The Lottie
Moon Christmas Offering® enables IMB missionaries to live and work at the
forefront of lostness and extend our witness through their full-time ministry.
Each of us and our churches are called continually to take the next step in our
obedience so that Christ is glorified and to ask “What am I doing and what is
my church doing to be obedient — to BE His heart, hands and voice, no matter
the cost?” Join us this week for the
Week of Prayer in remembering missionaries around the world. Each day we will post the story of a
missionary. Please pray for these
missionaries every day.
Week of Prayer:
His heart, His hands, His voice - I am Southern Baptist missions
His heart, His hands, His voice - I am Southern Baptist missions
Grace* shakes her head.
Feathered earrings dance, framing her face with motion and color. She is a
member of one of the indigenous tribes of South America and is talking about
the future of her people.
There are outsiders who would
keep them in something of a mus eum — as living history, she says — stuck in a
time that has not been a reality for several generations. It’s not what she
wants. Yet the identity of her people in the global community is not an easy
issue. “A lot of our people don’t even know our [culture],” she says. “They say
they do, but they hide behind it.”
She wants her people to move
ahead — to “win.” She wants them to take advantage of all that is going on
about them while retaining the best of their culture. That means having to
change.
Grace and her tribe are among
3,400 unengaged, unreached peoples across the world. Nearly 400 are in South
America. Isolated by language, culture, history and — in some cases, geography
— they live mostly in small clusters of fewer than 3,000 people. Most will
never have a missionary assigned to them. Yet the church is called to take the
Gospel to all peoples.
Gifts to the Lottie Moon
Christmas Offering allow IMB personnel to identify and understand these often
forgotten people, offering Southern Baptist churches committed to embracing
unengaged, unreached peoples a basis for beginning their work among them.
Pray that Grace’s people truly will “win” and have the
opportunity to hear about their Savior.
Pray that your church will be one to embrace an
unengaged, unreached people group that might not otherwise hear the Gospel.
Scripture to Claim:
Also I heard the voice of
the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here
am I; send me. Isaiah 6:8
