A Lifetime of Mission Trips

The above feature photo was made on one of the Kenya Mission Trips of a Masai boy shepherd with his “rod and staff” (that knife would be his “rod”) protecting, defending and guiding his sheep like Psalm 23:

Psalm 23

A psalm of David.

1 The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
2     He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
3     he refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths
    for his name’s sake.
4 Even though I walk
    through the darkest valley,a]
I will fear no evil,
    for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
    they comfort me.

5 You prepare a table before me
    in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
    my cup overflows.
6 Surely your goodness and love will follow me
    all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord
    forever.

All of these mission trips helped form who I am almost as much as anything else. They brought together my sense of adventure with my strong desire to serve God, his people and maybe somewhat fulfill my college-days sense of “calling” to missions. Multiple circumstances kept me from becoming a full-time missionary other than my 3 years in The Gambia at the end of my career. Thus this is how I was a missionary during much of my adult life.

Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.

~William Carey

 

Mission Trip Pages, Stories, Journals  (Galleries below)

On the Purus River near Aruma, Amazonas, Brasil, August 20, 2006

Mission Trip Photo Galleries (29)

Travel Pages Where I Did Mission Trips

(with some overlap of the above pages)

Kwangwa, Tanzania on November 8, 2005

Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

Isaiah 6:8
 
In Paricatuba, Amazonas, Brazil, August 19, 2006.
 

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