Welcome to my missions blog. I had the idea that I wanted to start a blog about the whole process of becoming a missionary, raising support and actually going out to the field, and that’s what this is going to be. It’s a little late since I’m not exactly at the very begining here (but very close to it). I’ve already filled my application out, been invited to SEND’s Candidate Orientation program in Michigan, taken a bunch of tests, and been interviewed by their panel, and got accepted as a missionary apointee. I wrote about some of that on my other blog, which you can check out if you like. Anyways all that leads up to now. Now I’m in the dreaded support raising process. Just barely starting there.
But the idea here is that I’ll be updating at least once a week with my progress, just talking about what I did the last week to get to Japan. This will keep me accountable and you guys informed. I’ll try to make it as interesting as possible.
So for my first entry, here’s what I did this last week. No really, here it is. You’re looking at it right now. I made a website. That’s been most of it. I also had my monthly phone call with my support coach, Leigh, in which I told him all the things I would do in this coming month (yes, I tell him what I’m going to do, and I tell you all what I have done. Doub;e the accountability there). I could tell you about all the plans I’ve got for this month, but that would ruin the surprise, and give me less to write about in future posts. So I’ll leave you with one last thought before this gets too long and you stop reading.
I’ve been reading through Acts in my morning devotions for awhile now, and I always pay special attention to Paul, whenever he comes into the picture, since he’s pretty much my hero. Paul was the greatest missionary ever, so I look to him to get some points on how to be a great missionary, and try to just imitate what he did. And one of the things that he did was he included lots of people in his ministry. I mean, just look at the end of just about any of his letters. There’s almost always a long list of people he credits as helping him, or people he’s thanking, or greeting. Paul was not into soloing. He had many partners. Me I tend to be naturally anti-social to a degree, and like to do things on my own. But that’s not going to get me anywhere. So if I’m going to be a missionary, I want to include others in my ministry, like Paul did. And this website will hopefully be a part of that. We’ll see how it goes.