Revival in the Auto Shop 
 

We work as support workers rather than front line missionaries doing evangelism. Sometimes, people feel that is not as important as doing the evangelism. However, those on the front lines could not be where they are if someone wasn't supporting them.

Not only that, but being a missionary is a state of mind as well as a job. Take for example the expatriates (in this case Americans) who are in Ukarumpa PNG as auto mechanics to keep the vehicles of the organization and all the individual missionaries'cars running. We went to morning prayer time on Thursday and it was led by the PNG local people who also work in the auto shop. You can see by the photo that there are about 20 of them.

What we heard is that there is a revival going on in the auto shop. Led by the missionaries (three of them in the photo below) they have been having Bible studies and prolonged prayer times. The New Guineans have been going out on the weekends to the nearby villages to evangelize. The auto shop had what we would call a "lock in" one weekend to devote themselves to prayer and study.

This Thursday the group lead us in song and prayer. The leader of the shop gave an emotional message about how God was working through the mechanics and helpers to do His work in PNG and to build up the churches nearby.

So, what does it mean to be a missionary? It means doing what God has called you to do vocationally but doing what God has called all of us to do in the Church--make disciples of all nations.

Just as these men are doing God's work wherever they are called to work, so you too can be part of God's work for all of us--making disciples--right where you work.

After all, being a missionary is a state of mind.