Living Above the Sun Ministries

I love my job for numerous reasons. One being that I work for the best boss ever in the world. I'm thankful to call her a sister in Christ, and a friend. Secondly, it's become my mission field. I'm learning that missions comes in different forms. It's not always in form of hammering nails, and doing strenuous mission projects. It's not always in the form of of using words. God has used just simply used...me. The Gospel impacts our work in more ways than one. Not only are we called to do a good job in our work to the Glory of God, as if working for the Lord, but the Gospel of our work is told in how we encounter and treat people. We can work really hard, but Jesus' Gospel; the Good News of life, is for people. No amount of hard work we do will matter really unless we are allowing Christ in us to draw people to Himself by the deeds we do with our hands, by the words we speak with our lips, by the love we extend with our hearts. A young man came into th...

There is a famous verse that is used a lot when churches, and many missional organizations try to get people to answer the call to missions. It's found in Luke 10:2, "He told them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field." While there may be some places where this verse can apply, what about the places where there isn't even a sign of a harvest? What happens when the field isn't ripe? When the field is still full of thorns, and rocks, and there has been little cultivating or preparation done. I'll never forget a few years ago I was on a mission trip in Dallas Texas. We were on the Wycliffe campus doing some work, and I was assigned to clearing a field of big boulders and rocks. In the heat of July in Texas that was A LOT of work. I'm pretty sure I sweat through my shirt twice and then some, and probably lost 20 pounds through sweating. I'm exa...