Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Slight Turn in the Road


My husband and I started a new journey a little more than two weeks ago. And we are very excited about it. We prayed about it. We fasted for it. We ask the Lord to guide and supply for our needs and He has done it faithfully. Our hearts are overflowing with gratitude to Him.

It has been for a while that we felt called to become medical missionaries. So we prayed and fasted and asked God to lead and show us what to do, where to go to get medical missionary training. This is how we ended up coming to Centurion Ministries in Tennessee. We are 2.5 weeks into our training. We have 1.5 weeks left and we are so happy with everything we have learned here so far.

We started realising more and more the importance of the medical missionary work for around a year. And we also realise that the Medical Missionary work will be one of the last two works that will be done until Jesus comes. And it is the thing that will open the door to many hearts that will not open to the Gospel otherwise. Read this inspiring quotes:

"We have come to a time when every member of the church should take hold of medical missionary work." CME 10

When one thinks that this quote was written in 1902, how much more relevant it is for us today! And this is only one of the many quotes that speak about this.

"Medical missionary work is the pioneer work of the gospel, the door through which the truth for this time is to find entrance to many homes. God’s people are to be genuine medical missionaries, for they are to learn to minister to the needs of both soul and body... As they go from house to house they will find access to many hearts. Many will be reached who otherwise never would have heard the gospel message." CCh 308

"I wish to tell you that soon there will be no work done in ministerial lines but medical missionary work... You will never be ministers after the gospel order till you show a decided interest in medical missionary work, the gospel of healing and blessing and strengthening...." Ev 523

"Some utterly fail to realise the importance of missionaries being also medical missionaries. A gospel minister will be twice as successful in his work if he understands how to treat disease.... A minister of the gospel, who is also a medical missionary, who can cure physical ailments, is a much more efficient worker than one who cannot do this. His work as a minister of the gospel is much more complete." Ev 519

We have ministered to souls to far. We have done prayer ministry. We have been giving bible studies and teaching people about God. But we realised that we are missing the medical missionary training in order to be fully equipped. So we are happy that God opened this door for us.

We love the training that we are getting and we would recommend anybody to join the four weeks training that lays a very good foundation for further study. It may seem short, but it is very intense and one would learn things that are not usually taught in other medical missionary schools. We love that it not only teaches you to be a medical missionary in an institution, to be a leader and to do the work on your own, to assess and treat naturally even the most difficult diseases like cancer in advanced stages. 

Pray for us as we are starting this journey and waiting for the Lord's leading when we are done. Even though there are still many things to figure out about our future, we know that it is going to be exciting working for God as medical missionaries.