While I sat in the nosebleed section of the U-S Airways Center (Phoenix, Arizona) during the National Fine Arts Festival celebration service, something clicked:
The Assemblies of God has their act together.
Who else gathers thousands of teens, youth leaders and parents in one place to discover, develop and deploy the gifts God placed in the church? Through Fine Arts Festival and Ambassadors in Mission (AIM) outreaches, they provide amazing opportunities that ultimately shape our future.
Typically, I participate in several categories for National FAF, but God had other plans for this summer. Through His leading, I became an AIMer devoted to making an impact on Phoenix. All week, our team worked with the Phoenix Dream Center to remodel their facilities.
What a different side to the normally busy week of performances! Every day AIMers saw former drug addicts worshiping God. Several of these “disciples,” as the Dream Center calls them, even shared their testimonies. They brought a whole new light to the meaning of redemption.
Seeing these men and women praise the Lord full-heartedly made me think about God’s purpose for His children. What if the workers at the Phoenix Dream Center said no to His plan for their lives? What if they turned away from Him, preferring their personal desires? Hundreds of broken people would die in despair, never receiving the opportunity to know a loving Savior.
God has placed powerful anointing on our generation. In the last days, He is calling missionaries, pastors, preachers, evangelists, teachers, doctors and more to proclaim His name throughout all of the earth. Will we listen?
Hurting people are relying on us to share God’s love with them. All we have to do is go.
“Then he said to his disciples, 'The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field'" (Matthew 9:37-38, NIV).
