“A missionary’s journey: He opened my eyes” – part 4 of 4

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Today I am a full-time missionary with CAPRO missions agency (Calvary Ministries). This African missions agency provided me with a two-year opportunity to be trained for missions cross-culturally and gain some field experience. The Great Commission is for all disciples, and the task of world evangelization is for the whole church. However, God will set apart some amongst us into the position of representing the mandate of the Kingdom, where the Church is not.

The heart of missionary work is to mobilize all human activity and ministries of the body of Christ towards the evangelization of peoples, languages and tribes where the Gospel of Jesus Christ as not gained a foothold. I completed my time of training, and the Lord spoke to me in various ways that I should return to my home country because he is raising an army that will go and march into the frontlines of the unreached.

At first, I felt saddened and disappointed that God was not directing me to dedicate my life to go where the labourers are few, and the harvest is plenteous. However, it is then I understood that God was not only focused on what He can do through me as an individual, but what he wants to achieve through the lives of many disciples back home who are like me. He opened my eyes to the reality that, as much as there is a need for labourers for the ripe harvest fields, there is equally a need for those who will raise and mobilize these labourers.

Buti Sam Kputu says, missions mobilization means “to spur God’s people and gather God’s resources in order to accelerate and accomplish the Great Commission.” For God to send out these labourers into the fields, he assigns others to go sound the alarm and blow the trumpet, to warn many believers of a wasting opportunity in the nations, and announce that God is assembling the body of Christ to pray, give and go with the gospel into every part of the world. There are missionaries in the frontlines amongst the unreached nations, and there are missionaries at the homebase, serving the Church through teaching sound doctrine, modelling disciple-making, mobilizing revival prayer, advocating for Church unity, and being involved in raising labourers and resources for the advancements of missions.

It has become my assignment for these past years to do so. Through the financial support and gifts of Christian partners and friends, God supplies for the needs of the work and workers. The vision we have from the Lord about Africa founded on Matthew 28:19-20 is that, with the revival and discipleship of the African Church, we will see countless local churches across the land raise and send out their own cross-cultural missionaries far and wide. What is impossible with God? … nothing is.

God is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us (Eph 3:20, ESV).