A recent email made me smile.  My friend Ann had noted a Facebook post by a friend and they had been texting each other about an upcoming mission trip. Ann was eager for me to know that things learned in missions as a child were still having an impact. She even sent a screen shot of their texting with each other.

Ann wrote:
Last night a friend from Oakland Ave Baptist Church posted on Facebook about about getting ready to go to Ecuador for her 12th year. I asked what group she went with, etc., etc. Tonight I was reading in Genesis where God blessed Issac and he reaped a hundredfold of what he planted. I prayed for a hundredfold for WMU age level organizations at Lone Oak First Baptist Church in terms of mission education and future missionaries and for a hundredfold on the mission trip to Brazil from LOFBC that I’m participating in.  I wondered, “how can we have a hundredfold?”  Then the Lord reminded me of the conversation with Judy from Oakland Avenue Baptist Church last night!  Attached is a screen shot of the last part of our conversation.  Judy and I are part of the hundredfold that Dorothy Crace and other leaders at Oakland Avenue reaped! Praise the Lord!  

If you are a missions education leader with preschoolers, children, or students, thank you! You have no idea what will be the outcome of your investment today in the lives of those you teach.

Heather Keller, Children’s Consultant with National WMU, asks churches what outcomes do they want to see in 20 years in the lives of the children they are reaching. What do they want their children to value as adults? That is taking the long view of what we do today!  The online conversation between Ann and Judy shows that Heather is on to something!