Gv4337 Total or Token Commitment (Acts 1v8) — George Verwer

The Power to Witness to the Ends of the Earth

Okay, let's now get into the message and let's start at Acts 1 8. Very familiar. We're not going to be there long those of you who Have been around around a while know a lot of these texts. You'd be in much prayer.

What's the Lord trying to say? Through some of these same old texts. Acts 1 8 But ye shall receive power After the Holy Spirit has come upon you. And ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem in all Judea Samaria and the uttermost part of the earth.

Preaching the Gospel Where Christ Is Not Named

I want you to look at two other references. 2nd Corinthians 10 16 when I was a baby Christian. Converted in high school. I'm going to share about that tomorrow night. Please don't just bring friends tomorrow night.

Please bring enemies. Tomorrow night is going to be partly evangelistic. We have them coming in I believe from the local prison. You got any rock stars? You know anybody that's against Prairie Bible Institute.

Probably not possible in Canada but. Bring them in tell them a complete nutcase is parachuted in from nowhere and Get them in here. I'm going to share my testimony how God saved me in New York City. And we're gonna have an exciting time and maybe some people will come to know Jesus.

Some of our best workers on the mission field got saved and sent the same night. That's why I prefer to be introduced as an evangelist rather than a missionary because that's really what I'm into. And we see people saved and sent the same night.

Amazing, I think if Krista Iker she was Krista Fisher when I first met her. Escaped from East Germany. Tried West Germany. The nightlife Paris the nightlife London. Another language nightlife Italy. More fun kicks games arrived in Madrid.

Thought I had a job came to me for work. I said I don't have any work. Here's a book. Gave her a book by Billy Graham. She got saved and sent same week's been with us ever since that's 24 years. Went out to India went up to Turkey first then went to India went to Bible College in India.

Married a young man born in India became the director of OM. He's an MK Ray Iker and They've been there ever since he's the director of OM India. Leading three to four hundred people into battle in that land of seven hundred million souls.

So who knows what may happen here? Tomorrow night. But let's look at those two other references. Second Corinthians 1016. I haven't got to it yet and Romans 1520. I Think I'll read Romans 1520. First just very interesting little verse.

Yay. This is Paul speaking. Yay, so I have strived to preach the gospel not where Christ was named. Now, that's important. I want you to get that. I Was sharing how as a young baby Christian I learned to mark my Bible.

Two things I learned that revolutionized my Bible study. Memorize scripture and mark the scriptures mm memorize and mark and. That helped me so much because as a young Christian I had so many problems so many struggles and Memorizing scripture just was a major factor in God changing my life.

So I have strived to preach the gospel not where Christ was named. Now that doesn't mean everybody has to have that motto. Not everybody's the Apostle Paul. Not everybody is being called to that and led into that same ministry.

Some of you have been called to teach at prairie. Fine. You don't have to you don't have to feel intimidated because you can't say as Paul I have strived to preach the gospel where Christ has not been named.

I don't think three hills quite fits into that category. You don't have to be intimidated by that. All you have to do is believe That certainly this is very important. In terms of the whole overall overall strategy of God therefore there should be Many people today who can say this and are saying this and of course This was one of the purposes of founding this institution in the first place.

Then look at 2nd Corinthians 10 16. 2nd Corinthians 10 16 to preach the gospel again, Paul is writing in The regions beyond you and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.

I think it's clear and some of the modern translations. Now today we have many voices right and one of the reasons I am in Europe and God Transplanted me to Europe just 25 years ago last month Is because I felt Europeans needed a greater missionary challenge to go to their own people to go to their neighboring countries.

Some of you know, my friend God smuggler brother Andrew. Tonight you've got God's bungler brother George. That's me. You know that term the guy who blew it. I also went into the Soviet Union with Gospels hidden in the cornflakes boxes and in the walls of the car with a printing press hidden under the dashboard and due to my gifted stupidity I was arrested on the second day by the Soviet secret police and after Talking to me about a holiday program in Siberia decided to exile me from the Soviet Union or kick me out.

The Birth of Operation Mobilization

And it was during a day of prayer After coming out of the Soviet Union that God brought these two words to my mind. The early name of our work when we first worked in Mexico and Spain was called send the light.

Interesting you chose that him this afternoon. But it was there in a tree praying and worshiping God in a day of prayer and fasting that God brought two words to my mind. Operation mobilization. He gave me a vision not a technicolor stereophonic vision.

