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Missions Atlas Project

Have you ever wanted to know what countries have more a greater or lesser percentage of lost people? Take a look at WorldMap.org. According to their website, their

mission is comprehensive: To create maps of languages and people groups for each country of the world while linking appropriate missions related data. The status of each language and people group is evaluated with regards to the JESUS Film and Bible translation as well as their current level of exposure to the gospel message (also known as the "Status of Evangelization").

 

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What Drives Us?

In this blog entry, I asked for ideas of how to witness to the lost when I am emersed in Christian Culture. At my new Job, I'm going through new employee orientation. In that, I was able to interact with lots of different people from lots of different areas. One of those areas was exactly what I was struggling with. Isn't God wonderful how He brings people together?! Anyway, back to the point.

In talking with this guy, he said that we need to be purposeful about it. We need to pray that God would make us sensitive in our daily life to the people around us. Because, while we may not realize it, we interact with a TON of non-believers all day long. Here is just a short list to prove my point (and his too):

the gas station attendant
our next door neighbor
the people across the street
the lady at the grocery store

That list could go on and on.

So, this morning, I'm reading today's My Utmost for His Highest and the title is "Don't Slack Off" and deals with this subject. The verse used was John 14:3

And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

This snippet was also in the thought: 

…I must take time to realize what is the central point of power. Do I give one minute out of sixty to concentrate upon it? "If ye abide in Me" – continue to act and think and work from that centre – "ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you." Am I abiding? Am I taking time to abide? What is the greatest factor of power in my life? Is it work, service, sacrifice for others, or trying to work for God? The thing that ought to exert the greatest power in my life is the Atonement of the Lord…. "Whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do." The disciple who abides in Jesus is the will of God, and his apparently free choices are God's fore-ordained decrees. Mysterious? Logically contradictory and absurd? Yes, but a glorious truth to a saint.

So, we know that:

1. We must witness
2. God will do what we ask within His will
3. We need Opportunities

Therefore, if we ask God for opportunities to witness and the sensitivity to see those times, He will provide.

So, while I'm still looking for ideas on how to interact with people, I'm going to be asking God for opportunities to share Him with a lost world.

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July 4th

Sorry for the delay since my last post. Cyndi and I went to visit my Grandparents over the 4th of July weekend. The drive seemed to take forever! We did some little stuff around the farm: messed with the horses, pitched horseshoes, messed with the horses, worked on a pond, messed with the horses…. Get the point?! We spent a ton of time messing with horses! I have some pics I'll post probably this evening once I get them off the camera.

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Church Visit 2

This weekend, Cyndi and I visited Faith Baptist Church. Very nice church. The people were very nice. The Sunday School lesson and sermon were very good–well thought out, delivered, and good content. The church is going through a state of flux right now because the pastor is feeling led to move to California and start a new ministy (I don't know what…no one said). The congregation is small (probably 25-50 people in the Sunday Morning service), but seems to have a good heart.

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More on Sprint

Well, the PRL–preferred Roaming List–update to our phones didn't help at all. So, Cyndi and I went back to the Sprint store to have them checked out. We had to leave our phones there overnight, so Sprint gave us a loaner phone to try. it was a Sanyo RL-4920. Just an FYI, it had no issues last night. No dropped calls. No garbeled calls. Everything sounded great. I'll let everyone know what happens when our current phones are upgraded.

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Gentoo, again

I finally got another Linux box set up. Once again, I chose Gentoo. Probably the main reason I chose them was their emerge utility. Want to install someting? Simply type emerge –search APP_NAME. Once you have found it, enter emerge PACKAGE_NAME. The application (and any dependancies) are downloaded, compiled, and installed.

I have one additional box I want to put something on. Right now, it has Windows 95, but I think I'd like to play with something different. Any reccomendations? It has a Cyrix P200+ processor (no MMX support), two 4GB hard drives, and 32 MB RAM.

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Greek Festival

Cyndi and I walked down this afternoon to the Richmond Greek Festival. It was very interesting. We took a tour of the Greek Orthodox Church, ate tons of Greek food–Randy, I avoided the stuff wrapped in green leaves. The food was very good. We forgot the camera, so we don't have any pictures to show you. Bummer :^(

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Bike Riding

Cyndi and I are looking for a good place to go ride our bikes in Richmond. We'd prefer a place off-road devoted to bike riding (well, people can run there too). Anyone know of such a place?