Friday, August 29, 2008

Zero to Sixty in Year 400

Dorothy Kenton, an Alliance missionary who had plans to serve God overseas, was redirected in 1942.

After much prayer she believed that God wanted her to go to Quebec. “When I could say a wholehearted ‘yes’ too Him and give my willing consent to serve Him in Quebec for as long as He chose to use me there,” she recalled, “a great peace flooded my soul and immediately the Lord gave token after token that this thing was of Him.”

Later she wrote:

Quebec is not ordinarily thought of as a mission field. Going up there does not carry with it the glory and glamour of one who is crossing the ocean. Nevertheless, the field is a most needy one and certainly a hard one; a field that needs the earnest prayers and supplications of the Lord’s intercessors…

Apparently, in 1948 Quebec was considered:
“the world’s second largest (after India) unevangelized missions field, still open to the Gospel”
- Lindsay Reynolds “Rebirth: The Redevelopment of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada 1919-1983

I wonder how much has changed in 60 years?

Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me a sinner.

1 comment:

Leslie Ann said...

I like this. God bless you in Quebec.