ALTERNATIVE PROPOSAL

Dear friends and colleagues

I received an email last week from a friend who is a very respected leader in International Student Ministry in the US.

The message touches me so much, and I hope it will encourage you as well to serve and reach out to the Internationals, strangers, and foreigners

It's an honor to serve the nations with you for God's glory.

Happy Thanksgiving, dear friends.

Blessing in Christ,

Kurnia

AN ALTERNATIVE PROPOSAL

LORD JESUS, you've told us to take your Gospel to all peoples of all lands. But we find this too hard! We're required to leave families, friends and familiar culture and go to a strange land to tell your message in a foreign language to an alien people. Most of them already have a religion which is interwoven into their whole culture and lifestyle. Besides, we Christians aren't welcome in some parts of the world, and are forbidden to teach your message (or even to go) to some lands. And the cost! If we really tried to reach the world in this generation, it'd bankrupt us all.
So we propose an alternative plan: you send the world to us! Have them come at their own expense - and learn our language before they come! Make them hungry for our friendship, anxious to come to our homes and willing to go to church with us. Send the young, teachable ones. Send those who are bright and vigorous, who'll someday be leaders in their home countries. Arrange for them to stay for several years so we can win a hearing for the Gospel and have time to teach them well after they become believers. Especially send many from places where missionaries are forbidden to go, including Iran, Saudi Arabia and Mainland China. How many, Lord? Oh, some 700,000 perhaps, well spread around the country so many churches and individual Christians can take part.
Now, if you'll do this, then we promise to make sharing Christ with these people one of our highest priorities. We'll get to know them, win a hearing through extending friendship and try to learn how to explain your Gospel to them clearly. We'll work and pray. It might sound like a lot to ask, but you can do it, can't you?

Glen Zumwal

Source: http://www.intervarsity.org/ism/article/104

God bless,

Kurnia Foe
Global Student Friendship

"Serving Internationals with the love of GOD" ( Lev 19:34 )

Website:

http://orgs.odu.edu/gsf  
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22423003856

http://globalfriendshiphouse.org/