Sunday, Dr. Robert Edwards spoke about Missions at church in Taft. This is the season when many have focused on foreign missions and given to the Lottie Moon Christmas offering.It is one of the greatest gifts one can give at Christmas.
Robert told of a special time in Colombia when several missionary families were actually going to have a turkey for their Thanksgiving meal. Mistakenly a lady working in the kitchen sliced it up before it was placed on the table. Knowing the kids would be disappointed not seeing the turkey on the table as a whole bird , the two surgeons present proceeded to assist in the matter by sewing the turkey back together! Only on the Foreign Mission field would such an event take place! Well, maybe on MASH in Korea if any of you remember that show.
Like making a turkey become a whole bird again, the same kind of thing has been done a thousand times over with lives that appeared not possible to put back together. With the experience of New Birth many have been made fit for service, not by suturing, but by being made new! Born again. That was the case in Colombia those thirty- plus years Robert and Dolores served there.
Others have now taken the field to keep the work going. It takes a supreme dedication to serve in such settings, but called servants do it willingly, in far away places and right here at home.
Please be sure you make a gift to missions during this Christmas season. God multiplies that gift as it is placed in the hands of dedicated servants of the King.
