Wherever He leads I'll go! Following after God

This week at the seminary I am going to they are having an International Church Planting Week.  Missionaries from Sub-Saharan Africa are going to be here during the week and talking to students about serving in different locations there.

I was able to see a couple of my heroes in the faith for the first time in a while.  I had first felt called to go overseas to Africa was when I had heard the story and testimony of a young man named Jeremiah Johnson.  Dr. David Johnson was the interim pastor at my church in Arizona and he talked about his son Jeremiah Johnson who went overseas to Mozambique.  Listening to his life and and the struggles he had went through reminded me so much of my life and the struggles I had gone through.  It made me realize there would be no greater and better way to finish one's life then to do it by sharing the gospel with another person.  Jeremiah Johnson was killed on a motorcycle accident in Mozambique after he had been in a village there sharing the gospel.  His life impacted and continues to impact so many people for the gospel!  There is no greater way to live one's life than to have an impact on the lives of others for the gospel!  I met with the Dina's was able to talk to them about Africa and my desire to go there.  They gave me a fan and a small bag from Moz and prayed for me.  They are a really sweet couple and I am thankful to have met them.  I don't know if God will ever have me work with them but I know wherever He leads I will go!  I know I will always remember and be thankful that God brought them into my life!

Tonight at the seminary they had missions information night.  It was really good to be there and to meet the different missionaries there.  It also brought back memories from my application process with the board and all the the things that went on there and the struggles that went on in my life during that time.  At that time I wanted nothing else than to go with the Board.  It was my desire and what I believed God wanted me to do and I was willing to do anything to do that. I was passionate about and am still passionate about evangelism and discipleship.  It didn't end up working out  for me to go with them.  It might have been that it wasn't God's timing.  It also might have been that there were some more things that God had wanted to teach me and that He wants to teach me.  I have been praying about going to Hawaii and would really love to go back there but I ultimately do not know where God will take me.  All I know is wherever He leads I'll go!!!  Praying for you!