We apologize for the mis-spelling (you know which word if you saw it) in the last edition of this post. 🙂
We had an opportunity (Monday the 17th) to share with four college classes at Geneva College about missions and our ministry to Papua New Guinea. This was fun and exciting, a little nostalgic for Nicole (she was in their seats just 3 years ago), and of course nerve racking. This was a very humbling opportunity, but we took it anyways with the hope and intention to challenge young people into full-time missions and raise the awareness of unreached people groups around the world.
We shared in a Matthew class, a Greek class, a Globalism class as well as an English class. We tried to connect each class to their respective subjects. Trying to tie the purpose and privilege of studying the book of Matthew to missions was pretty easy seeing that the conclusion of the book is the Great Commission 🙂 . The English class was a last minute add-in; we tied in the value of literacy and how we have so many tools here in America that we take for granted. We taught the students that typically all unreached people groups are illiterate; meaning they cannot read or write their own language. We take so much for granted here in America, we pray we use our abundant blessings to fulfill God’s task to reach this world with His glory. One of those ways is to use our resources (technology, information, finances, medicine, personnel, etc.) not for ourselves and be a dam of blessings, but to be conduit of blessings and flow to the whole world.
We had a great time at Geneva; we met up with several friends and made other new friendships. God is so good to us, He even provides friends along our journey to encourage us. Only our God could ever be so thoughtful!
PRAY we were able to challenge (even just one person) someone into full-time missions, and that the others were challenged to be a part of full-time missions in some way for a lifetime. Thank you for your constant support and partnership.
Sincerely, Seth & Nicole Stokes, your feet to the unreached. Romans 15:20
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