What a journey! I (Titus) have been working with missionaries since I
first became a Christian and went to the Wesleyan Bible Institute in 2000. The
missionaries told me their stories of how they travelled hundreds and hundreds
of miles away from home to churches to raise their own support. They told
stories that many times they had to sleep in a tent in front of peoples’ houses,
eating at McDonald’s almost every meal (just to save money), packing a lot of
snacks and drinks (just to save money), and even staying in homes with people
that they never knew or met before.
We are on that journey now! The journey of an adventure and trust with
the ALMIGHTY GOD.
Oh how I now understand that adventure! For the past couple months
since we started raising our own support to go back to Cambodia as missionaries
to start a new field for World Gospel Mission, we have been travelling quite a
lot; and of course, we experienced some of the things that I mentioned above.
Honestly, sometimes I wandered if I would wake up STILL ALIVE and BREATHING
(don’t let our hosts know this) at a strange place in a stranger’s house. Or
what if I have an accident on the road?
What if the car breaks down while I am driving? What if the food that the hosts serve us has
poison in it? What if I have to go the
bathroom (#2) immediately while I am driving, but the next exit is still 11
miles away? What if Jewel goes into
labor? Those are the feelings and fears
that frequently occurred from the moment we left the house to travel.
While driving and looking through the car window and seeing the view of
mountains, hills, lakes, rivers, trees, skies, storms, rain, sunshine, stop
lights, stop signs, deer….etc. These things have reminded me the beauty of
God’s creatures and that He is still around me. He is in the car with me. He is
in the storm with me. He is in the strange homes and places with me. He is
simply with us everywhere we go.
The Lord has been so gracious to us! He has proven Himself trustworthy
and a God who provides. We are a young couple, unexperienced in fund-raising,
unprofessional in contacting people, but the God that we believe often chooses
these kind of people to shine His Glory and to prove to the world that He could
mold the ugly brown clay into the most beautiful vase.
Many of the people and churches that we speak at do not know where
Cambodia is but once I mention that it borders with Vietnam, they all open
their big eyes and stare at me……
(To be continued)
2 Timothy 1:7
To see Christ glorified in Cambodia,
Titus, Jewel, Sophear, & Little Man
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