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I didn't think "Wanted: Workers willing to die" was a serious
request until Shephen Mbewe, YWAM's Frontier Missions
Regional Director for Mozambique asked
for construction help for the YWAM training center on the Zambezi
River.
Shephen is an evangelist, not a builder.
His passion is for the Gospel to
be heard in the thousand villages surrounding the ministry center.
The problem is this: the ministry is five days from the
nearest doctor. If a person contracts malaria (and they don't have the proper
medication with them) they must be treated within three days or face
near-certain death.
This doesn't
make a very appealing recruiting message... or does it?
In this age of political correctness, Mission Builders International is not likely to attract many volunteers willing to die. Or do we?
The truth is, there is no greater love than when one lays down his life for another. As Christians, we're asked to lay down our lives daily by the One who laid down His life for us.
Are you listening? Are you available to die today?
MBI has a hundred opportunities for service, most of which are not as remote in location or as challenging as our African brother's request. Most are safe. Some are downright comfortable. But they are not ordinary or necessarily tame. And each opportunity is a call for help in one form or another. You are welcome to come for two-weeks to three-months.
The reward for just ‘showing up' is both immediate and eternal. It can be fun and satisfying for the volunteer and incredibly encouraging to those who are served, as MBI recently experienced through a young team from Pennsylvania.
Best of all, the One whose Kingdom is built through obedience - and not sacrifice alone - receives the glory as ministries concentrate on their calling to bring the gospel of Jesus to those who have never heard.
We get to be part of the celebration, and you're invited. Come join us!
Yours in Christ,
John Briggs
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