Missions Festival

My dad emailed me a video of my pastor singing a verse and chorus of "How Great is Our God" in Spanish during the worship service. Hearing a minute's worth of my favorite Sunday of the year (Missions Festival), made me really miss home and my home church. Hearing my pastor sing really made me miss the Latino Ministry. Hearing our church worship team and congregation worshipping God in multiple languages gave me goose bumps. "Every tongue, every tribe, every people, every land giving glory, giving honor, giving praise unto the Lamb of God." That is what heaven is going to be like. This is why we do missions. This is why we tell others about Jesus. For my whole life I've loved the mission festival at church. I've loved hearing the missionaries talk about what they're doing overseas. I loved hearing about our church's vision for missions (20/20 vision). I loved singing songs in other languages and hearing John 3:16 in multiple languages. That feeling I get every year was no less when I watched a minute-long clip of my pastor singing in Spanish. Though I couldn't be at Grace for my favorite week of the year, being in Japan doing missions and serving God during that week is just as great. I am  "Livin' the Cause." I don't need to be sad I'm missing the festival because I am out doing it rather than hearing about others doing it. God brought me here at this time for a specific reason and I find great joy in that. God is good.