July 30, 2009 • 8:22 pm 0
Hi all,
This will be my last blog and then I will be retiring the blog site. I have been so busy that I cannot find the time to keep the blogs current and no one wants to read a blog that has not been updated in months.
So thanks to all of our readers and all future updates will make there way onto www.whowillgo.net. Blessings..
~Bob
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July 10, 2009 • 4:33 am 0
Hi all,
Tonight Priscilla said, “You know, if there is one thing I can say to my friends about my life, it is that I have probably stayed in about 100 different hotels”. What roadwarriors :0)
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July 8, 2009 • 1:46 pm 0
Are missionaries unbalanced? Of course they are. I’m one. I ought to know.
A missionary probably began as an ordinary man or woman. He dressed like other people. He liked to play tennis and listen to music.
But even before leaving for the field he became “different”. Admired by some, pitied by others, he was known as one who was leaving parents, prospects and home for a vision. So he seemed to be a visionary.
Now that he’s come home again he’s even more different. To him some things – big things – just don’t seem important. Even the World Series or the Davis Cup Matches don’t interest him especially. And apparently he doesn’t see things as other people see them. The chance of a lifetime – to meet Isaac Stern personally – seems to leave him cold.
It makes you want to ask where he’s been?
Well, where has he been?
Where the conflict with evil is open and intense, a fight, not a fashion – where clothes don’t matter, because there’s little time to take care of them – where people are dying for help he might give, most of them not even knowing he has the help – where the sun means 120 in the shade, and he can’t spend his time in the shade.
But not only space, time too seems to have passed him by. When you talk about the Rolling Stones he looks puzzled. When you mention Star Wars he asks what that is. You wonder how long he’s been away.
All right, how long has he been away? Long enough for thirty million people to go into eternity without Christ, with no chance to hear the gospel – and some of them went right before his eyes; when that flimsy riverboat overturned; when that cholera epidemic struck; when that Hindu-Muslim riot broke out.
How long has he been gone? Long enough to live two seiges of amebic dysentery, to nurse his wife through repeated attacks of malaria, to get the news of his mother’s death before he knew she was sick.
How long? Long enough to see a few outcast men and women turn to Christ, to see them drink in the Bible teaching he gave them, to struggle and suffer with them through the persecution that developed from non-Christian relatives, to see them grow into a sturdy band of believers conducting their own worship, to see this group develop an indigenous church that is reaching out to the community.
Yes, he’s been away a long time.
So he’s different. But unnecessarily so now, it seems. At least, since he’s in this country, he could pay more attention to his clothes, to what’s going on around the country, to recreation, to social life.
Of course, he could.
But he can’t forget – at least most of the time – that the price of a new suit would buy three thousand Gospels, that while an American spends one day in business, five thousand Indians or Chinese go into eternity without Christ.
So when a missionary comes to your church or your Christian group remember that he will probably be different. If he stumbles for a word now and then, he may have been speaking a foreign tounge almost exclusively for several years, and possibly is fluent in it. If he isn’t in the orator class, he may not have had a chance to speak English from a pulpit for awhile. He may be eloquent on the street of an Indian bazaar.
If he doesn’t seem to warm up as quickly as you want, if he seems less approachable than the youth evangelist or college professor, remember he’s been under a radically different social system since before you started high school and maybe is unfamiliar with casual conversation.
Sure the missionary is unblanced.
But by whose scales? Yours or God’s?
by T. Norton Sterrett
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July 7, 2009 • 11:25 pm 0
“The ‘romance’ of a missionary is often made up of monotony and drudgery; there often is no glamour in it; it doesn’t stir a man’s spirit or blood. So don’t come out to be a missionary as an experiment; it is useless and dangerous. Only come if you feel you would rather die than not come…There are many trials and hardships. Disappointments are numerous and the time of learning the language is especially trying. Don’t come if you want to make a great name or want to live long. Come if you feel there is no greater honour, after living for Christ, than to die for Him…”
C. T. Studd
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July 1, 2009 • 3:29 am 0
Hi all,
In just a few short weeks, www.whowillgo.net will be getting an extreme makeover and I hope you will swing by and take a look. We have had some incredible new ministry developments and are excited about what God is doing.
