Recently I had the privilege of serving as a juror on a
court case that lasted an entire week. It was an insurance fraud ring here in
South Florida (insurance fraud capitol to the country) and I was confronted
with many who are in desperate need of light and healing in their lives.
Witness after witness testified before the jury, but more than a testimony
against a defendant I saw individuals who’s lives were absolute train wrecks
without hope for anything better, surrounded by others who had similarly run
their lives into the ground and were now at the mercy of the court. The need,
anger and depravity were staggering… and these were the witnesses, NOT the
defendant! Yet as I look around me each day I find I don’t have to be in a courthouse, or have to look very far, to find those in need of hope and healing, the very thing we are called to be.
As I work with churches, ministries and missionaries through
Latin America Mission, hardly a day goes by that I’m not impacted with the
brokenness caused by the very sin that we are to confront as part of God’s progressing
plan for this world. LAM missionaries, and the ministries we work alongside of
are pushing back the darkness where it lurks be that in drug addictions, poverty,
sex trafficking, broken homes and even false teachings masquerading as hope but
only resulting in deeper enslavement of those who are tempted in.
Sometimes though it’s the very carriers of salt and light
that need the healing. Sin takes advantage of, and destroys whomever it
can. It’s when the consequences of sin
directly or indirectly touch those who are salt and light that I am
particularly thankful for Christ’s incarnate body, the Church. The groups of
people throughout the world dedicated toward lifting one another up,
encouraging one another on and mending each other’s wounds even as they
themselves receive healing.
This very week I’ve had the privilege of assisting missionaries with desperately ill children, losses in their family,
financial disasters and pressures that seem overwhelming. Yet in EVERY case I see
partner churches in Latin America, or sending and supporting churches in the US
that are able to come alongside and be healing salt life giving light
where these servants of God need it most.
Please pray for me and the rest of LAM’s staff as we seek to
provide the support and connections to our missionaries in times of victory but
especially in times of suffering.
Please pray for the Abegg family and consider joining our support team as our missionary account with LAM has become a significant issue. Your prayers and financial gifts are multiplied many fold in that they touch each and every missionary and ministry we are able to serve and care for.
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