But an idea that I sensed as I prayed was from him. I've been giving out tracks in Vienna and it was a long process trying to reach all Vienna with the gospel. And I thought I saw this British young people's group.

Just sort of they're having fun. They were staying in the same youth hostel. And I thought if I can mobilize and it was around that time that term came into my mind that young people's group. It would be a lot easier to give everybody in the word of everybody in Vienna the Word of God.

That's when God gave me I was living in Spain at that time I spoke Spanish. I'd been laboring in Mexico. Going there during my summer holidays when I was a student. But that's when I I just got a great vision for Britain already quite a missionary country.

But at that in those days it was weakening a little bit. British missionary leaders were looking to America number of them have in had immigrated to America and Canada and missions was getting stronger here and God gave me this burden to see Europeans Playing a major role in world missions.

Frenchmen Belgians Germans Swedes Norwegians Spaniards Italians and that's the story of operation mobilization a story of Europeans. The first OM there were hardly any Americans at all much less Canadians.

Europeans launching out about 200 that first summer. Then the the word spread over here in Canada and the States and we brought home over that summer one charter plane full of Americans and Canadians and they of course after that also Continued to play a major role in a movement that became basically rooted in Europe.

And I just want to tell you God is doing more in Europe than many of us Seem to think. And even sometimes missionaries from Europe. I tend to feel give a very false picture because today some of the greatest missionaries I know are Europeans and They are doing a tremendous job.

They don't always have the same numbers. But do not think that Europe is just a mission field. It is a mission field one of the reasons I'm there, but it is also a sending field and Today in world missions, we need people who are going to work hand-in-hand as brothers with Europeans with Asians and with Africans as we have seen the internationalization of world missions.

The Harvest, the Nations, and Competing Christian Priorities

I think of the words of the Lord Jesus Christ in Matthew 9. The harvest is plenteous the labors are few and I think that's still true today. There are many countries I would like to talk about. But I want to somehow put across.

That there are certain sectors of the world now that have received a lot of attention. We thank God for that they still need specialized personnel, but they have received a lot of attention and I think since we are one body.

Even though you may be a missionary from one of those countries and Feel still your country is the most important and the country of the greatest need naturally. That's where you're from. You must be willing to at least think with me.

About some other places would you do that? Before you feel intimidated that you may lose a recruit. For your country because he catches a vision for one of the countries that I am trying to represent.

Who am I representing. There are many voices praise the Lord for all the voices God by his spirit can put it all together. Next week somebody may get up and give the challenge for South America. Someone else may give the challenge for doing hospital work in Kenya the highest missionary per capita nation almost in the world.

Praise the Lord God can put it all together. There are different voices. There are different challenges today in America really from what I hear the main thing we should all do is fight abortion. That's right.

We are putting more effort now, at least in the States. I don't know much so much about Canada in the fighting abortion. Certainly than we are it seems to be in fighting world missions and there's nothing wrong with.

I'm also wanting to fight abortion. So there are many voices. There are the Political voices that are telling us that Christians need to get involved more in politics. There are the refugee starvation voices telling us that as Christians.

We we are old-fashioned if we're just interested in giving out tracts and preaching the gospel. Now we got to talk about the kingdom. A lot of the theological journals. Aren't they now talking about the kingdom?

What do they mean by that? Some of the mean that we as as Christians we fundamentalists or evangelicals or whatever we want to call ourselves. We have got to get with it. We got to think more about the whole man the whole man and so.

We feel intimidated those of us who are old-fashioned. We're supposed to be old-fashioned. Those of us who still feel we ought to go out around the world and preach the gospel. And see people say those of us who are still crazy enough to believe in giving out tracts.

We even believe in giving them out so much in OM that I think we distributed about 20 million tracts last year. That isn't the main work of OM, but you see we believe that men are lost. There's a book on that table about the lostness of men.

If it's not there tonight, it'll be there tomorrow. It's probably in your bookshop. Something along the line of God. Is that fair? That was the greatest struggle for me. My first year before I went to Bible College I was at a liberal arts college that was largely anti Bible anti evangelical the perfect environment for a rebel radical outspoken red-hot Billy Graham convert like me and the more cold water the philosophy teacher the sociology teacher the Bible teacher.

With his 68 theories of Isaiah poured on me the hotter I got the water turned into steam prayer meeting started and Operation mobilization was really had its second birth in that liberal arts college before it ever went to Moody.

