Thursday, July 6, 2000
Thursday, July 6, 2000
As for you, always be sober, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, carry
out your ministry fully.
A few years later Steve was invited to El Salvador with a group from church. He didn't want to
go, but it seemed that whenever he prayed, he seemed to hear the words, "Go to El Salvador."
So he went. And while there, he felt another call: this time to become a missionary.
Again Steve and Pam prayed hard, trying to decide if they should quit their jobs, sell their home,
and move to El Salvador. Today that's where Steve, Pam and their three children live, helping the
people there and calling them to God.
We must love God enough that we are willing to make God's ministry our own, and work
towards it.
(2 Timothy 4:5
NRSV)
Shortly after Steve Kern graduated from college, he joined an oil company, relocated to a new
city, and met and married his wife, Pam. They were both nominal Christians: they read the Bible
and went to church, but they never sought God's guidance. Together Steve and Pam dreamed of
being rich and traveling all over the world. Then one day Steve accompanied his pastor to a
nearby neighborhood stricken with high unemployment. Something happened that day as Steve
helped to feed and clothe the starving people he found there. He knew, somehow, that this is
what God wanted him to do.
Dear God, help me to take the nominal out of my Christian faith. Amen.
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