I first met him several
months ago, this cool guy with a shaved head. Of all the places in the
world a person can choose, he wants to go to probably the most war-torn place
in the world.
He writes, “I was
thinking…if I’m going to save one person I guess I’d like to do it in a country
where few Christians go… I said to God that I’d be happy to go to the Middle East .”
Not only that, he wants to
go to perhaps one of the hardest regions in that country.
Writing about the decision-making process, he says, “I decided to focus on a
region in … and the… region came to mind. I always felt that I would love
to go there, but thought that was more my own interest than God’s. But as
it kept coming up I realised that very, very few people want to live out in
those mountains, but I really do. From this time of searching, I came out with
a conviction that God was indeed calling me there
specifically.”
Some of you might be
thinking, "Well, he’s special, he’s different, he’s one of ‘those’
people". But it wasn’t an easy choice to make.
Later, when battling with
the idea of going he wrote, “I do not feel ready, I do not feel strong enough,
I do not feel spiritual enough, I do not feel together enough… but I know He’s
calling me.”
What drives him? He
knows that in a mountainous area of a war-torn country are a people who have
not heard about Jesus. “I feel it’s a great tragedy that they are still
unreached,” he states, “and I’m passionate about changing that fact.”
“And,” he adds, a smile on
his face, “I can’t wait to fall in love with them.”
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