Sunday, July 5, 2015

My Lifelong Goal

The following testimony is by Ethan Stalker a volunteer from Old Fort Baptist Church's June 2015 team. Thank you, Ethan, for allowing me to share your heart to our readers.

I recently had the opportunity to go to Tanzania, Africa for the second time. I was so excited to go back and couldn’t wait to see what God had in store for the team and I. We were asked to create a goal for the week and reach that goal everyday. I felt like Jesus was telling me to intentionally show love. His love. A simple smile was showing love because of the language barrier. All week I tried to intentionally show God’s love in all that I did. It was so much easier to show love in Tanzania than at home.
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This is Baraka. On the last day at the second school he came up to me and said “Thank you for coming and showing us God’s love.” I was blown away when he said this to me. I had never talked to him before. He simply saw us teaching about Jesus and showing Jesus’ love. I reached my goal for the week, but that’s not enough. My goal for the week became my lifelong goal. To intentionally show God’s love in all that I do.
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. John 13: 34-35

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