From the Trenches #2 – The Backyard Missionary

This past summer, I felt a pull toward world missions. I want the world to know Jesus and love Jesus and worship Jesus and be transformed by Jesus. I began to see that how God has shaped me would make living across the world in a different culture the perfect place for me. This might be a possibility in the future. Only God knows. Nevertheless, cross-cultural ministry is not a future venture for me. I looked around at the people at tutoring on Tuesday, at the people around my table at the awards banquet for the local high school’s marching band, at the people at the store ran by the aunt of one of my youth group kids. What did I see? The only other white person was another youth leader. Most of the peeps I was with speak another language than English at home. Some of them are Muslim. I am a missionary today to the people of Sierra Leone in Wyoming, Michigan. If God has prepared me for world missions someday, you can bet He has prepared me for this moment.