Acts 22:21 (NAS) “And He said to me, ‘Go! For I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’” I wonder if Paul at that moment really understood what God had in mind for him? Many years ago while I was still in school one of my instructors came to me and said “I want to talk to you about doing mission work.” My reply was something along the line of I was not interested in mission work.
Over the next two years Bob never gave up on me. Every chance he had he would talk about mission work. I had other plans. I wanted to go somewhere and become a great and powerful speaker. How wrong I was. I did graduate and began looking for a church to employ me. After seven months of looking, the only offer was to go to a stateside mission point and start a congregation. Ava, the girls, and I went, and we stayed at that location for ten years.
We left for a work at an established congregation. Within a year I was on my way to Ukraine for a mission trip that I felt would help me in my local work. What I had not planned on was falling in love with the people of Ukraine. In 1996 I made a mission trip to Mexico and found more brethren to love.
Late at night I think of Bob; he left the school and returned to mission work in the Philippines and will most likely end his days on this planet there. When thinking of him, I ask God to bless him for stirring my heart to go into all the world. Four trips to Mexico, twelve trips to Ukraine and ten years in French Catholic Louisiana are not enough.
God willing, the year 2011 will find me once again in Ukraine teaching the lost and training preachers for the struggling congregations there. In 2012, Lord willing, I will travel to the Bahamas to assist David Caskey with his work there. I’m praying God will allow me to go until He takes me home.
Acts 22:21 (NAS) “And He said to me, ‘Go! For I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”