“One of the biggest ways that God worked was when we found out a previously planned ministry could not happen because of COVID. Instead, we shared the gospel with teens after school – and, that afternoon, God allowed me to lead my first person to the Lord.” James Missions Reality Panama Word of Life Bible Institute 2022
God uses missions to impact not only the countries reached, but the ones who embark on these trips and the ones who send them, as well. We got to see that firsthand, and, now that I have experienced both sides of a trip, I can tell you with utter certainty: missions changes lives. Missions Reality changes lives. Towards the end of the week, the director of Word of Life Panama passed around a contact sheet for those who were potentially interested in pursuing the Cross Cultural Internship. Out of the 31 students on our trip – many of whom had told me at the beginning of the week that they were “absolutely certain” they knew what they were doing next year – over 20 put down their phone numbers and emails. I teared up when I saw all those names on that list, and I wrote that moment down in my journal because, once more, I knew I didn’t want to forget the precious things God had done. On the very last day of our trip, I pulled my well-loved and now very beat-up travel Bible – the same one that went with me to Poland – from my backpack, and I added another place to it: Panama. It’s simply one more reminder to me that missions will always lead to life change, and our God is always with us, no matter where we go.
“Missions will always lead to life change, and our God is always with us, no matter where we go.”
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