When we have translated the Word into our own lives, we are then prepared to translate it for others. Best of all, you will find Jesus in the Bible. He will take from your heart all the sin, the bitterness, the hatred and prejudice, and give you love and a forgiving spirit. Mission grows out of worship. And then, out of the blazing worship of our hearts, springs our work.
Mission is focused through observation and obedience.
This is how we learn where we need to be and what we need to be doing. For more than 70 years, the Zebala village in Mali had rejected all Christian influence. Many considered Zebala an impossible village to reach for Christ. A year after Wycliffe members Dan and Lucia settled in the village to begin language learning, Lucia hosted an embroidery class for the women. The chief was impressed by the women s handiwork and decided to give land for a church.