WOW! We had an incredible speaker on Sunday morning. Frank and Marie Drown came, and while Frank did most of the speaking, Marie helped him provide a taste of life from a whole other world. Frank and Marie were missionaries for many years to headhunters in South America. They even wrote a book about their experiences titled Mission to the Headhunters. It was almost surreal to hear Frank talk about his experiences in South America, mostly because I've heard the story before. In fact I've read several accounts of the events that happened January 8th, 1956 to missonaries Jim Elliot, Ed McCully, Roger Youderian, Nate Saint, and Pete Fleming. It is rather odd even now to think back on Sunday, because for the first time I was hearing the story from someone who had actually been there. You see, Frank is the missionary they called on to go after the men to find out what had happened. If you don't already know the story, the men had been killed by the tribe of natives they were trying to reach with the gospel. To me it was still just a story, but to watch this little old man (now in his eighties, and yet still involved in active mission work) tell the story, I feel so incredibly blessed. I also feel challanged, and I've felt it alot lately. The question that keeps coming to light is "am I really called to be comfortable?" I know the answer is no, so where do I go from there. No, we're not planning to move to Ecuador or the other side of the globe, but where do we go from here? Where do we step out in faith and just trust God? I hope you are challanged by these thoughts as well.
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