Why should we go on mission trips? The obvious reason is that it is the Great Commission directly from Jesus. But, wouldn't our money be better spent sending it to a missionary already serving. I mean really, what skills do I possess that would actually be helpful to anyone? Better yet, what skills do my children possess that God can use on a mission trip!
Last week Bryant had only just recently come back from a mission trip to South Asia and he reminded me why we should go on mission trips. He joked about possibly falling asleep during the service b/c of jet lag. On the contrary, I found him to be on fire! Even as he spoke about the difficulties of this particular trip like his son having to be hospitalized for severe dehydration, I could see that the trip had impacted him in a powerful way. He preached his message from Romans with even more passion than usual and he loves preaching from Romans!
Mission trips take our minds off ourselves (and mine is there a lot) and puts them on other people, other people's salvation in particular. Is there anything more important? God knows my construction skills are not great, but He can still use me. My children have less construction skills than I do but on our last trip they became friends with some of the ranch kids. These friendships I'm sure meant more to the ranch kids than any construction they could do.
I loved hearing from Bryant last week. It made me excited to go to Wear's Valley Ranch for our class trip in August. Traveling to Tennessee isn't as bad as hiking 6 miles in oppressive heat and humidity in the jungles of South Asia, but then again he wasn't traveling with 3 children in the car.
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