Last Wednesday, we received a report from the Madagascar short-term mission team. From the beginning, this mission trip was uncertain and difficult due to political instability in the region, and even on the way back, they experienced flight cancellations. However, they were thankful to return safely after completing the entire journey.
The consistent testimony from the mission team members was their confession that “the reality in Madagascar was far more dire than we had imagined.” People living around the Akany Centre, where the missionary serves, have no food to eat and no clothes to wear. Many build makeshift shelters beside piles of garbage. It shocked us to hear that people wash in the river already polluted by garbage, relieve themselves in that same water, drink it to survive, and even collect discarded shrimp shells and heads from restaurants to boil and eat.
Yet even amid such harsh conditions, they testified that the people’s souls were remarkably bright and pure. Though one would think they would fall into despair because they have nothing, they actually receive the Gospel more purely. The praise of the children at the Akany Centre deeply moved the hearts of the mission team. Even though they must struggle just to survive another day, their eyes still held innocent joy.
The missionary said, “Before God, we cannot confidently say that our souls are cleaner than theirs.” The mission team realised that although we appear to have everything and live in abundance, we may be more sick and bound by sin than they are. Truly, while living in abundance, we remain unsatisfied and are consumed by the desire to have more—perhaps we are the ones who are spiritually sick and poor.
We are thankful that the short-term mission team, having been trained for a long time in the house churches to value each soul, was able to return with a deep understanding of the worth and purity of one soul in the mission field.
We support Missionaries HyunUk Jung, HyunOk Kang, and Yuli, who serve and love each precious soul in Madagascar. We pray that God’s love and grace will fill the missionary family as they continue to live out the realities of the mission field after the short-term team has returned.
Word of the week
On the last Sunday of October, we celebrate it as “Jesus' Win Day,” proclaiming the victory of Jesus rather than Halloween. Halloween originally began as a festival of the ancient Celts who praised death and spirits, but today it has become a culture of dressing up as ghosts and enjoying the festivities without knowing its meaning. To protect our children from the wrong culture of the world, we keep this day as “Jesus' Win Day.”
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Last Wednesday, we received a report from the Madagascar short-term mission team. From the beginning, this mission trip was uncertain and difficult due to political instability in the region, and even on the way back, they experienced flight cancellations. However, they were thankful to return safely after completing the entire journey.
The consistent testimony from the mission team members was their confession that “the reality in Madagascar was far more dire than we had imagined.” People living around the Akany Centre, where the missionary serves, have no food to eat and no clothes to wear. Many build makeshift shelters beside piles of garbage. It shocked us to hear that people wash in the river already polluted by garbage, relieve themselves in that same water, drink it to survive, and even collect discarded shrimp shells and heads from restaurants to boil and eat.
Yet even amid such harsh conditions, they testified that the people’s souls were remarkably bright and pure. Though one would think they would fall into despair because they have nothing, they actually receive the Gospel more purely. The praise of the children at the Akany Centre deeply moved the hearts of the mission team. Even though they must struggle just to survive another day, their eyes still held innocent joy.
The missionary said, “Before God, we cannot confidently say that our souls are cleaner than theirs.” The mission team realised that although we appear to have everything and live in abundance, we may be more sick and bound by sin than they are. Truly, while living in abundance, we remain unsatisfied and are consumed by the desire to have more—perhaps we are the ones who are spiritually sick and poor.
We are thankful that the short-term mission team, having been trained for a long time in the house churches to value each soul, was able to return with a deep understanding of the worth and purity of one soul in the mission field.
We support Missionaries HyunUk Jung, HyunOk Kang, and Yuli, who serve and love each precious soul in Madagascar. We pray that God’s love and grace will fill the missionary family as they continue to live out the realities of the mission field after the short-term team has returned.
Word of the week
On the last Sunday of October, we celebrate it as “Jesus' Win Day,” proclaiming the victory of Jesus rather than Halloween. Halloween originally began as a festival of the ancient Celts who praised death and spirits, but today it has become a culture of dressing up as ghosts and enjoying the festivities without knowing its meaning. To protect our children from the wrong culture of the world, we keep this day as “Jesus' Win Day.”