that God wanted us to be. She started dreaming of going to the “10-40 Window” as a missionary and I didn’t know what to do with my life in that time. So I left my house to live and work in Ensenada for a few years. Later I met a group from YWAM and when I was in my DTS, God revealed Himself in my life and called me to missions. In 2008 while I was in Africa, Silvia wrote me telling me that she was in Tijuana doing her DTS and that she wanted to be a missionary in an unreached country. Maybe it would be in a place in Africa o in the Middle East. Without money nor visas, she began trusting that God would tell her a place and would provide all the means to get there. A couple months ago she told me about a school of missions that would be for two years in the Arabian Desert in a place called “Jordan”. This news filled me with happiness and excitement to know that my sister was going to go there.
I still remember watching her leave home to live with some rancher families in the mountains in Baja California Sur in the “Sierra de Santa Martha”. Silvia was 19 years old when she knew that God had called her to be a missionary. Not knowing what the future had for her, she took the first step of obedience as she walked onto an old road full of cactus and hundreds of crossing goats. Later she returned home and then went to start a small mission in a fishing community called "La Bocana" in the Pacific Coast of the peninsula. With the help of our church and other church members they were going to raise a building with a roof made by palm leaves to make a small church. And to see my sister doing what God called her to, I felt motivated to do something like that as well or maybe something different. God also was calling me to serve Him fulltime but I didn’t know where He wanted to bring me nor how to start. For a few years, Silvia and I were a little distant from each other and it seemed that nothing was happening in our lives. It seemed like the day would never come when we would be in the place that God wanted us to be. She started dreaming of going to the “10-40 Window” as a missionary and I didn’t know what to do with my life in that time. So I left my house to live and work in Ensenada for a few years. Later I met a group from YWAM and when I was in my DTS, God revealed Himself in my life and called me to missions. In 2008 while I was in Africa, Silvia wrote me telling me that she was in Tijuana doing her DTS and that she wanted to be a missionary in an unreached country. Maybe it would be in a place in Africa o in the Middle East. Without money nor visas, she began trusting that God would tell her a place and would provide all the means to get there. A couple months ago she told me about a school of missions that would be for two years in the Arabian Desert in a place called “Jordan”. This news filled me with happiness and excitement to know that my sister was going to go there. Today I live with my wife in the Dominican Republic and a few days ago my sister left to live in the Middle East to complete a dream that God put in her heart when she was a young girl. She told me that I have been an example to her in the area of missions. But for me she has been one of my biggest inspirations since I was a teenager. God has been good to both of us and I have to say that God has used a small church of 40 people in the town in the Baja California peninsula, so that missionaries can go to make God known inside Mexico and beyond.
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bBen in San Diego
9/10/2011 07:35:18 am
Thanks Dan;
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