A wise son brings joy to his father

Jewish cemetary-Krakow,Poland. This is located near where
the actual story feautred in the movie "Schindler's List"
took place.

"A wise son brings joy to his father mother " Proverbs 10:1
I have recently listened to  or read about many of my friends and how proud they are of their grandchildren. I haven't made it to that stage of life yet, but I am one proud momma. I just finished a phone call with my son, Evan. He is at a missionary conference in another Ukrainian city. Evan has always been "the quiet' one in our family.Which is OK because the rest of us are loud enough. Dyslexia made school difficult for him even though his IQ is higher than most. Dyslexia also affected his ability to play sports and enjoy many of the "normal" things kids do. But, wow, what an amazing young man he has grown into. The quiet kid is now the young man who notices homeless people on the street and takes the time to learn their stories and buy them food from his own money. He's the young man who is always ready to jump in and help visiting mission teams, even though they are complete strangers. He's the young man who taught himself to play bass guitar; who traveled through the night on a train to play that bass at a Christian conference, learned many new songs in just a few hours and saw God miraculously heal the blisters on his fingers just in time for the opening worship session of the conference. He's the young man who answered another missionary's plea for help and boarded another train to help with a summer camp. At the camp he was the young man that helped put out the fire when a kitchen gas tank exploded and administered first aide to the cook until she could be transported to a hospital.He's the young man who loves on orphans and started a neighborhood football team. And he's the young man who answered God's call to missions. Not just to any mission, but to serve God's chosen people.

And yes, as a missionary he will need support. I realize that  some of you who read this are supporters of our ministry or Chelsey's and for that we are truly gratefully.But statistically, most of those you read this are not current supporters and that's OK. God calls each of us differently. In 1991, while watching a TV story about the falling Soviet Union I knew that I was supposed to love orphans in Eastern Europe. At the time I knew very little about Christian life and definitely didn't understand that God calls everyone to some sort of service. Fourteen years later we boarded a plane for Ukraine and haven't looked back since. So, the point is, maybe God hasn't given you a heart for Ukrainians,orphans, or the victims of human trafficking but maybe,just maybe, the thought of God's chosen people missing out on the fulfillment of God's promises stirs something in your heart. In Genesis 12, God tells Abram "I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great,   and you will be a blessing.I will bless those who bless you".  In Malachi, God promises," 'Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.'". When you support a missionary,yes, you are blessing that person by helping them follow God's call, and you are  blessing the people they serve and you are asking God to bless you---which he promises to do.

For more information you can contact Evan.
Check out Operation Mobilization : http://www.om.org/
http://www.om.org/en/give
(support a missionary)
(Just for the record, I am very proud of Chelsey too)