Knowing and respecting the language of another still opens doors. On the island of Sicily, an improbable but amazing story in missions continually is adding new chapters as that simple principle of knowing and respecting language is the basis for reaching the unreached. A missions team, headed up by AGWM missionaries Neil and Kathy Vanaria, engages with refugees arriving from a multitude of nations, tribes, peoples and languages and shares God’s word with them in their own languages. Light for the Lost is key to making this happen.
A Treacherous Journey
My daughter is sick, very sick. She is too weak and tired to walk further, so I carry her. Every step of the way I cry out, "God, please help."
Our country, Syria, is at war. Our home is destroyed. Most of our family are dead. We are forced to leave. We have no other choice. We had a good life in Syria, but that life is over. Everything we owned is gone, and our youngest daughter is on the verge of death.
Feeling Called, but Scared
Here’s a question I get asked everywhere I go: “I feel called to missions but fundraising really scares me.” Okay, I’m cheating a bit by saying this is a “question” I get asked often. It’s rarely a question; it’s more of a statement that’s left hanging in the air like a dialogue bubble in a comic strip. A nervous person, chewing their lip and searching my face expectantly, still expects an answer though, so I always take it as an unspoken question: *How* can I fundraise? Or perhaps more accurately, how can *I* fundraise?