I'm outta here

Yep.
Peace!

Leaving U.S. soil.....at last

So after 22 years of never leaving U.S. soil, I'm finally going to. Saturday I take off for Georgia- the country. Can I say that on here? I think so.
I feel like the J-flick is totally dominating this website lately but I guess that's cuz we were the only ones on location for a bit. cept for U.S. interns who just weren't representing. But I expect the Roma folks to be speaking up soon.

Anyways pray for Laura, Christina, and my trip to Georgia. I'm pretty stoked cuz I've never been out of the country before! We're recording Mingrelian and Georgian.
Can't wait to tell ya about it when I get back!

A new land

I'm off to go reach a rare people group! I'm so excited. There are about 100,500 people in this people group and they live in a few countries spanning Benin to Ghana, etc. They are unreached and I am incredibly excited to bring them the Gospel.

When I signed up for this thing, it was all about going to people that haven't heard. I feel that's the role of missionaries - to break new ground. We have churches that should (if they are faithful which is unfortunately rare, and hence we have CRU) spread the Gospel, the Gospel of repentance and salvation in Christ's name alone, to the area around them. In the Bible, God made it clear that Paul's job was done, not after preaching to every person, but after preaching to every area so that the church there could spread the good news. Then he would move to unreached lands. Sometimes in this job I will go to a country that has the Gospel and give them a great evangelistic tool for use by churches. That would not be a waste. But what really excites me this year is helping the creation of churches in places that don't have them yet, so they can produce a self sustaining soul winning ministry apart from foreigners. To start a church, first those people must hear the Gospel, and that's what I bring.

Thanks for the prayers, beloved.

Bish

PS: I like the word "beloved" to refer to all the church when I write. It's biblical, fancy, underused and sounds nice.