As believers we know that God expects us to share the Good News of His love and eternal salvation with others. Some people step out on faith and take God’s word to the world as missionaries. Most Christians never take that step, either in the belief that God is sovereign and doesn’t need our help, or - more likely - because we feel we lack the gifts of evangelism.

The truth is that God doesn’t care about how gifted or talented or good looking we might be - He only cares that we are obedient. In the early 1900’s a young, uneducated parlor maid named Gladys Aylward felt called to preach the Gospel in China. Too poor for the ship fare, she traveled overland by train, then bus, then mule, ending up in the city of Yangchen where no one had ever seen a European.

Over the next two decades and through World War II she shared the love of Christ through tireless service to the Chinese people. Her remarkable story is remembered through books and the movie “The Inn of the Sixth Happiness.”

Whatever our gifts or status in life, God wants us in the missions field, bringing Good News, just as we are. If you have a story about reaching your world as a missionary we would love to hear it. Please drop me a note at radio@palau.org.