Stories from the Mission Field | CGO Blog

I grew up thinking it was impolite to talk about money. But we’re all mature adults here, so let’s be impolite for a second.

Love might seem more common than ever. We comment “Love!!!!” on Facebook posts. We double tap Instagram photos to project our love to others, sending virtual hearts across the world. We loudly proclaim our love for chips and queso.

When Londa traveled to Uruguay on a mission trip earlier this year, she didn’t know how many children her group would be able to share the Gospel with. To their surprise, they met nearly 500children and were able to give every single child an Arch Book! That means 500 children were able to read about the Gospel. Thanks be to God!

“Walking in a winter wonderland” makes us think of being bundled up in heavy coats, warming our hands around a thermos of hot cocoa while the snow gently falls from the dark gray sky. And even if winter doesn’t mean December or snowfall for you, winter and snow are often described in the Bible.

The dollar aisle at Target during Christmas is a dangerous place.

No one ever tells you how hard it is to be an adult.

I remember the first time my faith was questioned.

Getting kids to volunteer or do service projects can seem like pulling teeth. How am I supposed to teach my child the value of serving others if he groans and mumbles and complains the whole time?

During fall, the fields are ripe for harvest and farmers work day and night to bring in the bounty of the fields, the undeserved gifts from the hands of our loving heavenly Father. The selected readings in our Grace Bible reading plan are all about God’s grace for undeserving sinners. Like mercy, which we examined over the summer, grace is a form of undeserved love, but it is quite different.  

Each of the readings in this Bible reading plan is about mercy. Just like His grace, God’s mercy flows out of His great love. But grace and mercy are very different
from each other. Grace is in the mind; it is a decision to love someone who does not deserve that love. Mercy is in the heart. It is looking at someone’s pain and agony and having a deep gut reaction—feelings of concern, care, and pity, the
feeling that I have to do something, get involved. It doesn’t matter if the suffering is that person’s own fault or even if that person is just getting what he or she deserves.