Missions Conference

Ok so its been like a week and a half since my last post (this sentence is becoming a regular appearance, well sentences of apology for how awful I am at keeping this up to date) Missions Conference and the study/reading days have come and gone, I have suffered from a severe lack of sleep and now im back to classes again, its all go once again here on the campus of Moody Bible Institute, Chicago. Midterms and final paper deadlines are beginning to enlarge on the horizon of the near future and all people seem to be doing is reading or studying or both (myself included), so this has been a good relief from the stress of cramming information into my already overheating brain.

So missions conference was pretty average to be honest. There was a procession on the first night when all the international students marched up to the front of the auditorium carrying their nations flag, it was pretty awesome but I was annoyed as they didn’t have a flag for wee Norn Iron, the coordinator of this whole event actually asked me to carry a tricolour. I kindly refused and then I just laughed at how people are so ignorant to the fact we are two separate countries in Ireland. But the thing that really grinds my gears is that some of the “typical, dumb Americans” will argue that it’s the same country. I have learnt to just let it go there is just no changing some people. So that’s my rant over. I have kind of gotten off the track here. Sorry!

So back to missions conference, the main speaker was pretty bad so the first night didn’t go down so well but the next few days as I went to my required seminars it seemed to be a little better. I think that I didn’t enjoy it as much as I could have because I heard this conference was supposed to be really good so my hopes and expectations were pretty high and after the first night I was just disappointed.

But don’t worry, the first day had its up-side, I got my social security number so now I can get all the pay that I am owed for working, so im waiting on a nice fat paycheck next week ☺

So in my last blog I wrote about how I was looking forward to watching lost again, and man I can see why I missed it so much, I have flown through the first half of the series on the days I was off and not attending the conference, it is immense. For all the people who haven’t been bitten by the bug of Lost, or 24 for that matter, WHY NOT?? Get it sorted.

Ok another think that’s been on my heart since I have been here is the simple question why? Not like why am I here or what on earth have I let myself in for. Just simply why? I have talked to a lot of different people and heard a lot of different testimonies over that last few months and some of the stuff that has been shared just makes me wonder WHY?
I have heard a few cases of people who have been molested, raped and abused (not mentioning any names) When I hear of this it makes me so angry, it makes me boil up inside and ask the question: Why are people so twisted, sick and corrupt?

Why…?
…Is the world SO corrupt?
…Do people hate Humanity?
…Is there no love? But so much hatred despair and dehumanizing?
…Will there be an end to all this suffering?
…Are people so twisted? So depraved?

Will we ever see an end to this, will there ever be a radical change?

We Need…
…A Revival
…A Revolution
…An Army
…A Generation

We need a generation of people, young and old, who are going to reach out to the unloved, who are going to stretch out their loving hands. Show love to those who don’t know it. Show compassion to those who are in desperate need of it. Who will draw near to the broken. Heal the hurting. Feed and water the hungry and thirsty.

“I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.” Matthew 25v45

We need this revival, this revolution; we need to put into a forward motion so we can start making a change for the better. WE NEED IT NOW. We have to raise an army so we can fight with the battle of brokenness, depravity and corruption of this world. We cant st back any longer and hum and ha at the News reports of the devastation going on in front of our very noses, we need to put this into action and do something.

IT STARTS WITH US we cant just let others do it all.