Individual Volunteers in Mission Training

In preparing for Haiti, I went to a Volunteers in Mission Training this weekend. I learned many things necessary for going into missions all over the world. If you are even considering volunteering in the world check out the information on Indivual Volunteers in Mission. It will open you eyes and heart to a whole new world. I met so many wonderful people stretching out not only all over the world but working right here in the United States in there own backyards.
One of the conversations at the training talked about backyards. We should all be working in God's backyard. Where does God's back yard end?
I truely believe we are all called by God to make a difference in this world to many people. All of these people are children of God that need you to reach out. So go work in God's backyard! This might be in your church, 4 blocks away with children , elderly, or the poor, half way across your state, way down in Oklahoma or way up in Alaska, or maybe it is half way around the world in Africa. Wherever God calls you to go - get prepared and seek out the persons who have walked before you. We have so much to learn from each other. I would like to share with you the quote that is always at the bottom of a wonderful woman's email who opened the door for me in Haiti.

Now are you the body of Christ ~1 Cor. 12:27
Christ has no body now on earth but yours,
no hands but yours,
no feet but yours,
Yours are the eyes through which the compassion
of Christ is to look out on a hurting world.
Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good.
Yours are the hands with which he is to bless now. ~Teresa of Avila

Thank You! Thank you to all who have lived this life and continue to live to reach out in a hurting world.
Now go play, work, and love in God's backyard.