But I am convinced that you are gonna have to wrestle through this issue. Are men really lost? And I thank God for this institution. That you stand firm on the biblical basis of the doctrine of hell. It's not easy.

We don't like it we're human beings. But it's what we find in the scriptures Dale Rotom when he and he and I have been together 28 years. Somebody once said he's got the brains and Burroughs got the mouth.

Hallelujah. We've exchanged a little bit over the years. We met at that liberal arts college what a meeting that was. You know, God can put people together and God is going to put you together in some lifetime relationships here at Prairie.

But when I got to this particular college Somebody came to me and they said look we want to just warn you about this little group. That's having prayer meetings for the faculty. I Said oh, yeah, there's a guy there wrote on Dale wrote on and he's baptizing people in the showers.

He's a complete fanatic. You can be sure the first guy I was looking for was Dale wrote on. I met him walking home from church. And we have been together for 28 years. He pioneered Turkey. That's why we've got this book.

He pioneered our work in the communist countries. He then took a year in the States and decided to launch back. He's now the director of both of our ocean-going ships the MV Lagos and the MV Doulas as Prairie as Dale got up here to Prairie yet.

You must lasso him in up here just to help spring me into into balance. He's plagmatic calm. Level-headed, you know, he's been my Nathan. He would sit in the back when I was preaching and you know. After the meeting people would come up to me praise the Lord brother.

What a great message. Oh praise Lord God spoken to me. I get to brother Dale. He say George when you have time, I'd like to have a chat with you. I knew what was coming. And he'd take me aside he'd say George, you know God's using you, you know, he'd set me up God's using you.

You know, you know, but you know what you said the other night in the meeting, you know, was it was it really? Was that exactly true the way you said it? Well, you know sometimes those of us who are subject to excitement say things that are not, you know, exactly.

Sometimes we just dramatize a little bit. None of you of course level-headed calm farmer type Canadians have these problems. But we do. We do but I can assure you I Can assure you that there are other parts of the world Where the gospel is not Going and that's what I want to represent.

The Unreached Peoples: Afghanistan and the Baluch

That's what I want to represent tonight. I don't want to leave anybody else out, but I have to do what I sense God would have me do who do I represent? Let me let me tell you who I'm gonna represent. I can't represent them all tonight.

I'm short of time. I want to represent the Afghan people. I've just been among them again. They're in the refugee camps. Afghanistan is a nation at war. Afghanistan is a nation where hundreds of thousands have suffered or been killed now.

There are three million refugees. And we have a feeble struggling work. We've been working among these people 17 years the leader of our work Gordon Magney. He's another one I met. We met up at Wheaton College.

That was a little later on. He's been with us 24 years. One of these dynamic converted lovers of Jesus who came out of that Lutheran background and He speaks the language fluently. He was in Kabul for years now.

He's started a new work outside of OM. One of OMS little babies. Called serve so the other missionaries can come in to serve without going through OMS training. The Afghan people how many churches among the Afghan people we don't know of any.

Now would you would you remember that? Even some of you missionaries to Europe. With all of your statistics on France all of your statistics on Italy in Spain three countries. I am also very committed to.

We don't have any church yet in Afghanistan and maybe in your presentation about Europe. You ought to remember there are places and there are countries today where Europe was 2 ,000 years ago brothers and sisters.

That's why I believe one of the challenges for Europe. For Frenchmen for Germans for Swedes for Norwegian even Spaniards and Italians is go out to the Afghan people. And I am praying that from Prairie Bible Institute and this weekend There will be some recruits for the Afghan people.

I represent them because they don't have any other representatives here and I like to represent the minority groups. The second group I want to talk to you about are the Baluch people now some of these names may not mean much.

The Baluch people are a couple of million strong. Don't have all the statistics handy. Some of them are in these cards. Some of them are in other books. Praise the Lord. There's been an increased outreach to the Baluch many of them in Karachi.

Many of the others are in eastern, Pakistan. And we thank God that a few workers are arriving. I've heard of a couple coming with Wycliffe. There are some others with other missions some of those missions are represented here but There is almost no Baluch Church.

There may be a few Baluch believers gathering. See, it seems incredible, doesn't it? 2 ,000 years since the Great Commission a lot of people in the United States ten years ago were upset with Ralph winner.

A lot of missionaries wherever I talked to their upset with Ralph winner. Sure. He may Overstate his case. Maybe he shoots only one arrow, but that arrow needed to be shot. Because so much of missionary work we was being done.

