Missions at Home

January 2, 2009 – 10:54 PM

Greetings from Front Royal, VA. I am on a trip with my son Tyler to attend and preach at the commissioning service of our new co-workers, Herb and Wanda Taylor. This blog is a new undertaking for me. More truthfully, it is a renewed resolution to journal everyday. This year, it is a resolution that I intend to keep. So, here goes a meager effort to express what God is doing as He leads and guides each day.

What did God do today? Beginning with my Bible reading this morning, many things, but the most impacting was the conversation with our hosts for the evening, Gustavo and Carina. Gustavo and Carina are Hispanics that the Taylors lead to the Lord a couple of years ago. The conversations with them were very humbling and encouraging as they shared about their past and how God has changed their lives. God continues to change them as they are passing through several trials including health scares and financial difficulties coupled with unemployment. How refreshing to see new believers who are still as new-born babes, hungering for the pure milk of the Word (1 Peter 2:1).

Tonight’s late-night conversations over coffee have left a couple of impressions on me: First, they have grown my appreciation of Taylors. They have patiently befriended and faithfully taught many precious souls in their ministry here which is now coming to an end. Second, God has used the conversations to increase the hunger in me to see Hispanics in Lorain (where our new church plant begins on Monday) saved and discipled. Oh, May God give us many like Gustavo and Carina to see converted and radically changed. May their be hours of living room conversations, with Bible’s open, where dozens are strengthened in their new-found faith. May God use His Word exactly as Paul described it in my Bible reading this morning in 2 Thessalonians 3:1 which says, “Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, even as it is with you.”