He has chosen us
around Mar, 1996
~ God's challenge for us ~
Since believing in the Lord, Filbert had always thought of serving Him
full time. This vision had since grown within him. God also used Isaiah
42:1 to tell him to "spread the gospel to the nations". As for Iris, in
Sunday school when she read the book of Acts, she got this burden on mission.
Through participating on a missionary cruise ship and seeing some slides
from a missionary couple, she was quite sure of the Lord's will in her
life.
~ Lord, Here we are. Send Us ~
Therefore, we joined some Overseas Missionary organization training to
get to know more about being a missionary in a foreign culture. In various
training sessions, the speakers emphasized that mission is the effort of
the whole church, not any particular individual's. We even got in touch
with a missionary serving a particular cultural group, whom we planned
on reaching out to. On a monthly basis, we joined in prayer meetings, praying
particularly for this cultural group. This is because they are well known
to Christians for being hard-hearted towards the gospel.