Among people who were already responding and where the church already existed. I Might not agree with Ralph and everything. Maybe you don't either praise God for compassionate disagreement among Christians.

It's the only way you can survive. But I thank God for the vision. God has given him and many others. Some not so well known. It's not really a new thing. Brother Maxwell who founded this institution had that vision just use different vocabulary.

When he wrote his old book world missions total war we must continue to press toward the front. We must continue to give a sector Of our missionary recruits to the unreached places like the Baluch people.

What about the Kurdish people? There are millions of Kurds. They have no nation. They want a nation. They have a much better cause than many other people who are claiming to want a nation. The Kurdish people in pocket in in Turkey Are persecuted.

They're not allowed to have their language. They're not allowed to have literature in Kurdish in Turkey. Did you know that the Kurdish people have almost no church? What about the Turks themselves? I've mentioned a book about Turkey when you speak about this in the United States.

People think you're talking about Thanksgiving Day. They don't even grasp that there is a nation called Turkey. There are also More Turkic peoples this people's group and it's many subdivisions living outside of Turkey than in Turkey.

Many of them in the Soviet Union. Some of them in China. Someone we're very close to has just taken a trip into China the facts they brought back about Muslim people's groups in China. Some of them I can't even pronounce them all yet.

Okay, some of you think I'm a people's group expert. I'm. I'm not a people's group expert. I'm too I get too much of my time is reaching all these people to become an expert. But I know enough to just to just Feel so burdened about all this.

And to wonder why there are not more workers. Even from great places like this that are not moving in this direction. Turkey has 40 million souls. You know, we never wanted to go to South America, you know, and we we fought South America even though I speak fluent Spanish.

Missionary Mobilization in South America

We fought it. We thought there's great mission societies going to South America when I did research on South America as a student. It was the neglected continent. God raised up tremendous missionaries to go to South America raised up a tremendous church.

I mean the church in Brazil. It's phenomenal the church in Argentina. That doesn't mean there isn't more work to be done. That doesn't mean there are problems extremes and morality. My it's just overwhelming.

But when God gave us two ships somehow we decided to send one of our ships to South America. And when we got there, of course, we gave the challenge of the unreached people. We gave the challenge of world evangelism.

We had our prayer cards and our maps put into Spanish and you know, we discovered. Many of the South American churches are ready and ripe to become part of the worldwide missionary community isn't that exciting and We before we knew it had several hundred Argentinians who wanted to launch out and reach Muslims.

Of course the churches didn't want to send them. So a lot of them had to stay back in Argentina. But some are coming some churches are changing and we are on the cutting edge of an advance guard move in Latin America.

That is very very exciting. That's why the ship Lagos has gone down there to follow up on what the doulas is doing and I'll tell you Church leaders many of them in South America and missionaries are more excited about it than I am.

I was almost opposed to it for a while because I'm so Asia oriented and Europe oriented and communist world oriented. I thought how can we let add Latin America to OMS over commitment? Somehow God has done that.

Mauritania and the Forgotten Nations

Why because when the Latin Americans looked at these prayer cards they read about Mauritania. Mauritania does that mean anything to you? That's not a new sandwich. You can get at the local restaurant.

It's a nation and there's no known believer in Mauritania. Now You know, am I crazy in feeling that I must emphasize this in feeling that I must launch my personal protest movement to protest. The fact that these countries are forgotten and neglected and very few people are going there.

Batteries gone. Had me worried for a minute. I thought he was gonna tell me like a man once did hey your time's up sit down. It almost became a neurosis with me for several years. But that seldom happens here.

I won't go much longer, but bear with me, please. Because these nations are at stake. Do you think I come here with you know a little message in my Bible to give to you? This burden I am sharing with you has been on my mind and my heart almost every day for 31 years.

Do you think it's easy? To still give the same message I've been given 30 years ago. To still go back to Turkey as I do and back to to the Afghan people as I'll be going back in March and go back to Pakistan and Nepal and Bangladesh.

I've only just begun to give you some of the facts about the forgotten people the unreached people. Do you think it's easy to go back and see the tokenism so few workers so few are concerned and Then come back and give the same message.

It is one of my books is called hunger for reality. And I just say that I share this burden about these people. Because it is reality in my heart and in my life. I live with this night and day. It hit me before I went to Bible College.

Personal Conversion and the Pocket Testament League

It hit me when I was in high school. In fact before I was saved I got partly saved through reading a gospel of John. I Started to give money and raise money. I didn't understand anything about prayer yet.

