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When I tell people I’m a missionary,
I get all kinds of questions.
People ask,
“What kind of missionary are you?”
Or they want to know exactly
what it is a missionary does.
Or a lot of times,
you'll hear people say,
“A missionary?
Here? You mean, that’s a thing?”
There are 281 million lost people
in the US and Canada.
So, yeah, it’s a thing.
But there’s one question no one
ever asked me, and I wish they would.
No one’s ever asked,
“Where is the finish line?”
That’s the question I want to hear,
“What does ‘mission accomplished’
look like?”
You can watch videos
about North American missionaries like me.
You can read stories about us.
You can pray for us.
But don’t get so caught up in the methods
and minutiae of what we do
that you miss the main thing.
Everything you see and hear
and read about us
is really just a means to an end.
We start churches to make Jesus known.
We meet needs to make Jesus known.
We move to unfamiliar places,
we meet unreached people,
and we attempt unrealistic things…
just to make Jesus known.
There is nothing more important than that.
Nada.
Nothing at all.
Jesus said, “Go into all the world
and proclaim the gospel
to the whole creation.”
And so that’s what
our finish line looks like.
It looks like obedience.
Same as your finish line.
God speaks.
You give. We go.
Everything starts with your gifts
to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering.
Those gifts enable us to go to places
where the gospel has never been.
This is where
we cross our finish line.
This is where, together,
we make Jesus known.