Tuesday, December 9, 2008

The Heart of Missions

This week we had the pleasure of visiting with Jack and Audrey Hicks, missionaries and mentors to those in ministry.  We enjoyed the services in their home church, Freedom Worship Center, and then went on to have a time of fellowship and sharing.

The Hicks' have served as pastors, missionaries, and mentors.  As you sit and visit with them they quickly make their passion evident; they love people.  Such is the heart of those who have been in the presence of the Father, who have found what God calls important, who share the values that mark out the reality of the Kingdom of God.  They willingly set their own lives, careers, dreams, and fortunes at risk in order to see the will of God done in the earth.

Be it on the streets of Columbia or in the neighborhoods of their rural Pennsylvania community, Jack and Audrey are living to make the Name of God great among men by leading others into a personal, powerful relationship with Jesus Christ.  Seeing people born again is not enough, Jack and Audrey are committed to seeing those they interact with walk out the life of the Kingdom here on earth.

Life is filled with choices.  Jack and Audrey have chosen to live in fellowship and active agreement with God and His will for their life.  They are changing the world, sometimes one life at a time.  Whether here or abroad, the positive influence of these children of the living God are the kind of people we can all be proud to know, support, and emulate.