Moments
People from across our mission community answer the question ... How are you crossing the street ?
Marg Lakeside Baptist Church , WA
I ’ ve actively joined many groups that already take place in my community . My mission is to show people Jesus through my interactions and attitudes .
I want to see all my contacts have the love , joy , peace , patience , goodness , kindness , faithfulness , gentleness and self-control which only comes from Him .
I am seeing God at work through the relationships I am building . It ’ s not like they have said , “ Thank you Marg , I ’ m following Jesus now ”, but I get told of my attributes which I know come from the Holy Spirit . I trust He is working in their hearts .
Ayla Eaton Baptist Church , WA
I cross the street with school mums , my neighbour , our community mums at Mums and Bubs , and with the non Christian friends God has blessed me with !
Tobias Baptist Mission Australia , Mozambique
One of the translation team members sadly lost his grown son recently . I attended the funeral along with some of our translation team colleagues . In this culture , it is not really acceptable for men to express their grief openly .
There were a couple of hundred people in attendance at the funeral and despite these numbers , the grieving father chose to walk with me from the residence to the cemetery , and back again .
We crossed the street together walking partly in silence but also partly in conversation as this man expressed his grief to me . It was obviously a very sad time but it was also a beautiful time to walk in grief together . Jesus walked with us as well , that much felt certain .
Elsie Crosslife - A Baptist Church , QLD
Jesus is with me every step of the way . Once upon a time , I would run and hide from any kind of conversation with anyone outside my close knit circle of friends . But now , God has given me the confidence to cross the street and speak His truth .
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