Missions

“Missions”

When people hear the word “missions” they sometimes think of something of the sorts of Mission Impossible with Tom Cruises. The spy types of stuff. Or they think of a “mission” to stop AIDS.

The word “mission” according to the American Heritage Dictionary means, a body of persons sent to conduct negotiations or establish relations with a foreign country.

So I’m not here to talk about great movies or how to stop AIDS, I’m here to say that missions is to “establish relations” with God’s people.

So right now, I am going to talk about overseas missions, just because I have been given the opportunity to go to Rwanda. This mission trip is a short term mission trip so I will only be there for 2 weeks. So lately I have been asking my self…

What can I do in this time?

How can I bring God to these people?

Right now, I believe that God is chuckling at me right now for thinking these silly questions. So after God had his laugh, he reminded me who He was.

I am the great I am

How great is God—beyond our understanding! The number of his years is past finding out. Job 36:26

I’m not the giver of salvation. I’m nothing but a grain of sand. But realizing how small I am reminds me of how BIG our God is. So this means I can’t bring God to these people because God is already there. He has been there from the very beginning. Back when the first person laid eyes on the land of Rwanda, God was there.

God is in the trees

God is in the soil that grows the crops

God is in the water and in the sky

He is everywhere and waiting to be shown.

So back to my first question, what do I do? God is already there, so why am I needed. Just as God “hear his peoples cry” in Egypt God sent a man named Moses to stand against Pharaoh. God never left the Israelites; He was with them every back breaking day. Do you know how I know this? God saved Moses from death, and God made Moses the prince of Egypt, God had a plan for Moses from the day he was born.
So what do I do?

God has planned every moment of my life from the day I was born, and I believe that every God given opportunity is an opportunity to show Gods glory. I said earlier that God is “waiting to be shown” and what I mean by this…

We, as God’s instruments, are not giving them something, we’re showing them what God has already given to them.

We’re there to show that God is in the trees

…there to show them that God is blessing their crops

…there to show them the Love of Jesus Christ though our being.

…there to show the glory of God in the sky and the water.


Rob Bell is a founding pastor of Mars Hills and writer of the book, Velvet Elvis. I like the term he uses. Instead of Missionary, he uses the word “Tour Guide.” Like a tour guide we are going to being showing.

So in closing, God is everywhere, we’re all made into a plan that God created at the beginning of time.