Lost in Translation

We're up in Minnesota for a round-robin missions conference. It's pretty interesting! Five churches go together for the conference, and each one hosts a missionary family. Then each missionary family rotates to each church, presenting their ministry to each of the congregations.

The other missionaries are to the fields of India, Yap (Micronesia), Venezuela, and Zambia. Wow, that's a diverse group of mission fields. The Zimmers to Yap have some incredible stories about living in the South Pacific. They've had people threaten them with machetes; he almost died from eating a root without preparing it correctly, and they almost got washed away by a typhoon. They don't have any language schools in Yap, and they also mentioned that the Yapese people often disagree on the "proper" way to say some things. It was neat to hear how excited they are to return to Yap to share God's love with the people.

What a blessing to see how God calls every one of us to serve Him somewhere. Whether that be Ames, Iowa, or Yap. May we grow in our faithfulness to serve wherever we are.