The mission trip was indescribable. Each town we stopped in brought more eyes hurting, desperate, empty, and hungry for Christ. The blitz team dove into a country full of abused children, broken families, and demonic activity. A county where you can find lost souls around every corner. A place where there’s children who don’t know the song Jesus loves me, that Jesus really loves them, or that God wants to save them not destroy them. This is my mission field. God has called me to this mission field and that is where I’m going. {America.}
We seem to over look the fact that the country right here is lost. LOST. Going straight to the pits of Hell, and yet we tend to look down on those God calls to America saying, “Well, you’re not really a missionary if you’re not called to a foreign country.” Hog wash. God is calling me to the places in America where no one wants to go. I want to charge Hell with a water gun! It’s not anything we said that saved these people, it was God convicting their hearts. We weren’t doing this for us, or the couple who were taking us to these places we were doing it for God. We weren’t getting paid, we volunteered. This is what I’m called to do and I know God will supply all I need. Phlippians 4:19 “But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” (Matthew 6:33 “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Mat 6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”)You know a lot of the blitz team could have been home this Summer making money, going swimming, and taking it easy after being in school. But, they didn’t. They knew God had a bigger mission for them and they yielded to God’s burden to win souls to Him. Some of them quit their jobs to spend their summer spreading the gospel of Christ. We sometimes let job security get in the road of what God wants us to do and try to make a safety net for ourselves. It’s not our job to do that. Money is not our security. God will supply.
{God is our safety net.}
The blitz team has a mission this Summer. A mission to reach as many people as we can. We’ve been doing bible clubs for 4 weeks now and we’ve had 117 bible clubs, 3085 kids enrolled, and 963 people saved. That’s not including the bible clubs we had the week of SMITE, where we had 382 kids saved. We were also able to give away about 900 bibles. {God supplied.}
Our first week on Blitz we were in Hattiesburg Mississippi, and one of the places my team was going to do a bible club was this trailer park. This wasn’t just a trailer park. This trailer park needed to be condemned 5 times over. People were still living there though. Children were there. That’s why we go. Because even though you may be able to smell the liquor on the parents, or that there’re on drugs, the kids are hungry for God’s word.
You could see in the eyes of the children we got to know that they needed the kind of love that they never get. Christ like love. Through those eye I saw emptiness, joy, sorrow, relief, anger, and hurt. I only pray that they saw only Jesus through ours. (Matthew 5:16 “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”)
God will supply.
In Mississippi we were doing a bible club at a children’s home where we had 29 15 - 19 year old boys and girls. That was different because I’m use to having bible clubs for kids that are a lot younger. But, that was one of my favorite clubs out of the whole month. A 17 year old girl who was 5 months pregnant accepted Christ along with 4 other young adults. You could see the hurt in these kids eye, the longing for something better.
I was also told that week by a girl who had just turned 17, “You’re focusing too much on Christ. You’re only just turning 18 you have your whole life ahead of me. You can do whatever you want. You’re worshipping God and that’s great, but He wants you to have fun.” I tried to explain that serving God was the most amazing thing you could ever do. Serving Christ is seriously the most fun I ever have. (Deuteronomy 30:16 “In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.” Deuteronomy 30:20 “That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”) She didn’t understand it though. That week I was so nervous about doing a bible club for teenagers and afraid I wouldn’t have the words to say. God supplied.
{God’s work, done in God’s way, never lacks God’s supply.}
This is my mission field. This is where God is calling me, and until He changes that, this is where I’ll serve. I’m praying God will open up the doors for me to go into full time ministry. But, until then my next stop is New Orleans with the Blitz team. I leave next Friday, my birthday. I can’t imagine a more awesome way to spend my birthday. I ask that everyone prays for us as we go out to do more bible clubs in New Orleans.
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