Journal of Missions Door 75th Anniversary June 2023
Today was the first day that the conference began and I got to speak with about 20 missionaries, which is really huge since there's over 240 people here.
While I've been aware of the impact, the campus ambassadors has had due to so many having had connections at Trinity through the years I've never gotten to meet any of the international missionaries or the ones who are doing tremendous work in the United States. I can't believe the history. and where this organization has taken people during the past 75 years of support. It makes me realize how much Missions depend on the giving of the local church to make these projects, the planting of churches, the impact missions have on communities, the leading of others to Christ, and helping others to grow in Bible knowledge, which prepares them to become missonaries with indigenous people.
Today I met a group of men and women from the Honduras. I learned that the Honduras is the fastest growing area for church planting through this organization. People are coming to Christ like never before. Most of them may have Catholic backgrounds, but they've never come to know Jesus or know about the Bible. I also never realized how big the Honduras are and that there are so many mountainous areas where they're trying to reach people who have not been reached before. I met one missionary, who really connected with Dennis, (particularly when dad said that he has been remodeling a house. )This missionary named Paul said that he would love to have Den come as a missionary and help teach the men in his area about how to do construction and how to help them build a church with rooms for a Bible college.
He said he has over 300 men who would love to learn these skills and his wife works at 425 women who are needing to learn life skills and more about the love of Christ.
I met a man who has been planting churches all over the Honduras. His boss on the Leadership Council said he’s amazing at planting churches.
A couple who have been working with Missions Door for the past five years and who minister on campus in San Diego are from Japan. They minister to the newly integrated Japanese in Japanese, and they have had quite the impact on the Japanese culture here in California. Part of Missions Door.
I spent quite a lot with a gal we’ve known for years through church, who minister to Islamic people, and has done so much for touching the lives of Muslims and teaching them about the love of Christ. She ministers in a way that provides for their physical needs by providing clothing and food and furniture they first come to
I've met many people from campus ambassadors just due to the fact that Trinity always has had such a major part in this organization, and that's where most of the people I met through the years came from. Mostly due to the fact that Trinity was close to ASU.
I met a lady whose parents were missionaries for years and she continued by working in rural areas in Nevada to children, whose parents have been caught up in the world of gambling and brothels. She drives over 6000 miles a month just to meet with all of these people who need to be cared for and particularly children. We are having dinner with her tonight.
I spoke with two men who run an addiction center/ church in New York. City. They’re church ministers to addicts. and they've seen miracles happen. Both of them are former addicts, which, of course makes them much more credible in the world and where they minister.
I was blessed to introduce myself to an older gentleman who is accompanied by his children who are in their 60s because he's 89 years old. He has been ministering to Mormons in Utah for the past 62 years. He and his wife knew the Falconer's as do many people here. It makes me realize how much impact a man and his wife can have globally even after he's gone. Many of them knew Dave when he was married to Myra in the ministry that they had and then they knew Ken who is married to Joyce before Joyce and Dave got married. They are still amazed how much Joyce does with Nogales even though she's blind, had brain cancer and a heart problem. And she's still ministering with her work in Nogales.
It's really amazing to see the work that God is doing and to be amongst so many godly people. I feel very blessed to be here. Missions Door has impacted so many people in so many different ways. I think sometimes people are misled into thinking that you can only be a missionary if you go into a foreign country. But just in the people I've met today, we've covered addiction, newly arrived, Japanese people, campus, ambassadors for campus ministries, Brothels, gambling, Mormons, unreached people groups in the Honduras and I was asked to go help be part of the mission team to Barcelona! Wow! Whether or not dad and I go into missions the fact that we can be part of this global impact by supporting these people is an honor.
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