MT Record - Nov. 22, 2007 (Thanksgiving Special)

I am thankful for the opportunity to share with you what the LORD has recently taught me and how He called me to go on a second CSTMT this December. It was just last Thursday (11/15) that I received a phone call regarding an urgent need to form a team for a CSTMT. The team will work with the local believers in university campus outreach and evangelism before Christmas. My first reaction was it was too short a notice and I had planned otherwise. However, earlier that evening I just finished reading the book Dangerous Wonder by Michael Yaconelli on childlike faith, on knowing God, who is dangerous and good and playful, and on following Jesus with WILD ABANDON. Loving Jesus and living for Him is not always safe, neat, convenient, or well-planned, and it is not supposed to be. It is wild, dangerous, and scary at times, but fulfilling, exciting, and rewarding ever more. I decided to go on the mission trip as a small statement of my desire to follow Jesus despite all the worldly concerns. I decided to go, because I know that He is ABLE, and that the will of God will never call me where the grace of God will not sustain and provide for me. In this past week, He has already provided us a team of four so that we can go together in His name. Dear --- family, would you please pray for me and the team, for our spiritual and practical preparations, safety traveling and during the mission trip, and transformation of hearts and lives of those we will meet and ourselves? I do need to raise -- before December 9, which is only three Sundays away. It sounds wild, does not it? I suppose our Jesus is rather wild, and trustworthy. Will you prayerfully consider supporting me on the trip by giving sacrificially? Thank you!