Mission: Get on it!

Mission takes on many different faces in our world.  Gone are the days when missionaries were just some older folks that a church sent off to a foreign land to live among the natives.  Gone are the days where being a missionary meant you were gone for months and years at a time. 

Welcome to the age of effective short term missions.  And all those different mission works, as I said, take on many different faces.  Some that seem traditional, and others that may seem a little less conventional, but still bear a ton of fruit.

Both Franny and I come from a background of a church that offered us the marvelous opportunity to go on mission trips as teenagers.  El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico  Still very much missionaries. 

and Russia were some of the places we went as teens and now more than 25 years later, we are still very much mission minded.

In case you didn’t know, Franny (and this is not the official wording of this) is a Church Planting Missionary on the Russia team with e3Partners.  She is a missionary full time to the Russian people.  She doesn’t live there and we are not moving.  But she spends the bulk of her time here in America talking to people about missions, mobilizing teams to go to places in Russia, and encouraging and training those who sign up to go.  It is a full time job.  And she needs financial support to do that.  Monthly financial support.  Every month.   Not just when there is a trip.  But every month.  If you are inclined to support missionaries because you believe in the work of the gospel, please message Franny here on this blog and she’ll get back to you.

As I mentioned, she and by default we, mobilize teams to go on trips.  She has her trips she leads through e3Partners and I have other trips that I will soon begin mobilizing for other locations, mostly here within the United States which seem to work well for youth groups and teens.  As well as taking teams into Mexico for outreach and service.  If you know someone who may be interested in any of that, please message us here on the blog.

I just returned from a men’s service trip to Puerto Peñasco, Sonora Mexico.  We had the amazing opportunity to meet some very real physical needs for some lovely church folks who needed some help.  They needed to see the love of the Father as well as being encouraged and lifted up as best as we could.  It was only a few days but it was as hard as any mission work I’ve ever done, just in a different way.  Again, a different face of mission work.  And it was good.

All this to say, YOU are called to participate in mission work.  Every last person who reads this and even those who don’t  We are commanded by Jesus to go unto all the world.  For some it’s the ability to financially support missionaries and mission teams.  For others its being on one of those teams.  Don’t think you are too old, as the team I was on that went to a Middle Eastern country had a sweet saint who was well into her 80’s evangelizing the streets with us.  Don’t say you are too young as I have seen children reach out to other children and even adults with the Gospel.

I strongly encourage you to prayerfully consider how you will do and be on mission for God.  Have any questions or don’t know where or how to start? Again, message Franny and I right here on the blog and we will get you some more information.

Thanks for #LivingLowry with us.