This picture may be familiar to you if you have viewed Troy Geddes' blog. The lady in this picture is Doru's Aunt. Doru who is in the white shirt with his back to the camera, worked with the Living Word Baptist Mission Team in Galati, Romania in 2006. He had told me that his Aunt would not earnestly listen to him when he tried to share the gospel with her. On this particular day, we had just received lessons from Troy Geddes on how to "Share Jesus Without Fear". I suggested that Doru ask his Aunt to let me practice my presentation of "Share Jesus Without Fear" on her before I went out on the street, knowing that I needed the practice and that she would hear the gospel at the same time. Doru asked his Aunt, she agreed and I proceeded with the outline going through each step. At the end of the presentation, I asked her if she would like to ask Jesus to come into to her heart, her response was Da, yes! You could have knocked Doru over with a feather! She did ask Jesus into her heart!
On numerous occasions Doru had tried to lead his Aunt to Jesus. I'm sure that he did a better job at telling her what she needed to do to be saved than I did, but God had made an appointment for me to be there in that apartment on that particular day, knowing that she was ready to listen to someone about Jesus.
The point I'm trying to make is that these short term mission trips will make an eternal difference in some persons life. Has God made appointments for you? Are you going to keep them? Doru's Aunt died this spring, if I had refused to have gone on that mission trip, where would she be today? The blessing on my life is overwhelming. Do not pass up the opportunity. GO. Randy
