A part of our missional strategy at CRBC is to send people on to the field to assist our SBC missionaries around the world. As a member of the personnel committee on the IMB I have noticed that the great majority of our missionary candidates were inspired into their life calling after actually spending a short time on the field. We have already seen many of our own members make lifetime commitments after one of these trips.
Last year we had some incredible experiences in distant places like Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Turkey. The picture above was taken in the Middle East on one of our trips. A little boy broke his jaw falling from the rocks above. Our missionary ran to help help him, and in the process was able to proclaim the name of Christ to an entire Saudi Wahibi Muslim family. It was an amazing experience. Most of the family had never met Christians before. Because of her care and love for their son, she made a great impact. She asked the father of the boy if she could pray for him. He said, "how do you pray?" She said "I pray in the name of Isis (Jesus)". The man said, "we have learned about him in our Koran, you can pray in his name."
It was amazing to watch her gather this muslim family around and pray for their son in the name of Jesus.
We are already planning our short term missions trips for this next year. I am very excited about how these plans are coming together. This next year Council Road teams will go to Mexico (three times), Portugal, the Middle East, West Africa, New York City and South Asia.
I would encourage you to begin praying now about taking some vacation time and do some global missions work hands on.
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