For quite a while now, I’d say maybe almost a year, I have felt called to go on some sort of mission trip but haven’t been able to get involved with one for different reasons. At the beginning of this school year, Brad Walker, our youth pastor at church led us through a Bible study on a book called Radical by David Platt. The book is all about stepping out and being “radical” in our faith. Most of the book taught us about how as Christians we ARE called to go out and spread the Gospel, not just sit back and let whoever else do it. EVERYONE is called, and that really hit home with me since it was already something I had in my heart. A little while later, Brad brought in his wife’s sister, Bethany, who is a missionary with her husband and family in Brazil. It was really, really, really awesome to actually get to hear firsthand what a missionary does and how things work in other countries. I felt extremely inspired. So, I sent Brad a message on Facebook about how I wanted to commit to a trip and so on, and then something else happened that kind of showed God’s excitement, I guess you could say. My mom bought some cd a few months before all this, and the day after I made the decision, she found this insert in the cd case about how to get a free book about missions. I just thought it was super cool because it seemed like God was helping to confirm His will.
So now I am writing to tell you about my decision to go to Vancouver, Canada on July 7-12 to follow up on the decision I made back in August.
Before Brad came, Trinity students had a youth pastor named Jeff Philips. He and his wife, Sara, pretty much built our ministry from the ground up and invested in our lives in ways I can’t even begin to describe. However, after many years with us, Jeff and Sara felt called to go to Vancouver to start a church with some other friends and minister to the very many lost people there. There are approximately 80,000 people in the Downtown Corridor of Vancouver, yet only about 2-3% have been reached by the Gospel. (Some random facts, the population is multi-ethnic with a high population of Asian culture. There are also 150 different languages represented in Vancouver alone.) Knowing all that, you can see how big a challenge it’s going to be for Jeff and Sara and their friends to minister to these people and share how great God is with them. That’s exactly why our church has put this trip together. We are going to help them out by assisting the church’s start by helping set up for worship, promotion, and ministering to the church planters. Also, we will be starting conversations with people in the city and at the University of B.C. It all sounds really intimidating to me, but I am so excited about the trip. I know that by doing this I will not only be stepping out of my comfort zone, but I will be helping to further God’s Kingdom, and that is so exciting to me!
I hope that you will pray for me and all the other team members that go with us, especially for our safety but also that we will not shy away from what God has called us to do. Please also pray that I will be willing and unafraid to take risks and step out of my comfort zone when the opportunity arises. I am scared that I will be too afraid to talk to people about my faith, so please pray for that as well.
So now I am writing to tell you about my decision to go to Vancouver, Canada on July 7-12 to follow up on the decision I made back in August.
Before Brad came, Trinity students had a youth pastor named Jeff Philips. He and his wife, Sara, pretty much built our ministry from the ground up and invested in our lives in ways I can’t even begin to describe. However, after many years with us, Jeff and Sara felt called to go to Vancouver to start a church with some other friends and minister to the very many lost people there. There are approximately 80,000 people in the Downtown Corridor of Vancouver, yet only about 2-3% have been reached by the Gospel. (Some random facts, the population is multi-ethnic with a high population of Asian culture. There are also 150 different languages represented in Vancouver alone.) Knowing all that, you can see how big a challenge it’s going to be for Jeff and Sara and their friends to minister to these people and share how great God is with them. That’s exactly why our church has put this trip together. We are going to help them out by assisting the church’s start by helping set up for worship, promotion, and ministering to the church planters. Also, we will be starting conversations with people in the city and at the University of B.C. It all sounds really intimidating to me, but I am so excited about the trip. I know that by doing this I will not only be stepping out of my comfort zone, but I will be helping to further God’s Kingdom, and that is so exciting to me!
I hope that you will pray for me and all the other team members that go with us, especially for our safety but also that we will not shy away from what God has called us to do. Please also pray that I will be willing and unafraid to take risks and step out of my comfort zone when the opportunity arises. I am scared that I will be too afraid to talk to people about my faith, so please pray for that as well.
Obviously, I’m also going to be needing help raising the funds to go. Very roughly, the trip is going to be somewhere around $1,250.00 plus expenses for transportation in the city. (It includes: hotel, airline ticket, meals, and passport.) If there is any way you could help out monetarily, any amount at all, it would be greatly appreciated because this is a huge opportunity to go out and minister.
So, if you would like to donate, email me at angelface8447@yahoo.com, and I will you send you the details!
Thank you!
Love,
Meghan
