Sending These

Last night, The Village Church had a service in which they invited their members to send out three families overseas. (I will not say the mission field because they viewed the area in which they were living as their mission field. They lived missionally here in Dallas, and knew that they were called to go overseas and live missionally there as well.) Their stories were filled with reasons as to how God called them to there respective areas (Zambia, Kenya and Guatemala) and the work that God has already started there and well as in themselves. They all were families with children, from ages 3 to 11, ready to minister to these places which they have been to previously. I pray that they will continue to use them, that right now to be sufficient for the moment because the next to hard to think about. They each expressed how hard the past month, even week, has been the hardest emotionally and spiritually, relieving themselves of the material goods they have obtained in making the Dallas area there home. The families each have a different emphasis in what they are going to be doing, orphans, medical, and building of the local church. I want to see these families defend the case of the orphan and the widow and push back the oppressor. I pray that they might take part of these in the respective countries.