We have been asked to use our experience and gifts to help shape and form a new generation of young missionaries by working in the OM Sweden office, helping to send teams into North Africa, the Middle East, and pockets of Europe where people have not yet had the chance to hear about Jesus.
Anders is working with communication, telling the encouraging, challenging, and inspiring stories of what God is doing. Susan is caring for missionaries, helping them to survive and thrive through coaching, mentoring, and pastoral care.
Office work?! What does that have to do with missions?
Here is a story:
One day a forest fire started near a group of cottages on a lake. The neighbours all started pitching in, running with buckets of water from the shoreline up to the houses to contain the flames. Suddenly a young man grabbed a shovel and started digging in the sand. “Can’t you see the fire?” the others called out. “What are you doing?”
The man replied, “I’m digging a channel.”
We long to see a new wave of missionaries raised up and sent out, and would like to use our skills and gifts in a strategic way to further God’s work. For us this means doing “channel-digging” work in the office!