What a wonderful week in Mattoon, IL! I was able to attend the Harvest Celebration at LifePointe Church this last weekend. Pastor Marvin Yoder, was the Dean of Students when I was at RHEMA and one of the key note speakers was the Dean of the School when I attended, so to be somewhere where both of them were together again was a real treat! I had opportunity to reconnect with other alumni from the school and to meet some wonderful new people as well. Philip Slaughter and Jerome Hamilton also spoke during the week and we were exhorted again and again about this being a season of Harvest in our lives… especially as it relates to people coming into the Kingdom of God. Messages were timely and I was stirred again about personal purpose and direction God has shown in times past.
Opportunities to be a light come every day, too. Yesterday I took a bus ride from Mattoon to make a trip north to Michigan where my Aunt and Uncle live. When I got on the bus for the first part of my journey, I quickly realized by the way they were dressed that there was something unique about the majority of the passengers… they had just been released from prison. The man I sat next to was one, but it was one of God’s divine encounters. He was 56 years old and had a Bible and the Joyce Meyer book “Battlefield of the Mind” in his lap. As we began to talk I heard his story and had the privilege of gaining unique insight into the life of an inmate. I was able to encourage him in his walk with the Lord, but the sharing of his story ministered to me, too.
“Crossing cultures” doesn’t always happen just by going to another nation. Sometimes it can happen on a bus ride when you’re gaining an inside look into the heart of a person who’s experienced something in a place you’ve never known.
Opportunities to be a light come every day, too. Yesterday I took a bus ride from Mattoon to make a trip north to Michigan where my Aunt and Uncle live. When I got on the bus for the first part of my journey, I quickly realized by the way they were dressed that there was something unique about the majority of the passengers… they had just been released from prison. The man I sat next to was one, but it was one of God’s divine encounters. He was 56 years old and had a Bible and the Joyce Meyer book “Battlefield of the Mind” in his lap. As we began to talk I heard his story and had the privilege of gaining unique insight into the life of an inmate. I was able to encourage him in his walk with the Lord, but the sharing of his story ministered to me, too.
“Crossing cultures” doesn’t always happen just by going to another nation. Sometimes it can happen on a bus ride when you’re gaining an inside look into the heart of a person who’s experienced something in a place you’ve never known.
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