Once upon a time, there was a young princess studying at a Christian college who wanted to be a missionary. She majored in Intercultural Studies. She prayed, she dreamed, and she worked toward going overseas. One day, a dashing messenger from Kontaktmission USA came to visit her school. He talked about the opportunity to go to kingdoms in Europe far away and serve God on a short-term missionary journey. The princess jumped at the chance to go and get a taste of what it would be like in that land. It was a wonderful experience, and she wanted to go again for her internship. She knew God was calling her to missions in the kingdom called Deutschland (that’s Germany in English). She even stopped dating the nice young prince she was seeing back home, because he didn’t think God was calling him to missions. After her internship and graduation, she raised support, married a German Prince and is living happily ever after as a missionary…and Lydia Schäfer is now serving in Deutschland with Kontaktmission. Fairy tales can come true!
Our goal in sending people on mission trips is to fan into flame a passion God has given them for missions. The hope is that those who go will: 1) end up in a host country as missionaries or 2) become life-long supporters of missions. When we send out “tripsters,” our prayer is that it will be but an early step on the path that will take them into long-term service overseas. Please pray with us that those we send will be ones God is speaking to about going permanently. Pray that their experiences will continue to move them toward their calling. Pray we will be effective in sending workers into the harvest fields!
Prayer: Father, we lift up our tripsters, those who will be on short-term trips this year. Please guide their hearts and be in their support raising. Speak to them through Your Word, Your Spirit, and Your People. Help KM to work hard to provide powerful opportunities, and we ask You to provide good works for the tripsters to walk in, which You prepare beforehand. We pray that You will use us to send more workers into Your harvest fields.
