The Missions Conference
Wow! This week has been great! The emphasis on world evangelization!
At Grace we all ask the Lord to direct us to give a certain amount weekly to missions. Pastor adds those totals up and we see how much we are commiting for the year to foreign missions. This is over and above the tithes. Well, our goal for this year was $120,000. Last night he announced that there was $129,000+ pledged! It is so wonderful to be involved in world missions and the best place money could ever be invested! You don't have any doubts when you give to missions as to whether or not the Lord is pleased.
It has been years since I have been a part of a church with as much interest in missions as Grace has. We never had a missions conference back in Indiana where many missionaries come in for the week and share their works. It was seldom a missionary spoke at the main service. But here it is a big focus, and it really stirs your heart to reach the world for Christ. We ate with these missionaries and laughed with them, got to know their kids, and heard about their works - basically communed together for the week, and it was good.
God is so GOOD to give us His family.
I love all of you.
At Grace we all ask the Lord to direct us to give a certain amount weekly to missions. Pastor adds those totals up and we see how much we are commiting for the year to foreign missions. This is over and above the tithes. Well, our goal for this year was $120,000. Last night he announced that there was $129,000+ pledged! It is so wonderful to be involved in world missions and the best place money could ever be invested! You don't have any doubts when you give to missions as to whether or not the Lord is pleased.
It has been years since I have been a part of a church with as much interest in missions as Grace has. We never had a missions conference back in Indiana where many missionaries come in for the week and share their works. It was seldom a missionary spoke at the main service. But here it is a big focus, and it really stirs your heart to reach the world for Christ. We ate with these missionaries and laughed with them, got to know their kids, and heard about their works - basically communed together for the week, and it was good.
God is so GOOD to give us His family.
I love all of you.
posted by La Profesora at 2/27/2006 01:59:00 PM
7 Comments:
hey..i commented on the previous post in spanglish..don't know how good it was, but yeah..just thought i'd let you know so you can see how far i've progressed(yeah right) or decreased (more than likey) in my spnaish skills. catch ya later.
Joe, your Spanish is good - only a couple minor errors. So what are you going to do with this language??????? Hey, did I hear you are going to Brazil this summer?
He is. I was going to. Instead, we're going to Africa. I think it's a fair trade. :)
ya... I only got to go to some of the services... btw... I might have to take up that offer of spending the night at your house for nationals. Think u can email me and work it out???
Brenda, the Missions Conference was great. One of the best I have ever been to. The preaching was awesome. You can't help but thinking, after watching the presentations...I want to go, I want to go. We have to encourage our young people not to saddle themselves with baggage from the world so that when the Lord does speak to them, they can be ready to go! I'm excited to see how the Lord will use this conference in their lives. C U soon.
hey, thanx for the encouragement, prof. i'll be sure to keep that in mind.
La Profesora,
Do you have an e-mail address? I might like to share some thoughts with you from time to time.
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