Five months ago, I started my job at East-West. I’ve felt called to missions for over a year now, and I prayed for months that God would open up an opportunity for me to serve Him and make Him known throughout the world.

In my mind, I thought that obviously meant I would be on a plane heading into “no man’s land” right about now. Instead, I sit at a desk, drink a lot of coffee and stare at a computer until my eyes hurt at the home office.

I love my job. I love my coworkers. I love the mission of East-West.

Wrestling with Mission Work from a Cubicle

However, I have often battled with the lie that the enemy whispers in my ear: Am I really answering my calling to missions?

As I have prayed, the Lord has answered with a resounding, “YES!”

I serve the Lord and support our missionaries from the United States. My risks look different. My evangelism strategies may look different. But I am obeying the Great Commission.

Learning to Multiply Impact from Home

I go through my daily life loving people and sharing the gospel. I am encouraging our missionaries by raising support in the Development Department to continue growing this ministry and moving it forward. I take the responsibility to serve our field staff by praying for them and sending encouragement to them.

“For the body does not consist of one member but of many…. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.” -1 Corinthians 12:14,16-20, ESV (emphasis added)

Just like the Body of Christ is made up of many parts, a ministry also must be made up of many parts. Just because I am a hand and the missionaries are feet does not mean that either ceases to be a vital part to the mission and ministry of East-West.

Embracing Your Role to Multiply

I get to be part of an amazing team of people who are pushing towards God together and striving to reach the ends of the earth with the gospel. I even got the amazing chance to go overseas on a short-term trip with East-West.

The term, “missions,” is not for “them over there.” It’s for you and me right where we are at and right where God has called us to be.

“And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.” -Colossians 3:17, ESV