God and Go

Start this blog off in Jonah and traveling all the way through to South Africa.

As I head to South Africa this summer I am slowly going through Jonah with the guys in my discipleship group (d-group) lead by James Broadaway. As we look at the text in the first chapter this week we noticed a simple but powerful message hidden in the text. Jonah 1:1-2


¹ The word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai: ² “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”

"GO"
The word of God came to Jonah and said GO
Immediately and since that time we have thought of many times throughout the Bible where God comes to man and says GO

-Abram Genesis 12:1 "...GO to the land I will show you."
-Abraham Genesis 22:2 "...take your son...and GO...Sacrifice him there..."
-Moses Exodus 3:10 "So now, GO. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt"
-Isaiah Isaiah 6:8-9 "...here I am send me... GO and tell this people..."
-Jonah Jonah 1:2 "GO to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it"
-Matthew 28:19 "Therefore GO and make disciples of all nations"
-Mark 16:15 "GO into all the world and preach the good news to all creation."

We are ALL called to GO. We are ALL called to share what Christ has done in our lives. The underlined words are not just for emphasis but to show that when God says GO he has a purpose for why he wants us to GO. He has told our team GO to Johannesburg, South Africa. GO and share the gospel.

Support Update

I just want to thank all who have supported me so far. As of today I am at $1745 of my $6000 dollar goal. However I am behind the goal of currently having $4000. However we are raising this as a 20 person team and as a team we are also behind. Coming into this weekend we only had 30%-40% of our total goal. But our goal this weekend was to have 66% of our total. Today we are spending heavy amounts of time praying, writing letters, writing thank yous, and calling people to support us. We have raised just enough for our leaders to buy the plane tickets to get there and back but now we need the money to eat and house us while in South Africa.

Please Pray For Us:

-That God would faithfully provide financial support for us.
-That Gods will would be done
-That we would faithfully share the gospel while in Africa
-That we would be faithful in raising that support