Mission Anchorage: Week 5

Well, we're half way through the summer and God's works for the summer are coming to fruition. The lunch program serves as a base to get us to impact the kid's lives and begin to have important conversations with them. Each kid has a different and unique story, but the one commonality is a source of pain and hardship whether it's family problems, health problems, or social problems. Our goal at the parks is to create a safe and encouraging environment for the kids through Christ's love. They recognize this and soak up what we have to say when we speak into their lives.

One thing that God has revealed to me this summer is the importance of having an eternal perspective when living out the Great Commission. (Check out this youtube video) If I live as though eternity matters most, I will take every single opportunity I get in my short life here on earth to share with others about their own eternity. To share with the lost, how fulfilling life can be if they lived for Christ. To share with other Christians, how much I care for them and how much I want to see Christ shine through us more. To share with anyone, no matter what their walk looks like, how to better live for Christ. Since I've gained this perspective, God has blessed me with conversation after conversation that has proved to push us closer to him.

This isn't a perspective for missionaries or ministers or pastors; this is a perspective that all Christians should have no matter where God has them. I hope and pray that I maintain this perspective when I go back to my campus and to my friends and family and that I encourage others to live with the same eternal perspective.

"I assure you: An hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live."

- John 5:25

And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.

- 1 John 2:25