This blog is dedicated to my boyfriend, Ryan Blythe. I have known Ryan for about 10 years, and I have always been impressed with his happy, easy going personality. He is an extremely caring person, and exudes the character of Christ to everyone around him. The beginning of this summer we had a long discussion about mission work. I shared with him how I decided to be a student missionary this year, and he shared with me how he had been leading out in Bible studies with classmates from his university. I was really impressed with the change that I saw in him, and in how much he had grown in Christ while I was away at college…
Ryan is currently a student missionary in Indianapolis, Indiana. And I am so proud of him! One of Ryan’s good friends is going through a deep state of depression to the extent that he does not leave the house for fear of panic and anxiety attacks. Ben has spent the last 3 to 4 months in his room watching TV or playing video games. Ryan found out about his friend’s condition a couple of months ago and has been visiting him ever since. Please keep him in your prayers because this is really hard on Ryan to see his friend like this. He’s not sure what triggered this behavior, or how to get him out of this state. When I talked to Ryan on the phone he said he was able to visit him for about an hour, and when he was getting ready to leave he had prayer with him and he said a prayer as well. In Ben’s prayer he thanked God for giving him a friend like Ryan that still cares about him and visits him…
I am so very proud of Ryan for taking on this challenge of helping Ben get over his depression and anxiety attacks. Please add this to your prayer list… Ryan has his own mission field right in his backyard. I know that God is going to do great things through him this year. God is already working through him to reach out to his friends and to everyone around him. I can’t say enough about how proud I am of him…
It doesn’t matter the place of service… it matters that one is serving. Your mission field could be smiling at your new neighbor who you don’t really like… or, talking to the person in your class that everyone seems to ignore… there is no special place for mission work. Mission work is wherever you are if you are willing to be used by God…
When thinking about mission work… try not to think about foreign countries, but try to think about the people at your work, or at your school, or just the people you come into contact with everyday. Create your own mission field wherever you are. God has challenged us to be a witness for Him wherever we are…let’s take Him up on that challenge!
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