Missions: The Ultimate Walk on Water

Being in a short-term mission trip to a different nation is packed with privileges that only comes when you obey God  and step into the unknown and uncertain. These privileges include, aside from travelling, being stretched in character and in faith in ways you could have never imagined, experiencing  cross-cultural encounter, connecting to locals from other nations that would be your buddy from somewhere around the world even after the missions, learning about significant things in life, and most especially being a part of what God is doing in advancing His Kingdom.

It's a great opportunity that a lot of believers are missing once they make missions a passive discipline of their Christian life. But who's to blame? Missions have always had a picture of hardship, lack of financial capabilities, and being vulnerable in an unknown territory. For me, these things entirely portrayed missions in hope to get people know Jesus, until God called me to go on my first ever mission trip to  Medan, Indonesia. Since then, I realized there's more to a mission trip than just losing your life. In fact, it's about finding life and its meaning and purpose.

Going on a mission trip is something similar, but not entirely, to going on a different place to explore. When you travel for vacation, the thrill, experience and learning that the tour gives you  makes the money, time and energy spent worth it. Travailing a mountain to its top, diving a cliff and walking in heights are experiences you have to work hard for but when you do, there's fulfilment inside your heart that no save money, spared time or unused energy can equally provide. When you go to missions, all the privileges I stated initially make it worth all the resources you would have to spend, in addition to the fulfilment that obedience to God's Great Commission to "Go and make disciples of all nations" brings.

I realized Christians may be more aware of these privileges if they have a clear picture of what happens in the mission field so I'm writing in the next posts the experiences that my current short-term mission trip in Mongolia are accomplishing in me.