~Los Perez
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June 4, 2009 • 8:55 pm 1
Hi all,
I could not help but chuckle today when I was reminded of a cute moment after we visited a church in Chile that was Pastored by an American couple.
After church when I asked my girls how they thought the kids church service was, my youngest Isabella said “Dad, it was awesome, I absolutely loved it”. I was quite taken back and wondered, “what are they doing that we can implement in our church?”
I questioned Izzy for about 15 minutes until she finally said, “The reason I loved this church so much was because the teacher spoke english to me!”
You have to love your kids. Be blessed and have a great day.
~Bob
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June 4, 2009 • 1:45 pm 0
Where are the Perez’s this month? Pittsburgh, PA. As many know, we work in the area of church planting and this month I am blessed to not only get some additional training but also add value to other U.S. church planters. I am currently at a weeklong event training, preparing, and equipping other church planters with the practical resources to go and plant healthy churches.
In my group, I have three church plants I am working with from MN, KN, and TN and man it is awesome!! We have approximately 50 church planters here and God is doing some awesome things in our midst. 1 Year from now, we plan to return to the mission field where we will be training Pastors all across the country in the area of church planting and please pray with us that God will prepare our ministers hearts so that we can plant as many churches as is possible our next term.
To infinity and beyond…………………….
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June 3, 2009 • 3:48 pm 0
My heart is burdened this afternoon. There are many friends and family members in my life right now who are going through some pretty rough situations. Two of the families are in Chile and it is hard to be here and not be able to comfort them during these really hard times in their lives.
I feel like God has blessed me beyond measure so much in my immediate family and I so want that for loved ones in my life. Sin is running rampant and the enemy has deceived many. Today I am asking God to have mercy on those who are now hurting and crying out to Him.
So many people are hurting and they try to keep it to themselves. Why do we do this? We need transparency so that our brothers and sisters in Christ can help us along life’s toughest times. Father help us get rid of the pride and humble ourselves, because then and only then will they receive the healing they so desperately need in their marriages and families.
If you are hurting today, don’t be afraid to let it show and ask for help! God CAN!
Michele
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May 8, 2009 • 4:14 pm 0
Hi all,
Recently I was reading an excerpt from the pentecostal journal and wanted to share it with you because I read it and thought WOW!!! Enjoy..
Enrichment Journal: Past and present — the church lives in both worlds. Its moorings rest on the ways of God observable in history, and its ongoing thrust depends on its dynamic in the present. The same is true of the believer. His spiritual foundation is laid in the Scriptures, but his spiritual vibrancy and growth depend on daily renewal and commitment.
The intent of this message is to bridge the gap between the historical outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost and the present experience of the believer; further, to show how inappropriate is any spiritual experience that is locked up in the past and not allowed to flow forth in the present.
The question then is not so much, “Have you received since you believed? ”as it is, “Are you now living the Spirit-filled life?” The arrow of conviction must settle into the heart of every believer who is satisfied merely with the remembrance of an experience rather than the daily renewal that must characterize the Spirit-filled life.
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April 29, 2009 • 1:54 am 0
Well after 2 weeks we are finally settling into the United States again. I can’t believe that our first-term is over, time flew by soooo quickly. We begin itineration this Sunday and we are pumped and ready to go. We had a fantastic first-term and God moved greatly.
The girls have settled into their new school and have begun to make friends already. My girls are so incredible and have adjusted well to the missionary life. They are happy to be home near their grandparents during our furlough and of course are enjoying all of their favorite American snacks 
Please continue to pray that God will move mightily during this upcoming year as we face many challenges ahead, but nothing is impossible with our God.
Michele
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