I will like to encourage all my brothers and sisters in Christ, who are not called to oversea to serve as a missionary, to consider that your immediate family, relatives, friends and colleagues who are not saved are your mission fields. Even your neighbours and the people who sat on the same bus/train/airplane as you could be your mission field.
Do not fret over not having a mission field! Your mission field, if you are not called, is right there in front of you.
Be a testimony to the people around you! Pray for the salvation of all your unsaved loved ones and reach out to them with conversations revolving around Jesus whenever you can. When you do that, you are a missionary for God, even though your mission field is the immediate surrounding around you!
Amen sis!
We need to be the church without walls
A CHURCH WITHOUT WALLS
How you long for your people to go outside the church halls,
For you desire to see a church without walls,
You want us to be where the people are sowing precious gospel seeds,
People are lost and they have so many needs.
The rich man, the poor man, the politician, the drug addict, the sick and afflicted,
They all have one thing in common at the end of the day they are not satisfied,
Deep down inside they are searching for a purpose and a reason for it all,
Many are looking for love in all the wrong places and yet we sit inside the church halls.
The lonely wish they could find someone to spend the time of day with,
The homeless man sits freezing in a corner huddled in filth,
The church folk walk on by as though they just dont care,
Many hurting people are anxious for someone to listen while their souls they bare.
But we are all right we go to meetings and conferences,
We are not like the people out there, those sinners,
But God says I have called you the church to be a witness,
I have asked you to go tell the message of good news.
I want you my sons and my daughters to be fishers of men,
It is time for you, your hard hearts to soften,
Dont hide behind those church walls its time to reach out to them,
To the broken and the hurting and tell them that I really love them.
They need to know that I care, that Jesus died for their salvation,
It does not matter where they have been or what they have done,
When they repent the blood of my son will wash away their sins,
I just long for them to know the truth of salvation.
For all mankind were made to walk with me,
I give them a choice to choose life and a new life see,
But some are still waiting to hear the message of the Gospel,
How will they know unless someone goes and tells.
So stop hiding, within those church halls,
I long for you my church to answer my call,
It is time for you to be the church without walls,
Reaching this generation, remember that you I have called.
Irene McGough 2010