With 3,500 university age attendees and 300 plus missionaries on hand, the December
2012 World Missions Summit in Fort Worth, Texas was awesome! On December 28th-31st we attended the conference. We were invited to be host missionaries to represent the Caribbean area..
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| December 2012 World Missions Summit |
It wasn't the numbers that made this three day conference great, it was the openness and response of the young people. On Sunday morning, out of that mass assembly,
951 young people made their way to the platform (see this link) to say yes to the "Go for a year, pray about a lifetime" challenge. They went right up to the stage and shared where they felt God was asking them to go, or at least that they were committed to go wherever God would lead for a year.
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| On hand were displays dealing/w human trafficking, sex slavery, social issues. |
My eyes teared up. The missions baton was being passed on to a new generation. My mind went back to the wonderful missions chapels at Southeastern University (Lakeland, FL), where in response to a challenge to missions, I would find myself going forward and kneeling again and again in commitment to Christ. In the midst of so much materialism and self-absorption that we see abounding in society today, here was a group of representatives from the younger generation saying they were willing to sacrifice and to take up this cause of world missions. What was the cause?
There are two billion people in this world who have not heard a clear presentation on the importance of faith in Jesus Christ, because there are no Christian workers near them. Who will go to these dark regions of the world? I am convinced that man is a spiritual and emotional being,
