We get to be on the front lines.
Even in our role of equipping our Ugandan counterparts to minister, we're still much more on the front lines than our sending churches.
We have the privilege of figuring out how to help that starving child and his family directly. We have the opportunity to pick up the snotty child and share dirt. We get to pray with that woman as her husband dies of AIDS. We get to choose, quite literally, if we will eat meat this week or instead feed meat to the orphans under our care.
For most of you who read my blog, you live vicariously through us. And WE get the privilege of having a very direct effect on our community, on the community that you pray for, that you give financially for, that you teach your children about.
What a blessing and immense privilege for us! I'm not saying it's easy to be on the front lines. In fact, historically, missionaries have been so moved by the desperate situations that they face, that we have created worse situations. Handing out food is not the answer. Taking in vulnerable children is not the answer. Paying a child's school fees is not the answer.
Only CHRIST is the answer for this world's brokenness. Pray for us to have wisdom when it comes to relieving physical suffering and need - that we would understand how best to proclaim Christ and his gospel!
Even in our role of equipping our Ugandan counterparts to minister, we're still much more on the front lines than our sending churches.
We have the privilege of figuring out how to help that starving child and his family directly. We have the opportunity to pick up the snotty child and share dirt. We get to pray with that woman as her husband dies of AIDS. We get to choose, quite literally, if we will eat meat this week or instead feed meat to the orphans under our care.
For most of you who read my blog, you live vicariously through us. And WE get the privilege of having a very direct effect on our community, on the community that you pray for, that you give financially for, that you teach your children about.
What a blessing and immense privilege for us! I'm not saying it's easy to be on the front lines. In fact, historically, missionaries have been so moved by the desperate situations that they face, that we have created worse situations. Handing out food is not the answer. Taking in vulnerable children is not the answer. Paying a child's school fees is not the answer.
Only CHRIST is the answer for this world's brokenness. Pray for us to have wisdom when it comes to relieving physical suffering and need - that we would understand how best to proclaim Christ and his gospel!
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