I wasn't saved. I Was in the process and God was using this gospel. It was sent by a group called pocket Testament League. So I found out about what they were doing. They were giving Gospels out. I thought that's a tremendous work.

So I started to show their films in my totally liberal unevangelical anti-fundamental church. I Started to show these films and raise money to buy Gospels. I Was still a high school student if the Bible is true.

Then characters like me and I know many of you are in the same camp praise the Lord. We're together in this then we are right and Those who speak against this those who try to undermine this those who try to intimidate this those who try to subtract.

You know, I don't like to be bullheaded, but they're wrong. And a lot of the present-day drift of American evangelicalism. It's wrong if it's foul. It's less than best it detracts from the great task that God has given us to be witnesses in every nation to every people's group.

And to present Christ to all the people of the world Hudson Taylor said if to give the gospel once is not enough. What should we say of not giving them the gospel at all? Now you can probably guess that an influential man in my life was Oswald J. Smith.

In fact as we sang this hymn tonight My mind went back to Moody Church when I was a student at Moody Oswald Smith came to speak. He was already getting fairly old and When he gave the invitation it was a call to mission.

It was a call to repentance though Moody Church was full. No one hardly at all responded. Sometimes you have that kind of a fluke. I'm sure many were spoken to but no one openly responded. Well when I heard the singing of that hymn, Oh Zion haste I Had already been to Mexico.

I'd already won hundreds to Christ. I was already considered a student leader a man of prayer. You know the labels they put on you when you're going anywhere for God because the church scene and the evangelical scene is such a shambles.

Somebody comes along and behaves in a biblical way. We think he's a freak. But though I was being used of God and I was esteemed as a leader and all this kind of thing and OM was being born God just humbled me.

I saw my lack of love. I saw my lack of vision. I saw my fear. I was still struggling with a lot of fear. God was pressing me to take another team back to Mexico. I didn't really want to go. I Never been home to my parents since the day I left 17 years of age to any degree.

And I went forward. I was sitting with the woman who later was going to become my wife I am I was a human being. I didn't exactly want to stand up in front of her. To acknowledge that I was a sinner that needed repentance and go forward.

I've been forward in these kind of meetings before I don't need to go again. People think I'm unstable. Of course, I'm not stable. You think God is going to take some hyper super stable stuck-in-the-mud Alberta Phlegmatic and send him out to turn Mongolia upside down for Jesus Christ.

You'd rather see geese playing checkers in London. But somehow as the invitation was given the Spirit of God Convicted me that I needed more and that there was sin in my life and I went forward it was disorganized and I went into the room where later the choir came in to change their clothes and and I was there weeping because God had broken me.

So I went into the basement of Moody Church where no one could find me and I wept my way back to Calvary. And people murmured all over the Moody Church. Oh dear me miss this unstable extreme fellow. Let's pray for him.

Others made more derogatory comments, but I tell you most people That saw this weak struggling character. Most people didn't believe it would go more than two years. Many of them told me people said you you can't take on the whole world.

You can't live with this kind of burden this kind of zeal this kind of intensity. It doesn't work. You'll you'll blow up. You'll have a nervous break breakdown. You'll you you know, something's gonna happen.

Well, here I am. Oh, what a joy to come back an old clunky like me 25 years overseas never had a nervous breakdown. I I Never even got near one. I'm not the kind not the kind that has a nervous breakdown.

I Cause him not funny and we'll get to that when I talk about spiritual balance. Remember I said this this this message had a few extremes. But I'll tell you if we're gonna get the job done in the Muslim world.

Zeal, Spiritual Balance, and the Call to Extreme Commitment

If we're gonna penetrate the unreached peoples. And I wish I had time to talk to you about our burden for the communist world the Soviet Union Albania these countries where we need men. We need women.

It's gonna take some extreme people. I Don't think the problem of the average Canadian even jellyfish evangelical is extremism. AW Tozer didn't feel this was the greatest problem in the average church.

Tozer thought to think that too much enthusiasm. Too much zeal was the greatest problem in the average church was like sending a squadron of policemen out to the cemetery At midnight to guard against the demonstration by the residents.

AW Tozer Don't go around saying that I said that it's too extreme for me. God is looking tonight for some extreme people. Brother Andrew once said to me it's easier to cool down a fanatic than warm up a corpse.

