January 16th, 2008 by
Taylor
I was recently asked to write a few words about how I came to find myself desiring to enter the mission field. I’m sure not all of you have heard this much background. It’s pretty tight and concise. I hope it will let you see a little more into our world of how we could be so crazy to do something like move to one of the most inhospitable places in the world… well, in a word, God.
I had always pictured myself making lots of money and being able to actively be a ‘sender.’ My father was a successful businessman and I never saw myself doing anything different. During my freshman year of college I participated in Perspectives, a global missions course, administered by a retired SIM missionary who is now a professor at John Brown University. I believe God had me attending this class to soften my heart to a message I would hear toward the end of that semester at school. Late in the semester I had the opportunity to hear from a group representing Mercy Ships at an evening event. As I listened to what they had done while on mission, my attention focused on one of the guys who had participated as a videographer. My degree was in media and I knew I wanted to do video production. In the midst of their sharing, I realized God turning on a light bulb in my head. I came to this realization that not all missionaries are church planters. Teachers, engineers, bankers, and nurses are just an example of the myriad of skills that are needed on the mission field. In this moment, I realized God wanted me on the mission field capturing the stories of missionaries to tell their story back to the American church. I had no idea when, where or how I would come to be a missionary, but that night I started my journey toward a life of missions.
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2 Comments »
January 19th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Good post. I can relate to some of this.
January 21st, 2008 at 7:02 pm
It’s definitely similar. I guess the main difference is buying a song individually still makes sense, while reading one chapter of a book kinda doesn’t.
Both have their appeal to own physically, music is easier to like digitally though.