Go!

 About 3 weeks ago, Rob Gerlach, our Minister of Music, who also arranges for the lectors that do the Scripture readings in church, sent me an email and asked if I could serve on May 22nd.  I said sure, what will the readings be?  "They're from the Book of Acts and the final chapter of the Gospel of Matthew."  At that moment, I realized a "God thing" was happening.  We have been doing a chapter a week as a church in Matthew and I knew that the Great Commission would have to be part of the thrilling conclusion.  It's the mission statement for our vision project, it's why we do what we do.  Here it is:

The Great Commission

16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

How special is this?  Being sent by Jesus to do his command.  It was very profound for me, as I'm sure it was for the rest of the team.  While we are going on a mercy mission to help people with their vision needs, I like to say that we are an Evangelism Clinic disguised very cleverly as a Vision Clinic.  We help people to see clearly in both this physical life and hopefully have an impact on their spiritual one as well.  

One way we do this is every patient that comes to the clinic waits in tents outside until it is their turn.  Local church members use an Evangecube to explain the Gospel simply in local languages and each person gets a tract (little pamphlet) with the same pictures and story.  Here is a link to the maker of the cube's website where there is a short video explaining how the cube works near the bottom right of their page: Evangecube | eCube Classic | Fun & Portable Evangelism Cube – e3 Resources

Even young people with smartphones and other gadgets are fascinated by the cube, it works in any language!  More to follow as we begin our travel today.  Blessings everybody!