Missions

After a talking with my best friend about missions last night, a faint prick of nostalgia hit me as I realized this would be my first summer not going overseas for missions (or to Thailand) since the summer of 2005. I thought about all the people we had met, the friends we had made both with students and with the long-term missionaries. It's been a year but I still miss them and I still pray for them.

Asia Team

Thailand Trip #2 Team

Thailand Trip #1 Team



My two summers spent on overseas missions have really changed my life and who I am. A big part of it came from recovering from post-missions depression and regaining my pre-trip spiritual life while combining it with my missions experience. A lot of it came from tripping and stumbling during the actual mission trip and recovering, slowly but steadily, pushed back, but ready to come back stronger than before. My missions experiences have taken a long time to digest and each time I need a certain amount of time before I can understand the impact of my ministry and how God has changed my life through each trip.

What I've learned is that missions is a lifestyle. You can choose to be a missionary wherever you are. Each person is called to live a life of missions by following the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19) and this can be lived out anywhere--whether at home, at school, on campus, in the workforce, EVERYWHERE! I have been so blessed by the two past summers spent doing God's ministry abroad, because I have learned that it doesn't take an expensive flight ticket and hot, sticky conditions to be a missionary. As long as I allow God to be revealed in my words, deeds, and attitudes, I can be a missionary for Him anywhere I go.


Do I regret not going on missions this summer? Not at all. I have a lot awaiting me this summer: my practicum, Across U-hub, BASIC Fellowship, Summer CCF, RHCCC Softball (Pebbles), watercolour classes, and a whole lot of meeting up with friends. But for now, I am contentedly on mission at home with my mom and brother, who are growing more interesting as they age.



Cheers to an exciting new summer!