Isn't All a Little Much?

After the resurrection, Jesus met with His disciples and gave them their first instructions, "As the Father has sent me, I am sending you." (John 20:21) Later, Jesus reappeared to His disciples and gave them more detailed instructions concerning their mission when He said, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to to all creation." (Mk 16:15)

Did He just use "all" twice in one sentence? I can understand "all" when it's something I can see or touch, like "you spent it all?" But this one is a bit more difficult to wrap my mind around. When Jesus talks about "all the world" that makes it a global command for the more than 16,000 people groups spread throughout the earth. But the use of  "all creation" has in view every person.

Sent...into all the world...to preach the good news...to everyone. Is Jesus serious? Does He realize how many people that encompasses? The most recent population estimate in unreached people groups from the Joshua Project is 2.77 billion. That's a lot of people.

Sent...into all the world...to preach the good news...to everyone. Is Jesus serious? Yes, He is! Are we?

Construction has begun

The new Children's Home construction is coming along well. We still need about $35,000 to complete the project. If you would like to help provide hope and a new life for abandoned children please Donate Now. We will keep you updated as progress is made.

You can also sponsor a needy child for only $30 a month. This will provide food, medical care, an education, and clothing. You can choose a child and begin the sponsorship with just the click of a button at our website.

We're starting to fill up for next spring's mission trips already. If you would like to experience firsthand how God is working among the people of India please check out our mission trips scheduled for next year.

Prayer Points:
Continue  to pray for God's provision to complete the new Children's Home
For workers for the harvest
That hearts would be open to the preaching of the gospel



Pray for the Adaviar of India

Pop: 80

World pop: 80                                                          
Main Language: Tamil
Main Religion: Hinduism
Bible: Complete
Status: Least-Reached
Christ-Followers: Few, less than 2% 

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Home safely.  Yet where is our home? 

God saved my life in south India just two weeks ago.  Now I'm back recovering in clean, quiet Stillwater Oklahoma where tap water is potable, mosquitos don't carry ten forms of death, and sewage is whisked away underground and out of sight.  There are no garbage heaps along the streets with pigs, chickens and ragged children looking through it for something to eat.  We Americans think Stillwater is the norm.  It isn't. 

Most of the world struggles every day for a meal and prays for a safe, dry place to sleep.  While we worry about mowing our perfect lawns, most people have a patch of dirt to eat, sleep and live on.  The water we flush down our drains is cleaner than what most children of the world drink. 

Isn't our home in the center of our Father's heart?  When Jesus said "I come to preach the Gospel to the poor..." isn't that where we should be?  I dare you to listen clearly to Jesus' call:  Leave your comfort, come, and follow Me.  He will take you to places that seem uncomfortable from afar, places you dread to go, but when you actually get there, God is already there--and you are HOME.