Top 10 things I love about working with missions

Guro and I have just come back from holiday in Spain. Coming back to work is an amazing blessing when you love the work you are doing. Here is a top 10 list of reasons why I love working with missions:

1. Getting to know God more - I have definitely discovered amazingly much about Him through spending time with Him
2. I found my amazing wife in missions


Here she is :-)

3. Seeing others finding God - One of life’s greatest experiences is being with someone that feels God’s presence for the first time, or that understands the message of the Gospel, or that get healed by God on the streets
4. All the friends with a heart for God that I have made
5. Traveling and getting to know different cultures, meeting new people, making new friends, eating new kinds of food


Just came back from Spain

6. Inspiring other young Christians to live for God, and being an example for them
7. Spending my time meaningfully, impacting eternity and living for something greater than me
8. Being constantly challenged in different ways. This enables me to grow!
9. Walking alongside great leaders, people that I can trust and be inspired of.
10. Living by faith financially - Maybe not something that I always “love”, but a blessing for sure!

Saved on the streets of Spain

We are on Holiday; chilling in the south of Spain, close to Malaga. Our friends Jonathan and Mirrku are getting married this Saturday and we have a great testimony to share with you! Last Sunday, we met Andrew, one of our friends from Gibraltar. He told us about a Ukrainian girl that Guro met two years ago during one of our Summer Teams. She had responded to the Gospel, and prayed the salvation prayer. He told us that after that encounter, she had been baptized, that she is now in Madrid, and that she regularly does the same kind of street evangelism that she saw us doing 2 years ago! God is good!

Living for others

With our Mission Training School underway, I have been reading about leadership, and particularly a book by John Maxwell called “Relationships 101”, a great book about becoming a servant and living for others.

A mistake that I tend to make as a leader is that I think too much in terms of influence and impressing, rather than in terms of investing into people’s lives. That usually reveals one thing: insecurity. Have you ever noticed that the people that encourage others the most are the most secure? When we feel the need to elevate ourselves above anyone else, it is because we base our value upon what other people think about us. In the same way, if we are unable to encourage, it is because we are unwilling to consider others more highly than ourselves.

Show me someone who thinks he is too important to serve, and I’ll show you someone who is basically insecure.

John Maxwell

So are you a servant, are you investing into people’s lives, releasing them to be all God wants them to be? Or are you insecure? Part of the cure is just to start serving in small things, and your heart will follow you mind. Use every opportunity you have to encourage the people around you, and to make them feel important!