What? Why?

“Taking it wherever it goes.” – Delirious?

One cold Winter night in 2005 (I believe it was New Year’s Eve, as a matter of fact) I was meandering through a large convention center in downtown Louisville, Kentucky. I was there for an event called the World Missions Summit, and the convention center was tightly packed with missions organizations and missionaries, all of whom were practically begging all of the 4,000 students in attendance to come and work with them. That in itself was quite an experience. The words of Jesus, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few,” (Matthew 9:37) was constantly at the forefront of my mind.

At the Summit I committed to giving a year to missions, along with about 700 other students. I went to Asia. I did my year. Then I came home. That’s a whole other story, but one of the things I realized when I got back was that my job was not over.

I had always heard in church that “missions” is not just something missionaries do, that we’re all supposed to be missionaries, wherever we are – at work, at school, wherever. That finally hit home for me when I returned from having lived the life of a missionary. What I did in Asia was not something separate from the rest of my life. Rather, it was one more step in the lifelong journey that God is bringing me on.

I don’t know where this site will go, but I know God will lead me there.

~ by kdalise on April 29, 2008.