don’t look like you or talk like you but who welcome you in, you realize how different the world is from what they tell you in grade school. After many long months of fundraising and watching the generosity of others go towards me, and even still not being fully funded, I can’t unsee the things that I have seen.
I’m not supposed to speak in second person. But I don’t care. I’m addressing YOU. You in all your generosity and goodness and kindness. I am here by the grace of God and also by your grace. It is by no merit of my own that I get to wake up in Thailand serving people that, in some cases, have never heard the gospel. I did nothing to deserve this, and I also did nothing to deserve being born in the right place at the right time with the right kind of family and “right” skin color. I did nothing to deserve not being born into the middle of a civil war and living in a state where my home wasn’t burned to the ground.
I know Christmas is hard for many of you and I know that what I am about to ask for is bold and may come as an inconvenience or a disturbance in your budget and current plans, but I’m asking, in my attempt to be fully funded, if whatever amount you would be willing to give to me would be split in half and given to one of the organizations listed below.
This thing is about people. It’s always been about people. It’s always been a story of a loving God who wanted to just be with us, even in the middle of our greatest pain–the scandal of him wanting us even in our sin–sending his son to pay a price we couldn’t pay.
Prayers are powerful things, and to those of you who are not able to give, I challenge you to make half the time you spend praying for me, someone you know and love, and spend it praying for these strangers that I love and I know the Father loves. (I promise they’ll be just as powerful and effective as before).
If you’re wondering, I have been able to donate from my personal monthly expense budget while on the field. I wouldn’t ask for what I’m not willing to do.
To donate to help aid workers currently in Aleppo, Preemptive Love currently has feet on the ground delivering food to families, creating businesses and jobs run by refugees displaced in Iraq and other surrounding areas. They love before they fear and show up where other people can’t.
To donate to help those affected by the Tennessee Wildfires, Convoy of Hope is a faith-based, nonprofit organization with a driving passion to feed the world through children’s feeding initiatives, community outreaches and disaster response. They are consistently some of the first to respond to disasters around the world.
Finally, to donate to me, click on the link above.
“Don Miller says we’re called to hold our hands against the wounds of a broken world, to stop the bleeding. I agree so greatly.
We often ask God to show up. We pray prayers of rescue. Perhaps God would ask us to be that rescue, to be His body, to move for things that matter. He is not invisible when we come alive. I might be simple but more and more, I believe God works in love, speaks in love, is revealed in our love.”
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. If you participated in this, comment with your story! Why did you give? Is there anything I can pray with you for?
P.S. Adventures in Missions is not affiliated with these guys and I’m kinda not sure if this is allowed but I did it anyway. lol