And I would say to you be filled with the Holy Ghost. Don't worry about becoming a little bit extreme in the area of prayer. The snow won't melt. Don't worry about becoming a little extreme in giving more time to the word more time to missionary books more time.

To some of the basic spiritual things spoken about in some of these books like the writings of Andrew Murray. Balance isn't the first problem if you're not committed if you're not wholehearted if you haven't got zeal if you haven't got Intensity if you're not on fire for God, there's nothing to balance.

I always think of spiritual balance as an airplane with the two beautiful wings going down the runway. The wings keep that fuselage in balance and We need balance and we'll be talking about that probably by Saturday, but I'll tell you something more strange.

You might go to an airport and you see a fuselage going down the runway without any wings. That's that's strange, but I'll tell you something more strange. If you go to the runway and you see two wings with nothing in between coming straight at you.

You will know you need rest. So my beloved brothers and sisters I Come to you representing the unreached people. The Turkish people 40 million with less than 200 believers less than 200 believers among 40 million.

I've come to you representing Hundreds of unreached people's groups that have no churches in some cases don't even have any missionaries. People sometimes say but look we've heard about the National Church.

The Scale of the Unfinished Missionary Task

Listen, it's a big world. It's complicated. We have everything out there. We have strong national churches. We have weak national churches. We have churches we have countries where the National Church can do the job.

We have other countries where the National Church doesn't exist. Don't generalize. Don't generalize. Study get to know the countries where this kind of work is needed and where the missionary task is half-completed.

Get to know the countries where the missionary task has hardly even started. Don't just accept little cliches or slogans. Study read. Get into books like operation world get into some of the deeper books that you have in your tremendous library.

Right to mission societies get the facts. Don't be afraid to ask the hard questions, but when the day is done You will have to acknowledge That there is a segment and we're talking about hundreds of millions.

India alone we have 700 million people and just hundreds of unreached pockets and people's groups. India alone the subcontinent, which I'm very much involved in has 1 billion sold 1 ,000 million people it took until 1930s no 1830s to get the first Billion people in the world.

Did you know that thousand million the entire world? 1830 now we have that many in the subcontinent yet today. Even though places like Pakistan. Except Canadians without a visa. We have hardly any Canadians going to Pakistan and they're 90 million souls.

I don't know how many unreached people's groups in Pakistan. And the door is wide open. You can preach you can give out literature. We show films to Muslims. We share with Muslims. I've spent hours in the streets selling books to Muslims brothers and sisters.

I Believe God has brought me here. For this purpose to cry out to you to recommit yourself to this task to turn away from any tokenism and. To determine that this should be a priority. Romans chapter 10 says how shall they preach unless they be sent?

Sacrificial Senders, Recruiters, and Total Commitment

Many of you may not sense that God is leading you to go. But with the way the situation is right now. Unless we get more Sacrificial senders. Did you get that little phrase? Unless we get more sacrificial senders and more sending churches that will really make the unreached people a major Priority than many of the young people who even want to go they will not go.

And let me just tell you young people some of you already heading in this direction. You're already praying about this. Let me let me just tell you this and I'm gonna close. You better learn to fight you better get in you something of what God put in me when I was a young man.

Fight it wasn't and and and I need time to explain that but in summarizing. It's it's stick ability. It's spiritual stubbornness. It's it's knowing where you're going to go and determining no matter how long no matter how much suffering how much prayer.

No matter how many people you have to persuade or or knock out in the process. Spiritually speaking, of course. By God's grace you are gonna get there or you're gonna be as Oswald J Smith who said if you can't go send others and.

Some of you who are not able to go and the complexities are tremendous in getting people to the field today in many cases. Especially these parts of the world. Meanwhile, let's all be senders. Let's all be recruiters.

Let's not tiptoe over to the little literature table. Oh, I have one map and I'll have a card. No, let's go and get a dozen and let's start sending them to our friends and let's start all becoming recruiters.

Let's start mobilizing more prayer for missions. Let's start spreading the word around about the facts. People are lost millions and hundreds of millions have not heard. And If people like those of you who gather at a conference like this if you don't do it who will.

Who will? What school? You tell me because I've been around for 30 years looking and maybe you can save me some journeys. Brothers and sisters if you had prairie. Don't have this as a priority as a pounding heartbeat in everything you do.

If you don't I'd like to know who will. You're right to me. Let us pray. Let's just have a moment of silent prayer. I've opened my heart. You may be intimidated. You may be hurt. You may be scared. Little girl came up to me at the Bible school two days ago.