Urgency—There might not be tomorrow
Campus Crusade’s role is to help build movements everywhere so that everybody knows somebody who truly follows Jesus Christ. Part of my role in that ministry is to be trained in how to win, build and send people by the power of the Holy Spirit and so, help the body of Christ to fulfill the great commission. In this training, post summer Bible classes, I read an article by our current president, Steve Douglass. “Future Direction” describes how and why Steve felt led to more clearly define our ministry’s role in the Church universal, and he does. At the end of this article, Steve emphasizes John 9:4 in regards to the very ripe harvest all around the world in saying: “It is ‘day.’ But it won’t be forever. So let’s work… together!”
When
I met Dina, a new Latina staff joining Destino (Cru’s effort to reach
Latin Americans & Hispanics), in Orlando this summer, I didn’t
recognize the seed God was planting in our relationship to create a
thicker unity within the body of Christ. In connecting us through my
former discipler and good friend, Jen Hu, God began to align us to the
same vision Steve Douglass mentions in this article, “movements everywhere...so everybody knows somebody who knows Jesus Christ.”
Dina and I both recognize the quickly growing Latino community and plan
to: help bridge their knowledge of Christ so that they may know Him,
bridge to the majority staff (not Destino) with them on the mission
field level, and bridge the generational gap within their culture and
churches. With this community quickly growing, we recognize the urgency
in our mission to see every Latino & even every minority have an
opportunity to know somebody who truly follows Jesus Christ.
Discomfort vs Disunity
Minorities in ministry often feel uncomfortable as they are surrounded by people of a different class, culture, etc.One of the things God taught me when I first became a part of Campus Crusade for Christ was that comfort is NOT something He has given us a right to. Christ’s divinity in flesh, Paul’s radical life change, the disciples living off of whatever they were given, Abraham leaving the only place familiar to himself, Moses speaking & leading a nation, Esther confronting a King on behalf of her people are just a few examples of people who were obediently uncomfortable for Christ. Even Peter, who didn’t want to take the Gospel to the Gentiles was challenged to do so in a vision from the Lord recorded in Acts 10. Like Peter, in Acts 11 was in an uncomfortable position to bridge the gap between the Jewish believers and the newly converted Gentiles, I think God has called me to be a bridge builder within Cru. Please pray for me and Dina as we seek the Lord to know how exactly He wants us to do this.
My Mission:
“Through the leading & power of
the Holy Spirit, may Christ be fully known to all peoples, by our love
for one another, as we raise the standard of this Christian nation and
ultimately be a light of unity to the world.”
For more information on what I mean by this, feel free to email, call, or look to my Facebook or Blog. :)
In Christ,
E. Tabitha Morales
