K this is going to be another one of those long posts... lol so much goes on, but I cannot seem to update it everyday. If you are interested in where God has called me to go this summer, read on...
I have always felt like I was one to stay in the states and be the person sending people on missions trips. God confirmed this with me about 2 weeks ago on a Wednesday night service down here during and after the message on doing our role in being a Christian. Everyone has a part to play, -- there are "senders", "goers", "intercessors", "mobilizers", and "greeters". David Hasz went into detail of each of the details and how we are all called to one of these and we need to ask God what are part is to play in the great commission... I know I am called to be a sender and I know I will be going too... but man things are unfolding in my heart that I never knew was there.
Before this service I kept thinking this summer I would be going to a really cool place far away like Australia or New Zealand since I would only get an opportunity like this one time in my life. As I kept trying to pursue one of these countries I just did not feel peace with them.
I was praying for direction and kept feeling like New York was the place God wanted me to go. I kept thinking to myself, no way I am not going to stay in the U.S. where the gospel is preached so freely... but man oh man that thinking is a bit selfish. After much thought, contemplation, and praying I went to go fill out my application (they were due really soon for this summer) and God then showed me to do both New York and Jamaica this summer since they were both 2 week long trips and we are allowed 4 weeks for Mission Trips here in the summer. This is not a very common thing to do here, but I felt total peace with it. The total cost of these 2 trips cost just under the price of going to Australia and New Zealand too! (about $3,800) Man, after I submitted my application for these trips I felt so much peace and excitement but was not sure they would both get approved because of space and the uncommoness of it all. I just figured God would work it out and I did not think about it again.
Until...
Yesterday we had an awesome chapel speaker that was really hardcore and made us all feel like selfish naive Americans (which in essence, we are sadly), but this guy devotes his entire life ministering from the ghettos of America to the garbage dumps of Manila to the sexual slave trade in Thailand. He lives in the ghetto of New York and has been beaten, stabbed and shot in the face. He has tasted death and experienced it and he really opened my eyes just to how sheltered I am, and how so many people need love and get looked past. It was during this chapel God spoke to me about New York again and I knew I was supposed to go to New York. I need to share God's love with the hopeless children in Brooklyn’s projects. I need to love the children and teens that call abandoned buildings their home, face a future of drugs, addictions, prison, abandonment, and even death. I will be joining the guy that spoke in chapel and live where he currently lives... everyday. Wow.
Today, I got the email that I am accepted to both of these trips!!! Man, God is good... He confirmed it so many times and now I am going to go, and I know He is going to provide!!! Ahhh I never thought I could be this excited for a missions trip!
I have always felt like I was one to stay in the states and be the person sending people on missions trips. God confirmed this with me about 2 weeks ago on a Wednesday night service down here during and after the message on doing our role in being a Christian. Everyone has a part to play, -- there are "senders", "goers", "intercessors", "mobilizers", and "greeters". David Hasz went into detail of each of the details and how we are all called to one of these and we need to ask God what are part is to play in the great commission... I know I am called to be a sender and I know I will be going too... but man things are unfolding in my heart that I never knew was there.
Before this service I kept thinking this summer I would be going to a really cool place far away like Australia or New Zealand since I would only get an opportunity like this one time in my life. As I kept trying to pursue one of these countries I just did not feel peace with them.
I was praying for direction and kept feeling like New York was the place God wanted me to go. I kept thinking to myself, no way I am not going to stay in the U.S. where the gospel is preached so freely... but man oh man that thinking is a bit selfish. After much thought, contemplation, and praying I went to go fill out my application (they were due really soon for this summer) and God then showed me to do both New York and Jamaica this summer since they were both 2 week long trips and we are allowed 4 weeks for Mission Trips here in the summer. This is not a very common thing to do here, but I felt total peace with it. The total cost of these 2 trips cost just under the price of going to Australia and New Zealand too! (about $3,800) Man, after I submitted my application for these trips I felt so much peace and excitement but was not sure they would both get approved because of space and the uncommoness of it all. I just figured God would work it out and I did not think about it again.
Until...
Yesterday we had an awesome chapel speaker that was really hardcore and made us all feel like selfish naive Americans (which in essence, we are sadly), but this guy devotes his entire life ministering from the ghettos of America to the garbage dumps of Manila to the sexual slave trade in Thailand. He lives in the ghetto of New York and has been beaten, stabbed and shot in the face. He has tasted death and experienced it and he really opened my eyes just to how sheltered I am, and how so many people need love and get looked past. It was during this chapel God spoke to me about New York again and I knew I was supposed to go to New York. I need to share God's love with the hopeless children in Brooklyn’s projects. I need to love the children and teens that call abandoned buildings their home, face a future of drugs, addictions, prison, abandonment, and even death. I will be joining the guy that spoke in chapel and live where he currently lives... everyday. Wow.
Today, I got the email that I am accepted to both of these trips!!! Man, God is good... He confirmed it so many times and now I am going to go, and I know He is going to provide!!! Ahhh I never thought I could be this excited for a missions trip!
6 comments:
Sarah, that is so awesome. I think that will be such an amazing experience to share God's love with those people in New York. Can't wait to hear about it.
I love that! I LOVE it when people are excited about missions! God's heart is for the nations/the people who don't know. It's so cool how God can use us, beyond what we ever thought! I am learing to never limit what I think God is going to do through me and tell me to do. It's always outside of the box I've created for my life! I love hearing about how you are expanding your vision to let God pour through your life!
How awesome for you! I am so proud that you followed God's leading and signed up (even though you weren't sure) and I know He'll show you even more when you get there the reason(s) why He wanted you to go to both places. I believe with you for ALL of the finances to come in QUICKLY for both trips! I'm praying for you! :)
How cool Sarah! Just a few weeks ago at our church we had Marivic Quiazon who is from the Philipines but is a missionary to North Korea, I was so moved when she ministered. What a work we still have yet to do! She was saying how the people in NK are prisoners in their own land, killed, beaten, and put in concentration camps for the Bible or being a Christian. So the term CHRISTIAN to them is REAL, it means their life.....
God was showing me how blessed we really are to know the truth and be able to live it out FREELY! How much more bold should we be in the USA to tell others about Him?? Our freedom is something that we should not take lightly!
I am so excited for these trips Sarah! God is going to use you in a great way to be HIS hands, HIS feet, HIS voice! We love you, and remember who God calls He equips (that's financially too!) :O)
Wow Sarah it is exciting. At the same time you have me thinking about your choice. Im trusting God with you.You are my sugar.love you
Your blog is yelling for an update. It's saying, "ooh, ooh, update me! Update me. Pleeeeeeeease!"
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