…oN mISSIONS
October 22, 2007 by cheloyskee
Aa (my youngest sister) sent me a snail mail!!!! it is soooo good to recieve a letter via postman…and being able to read the mail through the person’s own handwriting is just comforting and therapeutic, especially today. =)
Anyways, in her letter, she wrote that she has this calling for Missions. MIssion to the UNREACHED PEOPLES GROUP of other nations.
Happy ako for her… As in.
Because i remembered myself years ago when i first decided that i want to be a missionary somewhere outside Philippines.
in one Missions seminar i attended, it showed us that in the OLD TESTAMENT, God’s plan is for ISRAEL to shine, bringing people toward itself to show God’s glory. When Israel failed to attract people to itself, God, then, commanded his disciples to GO FORTH and make disciples of all nation.
And another seminar i attended, the speaker showed us a graph, where percentages of christians, buddhist, hindu, and islam were tabulated. The figures shown in graphs were staggering. Seeing that the number of Hindus, buddhists, and Moslems are much, much higher than the numbers of Christians, is surprising and saddening at the same time..
i went home that day burdened.
i knew then that i want to be part of God’s operation to reach other people other than the people in the church that i go to in the Philippines.
i guess that’s what made me move out of my country and settle in Indonesia.
God made me into a teacher??!! (who would have thought i will love teaching?!) teaching grade 2’s for almost 5 years. i have never felt such feeling of belongingness in other places except when i am around my students.
The children,i believe, is my Mission Field. =)
i really believe that Missions and Ministries are not confined in churches alone.
Missions is where you are most influential, gifted, and where you get to have as many connections everyday and every waking moment of your life.
It could be your own family or where you work. LIike i said in my previous blog, your WORKPLACE is one of the strategic places for doing Missions. These people know you and can see you in a day to day basis. It’s the best place to shine forth…being a christian in a place where you are least expected to act CHRISTIAN. hehe.
As i was closing my sister’s letter to me, i can’t help but be happy for her.. i know that the burden that she has for the unreached peoples of other nations did not come from her own. She is, actually, the shy one among us siblings. Don’t you know that you can’t even leave her alone in a mall when she was 12??!! she will eventually cry, due to feelings of abandonment.haha
So, as i pray for her tonight, i’m sure that the Lord is already at work preparing the way for her, ‘leveling the mountains’ for her….just as how the Lord leveled the mountains for me, making straight paths, to go to INDONESIA.
(Prambanan Hindu Temple.. at night,flood lights shine heavenwards shows intricate details of the said temple giving an eerie feeling.. gave me goosebumps that night. hehe)
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Isaiah 45:2 and 3b
"I will go before you and level the mounains;
I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron…. so that you may know that I am the Lord, the God of Israel, who CALLS YOU by name.."
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