Peru Mission Trip: Missionaries

Today's blog will be short-ish and not very deep, as I realize the last few have been as well. Our schedules have been so packed, the internet so spotty, and my brain so frazzled from the days, that it has been pretty hard to write.

Today's challenges were just that, challenging. And I don't really feel it's the time to jump into the details of it.

But I do want to mention a conversation I had with a young man on our way home. One of our translators was a young man who, I don't know if he wants his name revealed or not so I won't say it, but he seemed like a nice kid. I'm calling a 26 year old a kid, man I am acting old.

On our way home I wanted to just ask how I could pray for him, being as I'm thinking I may not see him again, at least not anytime soon.

And he wanted me to pray for his schooling (among other things), and over the course of the day he had mentioned that he wants to be a missionary.

I'll admit, my American arrogance probably showed some, at least in my own thoughts. Of course Americans send missionaries overseas to other nations, but those nations? Surely they don't do that. And yet here is this Peruvian boy from the Amazon desiring to do just that. I really hate the ignorance that this trip has revealed in me.

But it's not just him. Another of our translators is also working towards missions, and a couple young ladies in our own group seem to desire to do that kind of work.

My point is, is that it's pretty encouraging to see people desiring to spread the gospel both at home and abroad. We so desperately need it.

Of course that is part of our groups mission here as well. But one visit, with one small group, isn't going to be the be-all-end-all. We need more and more workers, for the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few (Matthew 9:37).

There was so much more to this day, and perhaps in a later blog I'll share some of that, but in the meantime, once again time has caught up, and it's time for some sleep. One more day of work here, and may God bless it and use it for His glory and His purposes.