Global Impact Week: Day One.

What a day! Global Impact Week here on campus is going to be amazing.
Starting with chapel this morning:
Our guest speaker was the President of a college for applied linguistics in... Texas I believe. He is part of Wycliffe Bible Translators, and has worked with them for years. Oh, and he's also from New Zealand which makes him that much more awesome. During his message I felt God say: "This is your week, Listen." I believe that God has a lot to show me this week.

This evening at 6pm there was a "Women In Missions" conference for girls in Burritt, which was so powerful. We got to mingle with the missionaries, and hear their testimonies from 6 to 7. At 7 all of them sat in the front and we all sat on the floor. The passion that was being stirred was amazing. They answered questions like: "Do you feel a strong opposition from people by being a woman in ministry?" "What event led you to become a missionary?" "What sorts of spiritual warfare have you encountered?"
It really was an awesome session, and I really felt empowered afterward because I do believe that women are supposed to be in the Ministry, and I feel that I'm going to be a part of that Ministry.

Then at 9:30 we had our floor bible study, but we had a guest speaker. Karen Platte, she works with Inter-serve which works with the 10/40 window (a missiological term referring to 10 degrees north- 40 degrees north of the Equator which are countries that do not allow openly Christian Missionaries). She spoke to us about the organization and about her testimony. She started talking about a recent tragedy within the group:
"In the past 158 years, this has been the biggest tragedy. A team of medical professionals were assembled and had been going to a remote Afghan village for the past 30 years. This team would travel by Land Rover as far as they could go and then carry the medical technology and supplies on their back to this village. The Afghan people loved them and respected them. This last time, they were there for 6 weeks and as they were walking back from the village they were ambushed. and killed. Those who were murdering them did this because they believed that they were giving out bibles. they weren't. They died innocently."
I started tearing up, but held back. For some reason the realization hit me tonight. I could very well be killed doing this. Not only that, but I could be brutally killed. Am I really willing to give up my life, and will I even do a good enough job to be considered a Martyr? (This was the spirit of fear talking as I was being attacked).
The answer to the first question is yes. This is so scary to me, as I research more about the area I will be in I realize how dangerous it can be. I'm going to take a step of faith, and forget about this fear and follow God where He leads. I said I was willing to go anywhere God would take me, so here I am.

"Take this life and use it. I'm ready."
--The Rocket Summer.