SERVING AS A SENDER…
In college, I thought getting involved in missions meant that I had to sell all my possessions (like the rich young ruler) and leaving all my family and friends behind to go over seas where there are no electricity and running water. It wasn’t until I read Randy Alcorn’s book Safely Home and taking a Perspectives Class that I began to realize that missions is mandated by God for EVERY believer.
I also learned that you don’t have to necessarily “go” to be a missionary. Those who serve as senders are equally important and significant. It was then I began to realize that God was calling me to get involved in missions by actively serve as a sender. CFC has provided that opportunity for me by getting involved in a team who have committed themselves to the work of serving as senders for one of our missionaries.
At CFC, we have assembled many teams that help out each of our missionaries that are out there. I am a member in one of them. With a group of about 10 people, we support our short term missionary Adelaide Kim, whom you guys already might know. Anyways, I’m dedicating this post to her becuase we got together with her parents this past weekend. They took the time to drive down to spend a few hours with us by providing us with a nice meal and to spend time with us in prayer and worship.
I thought I share some photos from that event with you along with captions. Perhaps this will encourage everyone to get involved in some way.
Thanks to today’s technology, we can now talk directly with our missionary for free! Here’s our team gathered around a computer using Skype program to audio chat live with Adelaide.
As you can see, some of us are still blown away by the fact that this is possible. We played a silly guessing game by making Adelaide guess who we were after saying something really short. 
Adelaide’s parents arrive. Her dad says hello to her. At first he was kind of shocked by this whole audio chat technology.
What would meetings be like without food?!? Yum.
Adelaide’s mother serving us food.
Adelaide’s parents being playful while we were eating. I don’t think they knew that I was taking pictures of them. Actually they were celebrating their 28th anniversary on that day — yet those chose to spend that time with us in spending time in prayer for their daughter.
They finally realized that we were all watching them instead of eating.
We all got around to get ready to pray for her.
Adelaide started by sharing her prayer requests while we all listened carefully.
Then the prayer meeting starts by singing some praise songs followed by topical intercessory prayer. (Sorry, could not take any photos and play the guitar at the same time. Just imagine that it was going on.) Amazingly, we accidently left Skype program on and Adelaide was able to stay with us the entire time. We think that this was some what of a miracle because laptops usually go to sleep after about 15 mins of inactivity which would’ve disconnected her.
At the end, Adelaide’s mom says final few words to her daughter.
Here’s a final group photo of us together. Missing from the photo are: Julie Puntahachart…!(spelling), Praise Lee, Linda Lee, Queena Chi and Me (i’m taking the picture:-) )
EDIT: Here’s a picture of our team from our first meeting.
“In secular war, for every one person on the front line of battle, there are nine others backing him up in what is called the ‘line of communication.’” – Neal Pirolo, Serving As Senders
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