Best Day yet of 2012

“What was the best day of last year at work?” That’s a good question to ask yourself to know what really gets you excited about what you do.

For me, Tuesday was the best day of this year so far. So if you want to know what a “best day” looks like for me, a missionary, an aspiring leader trainer, and a church planter, here it is:

*I left the house at 8:30 after spending reading two chapters in my Arabic Bible. God filled me to the full with words from Galations.

*I headed to a nearby city  to meet Bible requestors with three guys in my car: Suffian, a national believer that I have been training for four years who is now pastoring, B., a recent Bible college graduate serving a year-long internship with us, and R., a South American pastor turned missionary now creeping up on one year in the country. Just that car full is a lot of fun.

*Throughout the day we met up with five new people who had asked for a Bible. We took turns in pairs of two. Two of the three had large beards and were prepared to argue. One girl brought her sister and defended the popular religion but was very kind. One brought his friend and they argued the typical points but conceded all of them finding them indefensible. The last one was an former atheist who said he wanted to believe in God but just not the God of the Koran. For all of them it was the first time they had ever seen a Bible. Suffian declared Christ to all of them answering every question from the Word with the power of a real preacher.

*Between these meetings we visited the house of a 29 year old young man named Sayeed. We had met Sayeed two and a half years ago and given him a Bible. Suffian had gone through five salvation lessons with him and he had made a profession of faith. He started coming to church but then I had to leave suddenly and our resources were stretched thin and caused us to have to stop meetings there for over a year. We spent about an hour with him at his home.  Though we hadn’t seen him in over a year he showed us his Bible that he is still reading and expressed a desire to meet again with believers. It was great to see this first convert that Suffian led to Christ continuing in his faith.

*Between meetings I was able to talk with B., the intern, for a couple hours in total. We talked about how to train and disciple. He is a sponge for this stuff.

*R, the Latin American missionary, shared his testimony in Arabic with one of the contacts. We started this initiative to mobilize Latins five years ago and it is now giving fruit.

*After the meetings I met with a young national believer that is beginning to train for ministry. He went over with me what he had done while I had been gone. He is heading up a Bible study this Saturday in his hometown and had made more meetings to give out Bibles.

*I arrived home about 9:30 pm and checked my email. Twenty new Bible requestors from Morocco had been sent to me by our coworkers in Lebanon. I responded to emails before I went to be from a former intern planning a survey trip this summer. Another initiative we started 5 years ago that is just now giving fruit in full time missionaries coming to this country where we were the first Independent Baptist missionaries.

So, wow! Fruit was blossoming all over the place and new seeds were planted with fervor from encouraged sowers. That was my best day yet this year. I just hope that it doesn’t keep the top spot long.

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