https://www.lensculture.com/articles/madoka-ikegami-discovering-the-tsaatan-people I have a God sized dream in my heart. One that was given to me when I was four years old and has been refined and grown through the years. This isn't set in stone, things change, God transforms our dreams to His will. But this is what gets me up in the morning. This is the dream that I'm working towards.
Far North in Mongolia, on the Russian border is a people group. They are nomads and reindeer herders. This group is called the Tsaatan people. They are an unreached people group, meaning they do not have access to the Bible, church, or missionaries. The Tsaatan religion is shamanism. What broke my heart was when I read an article, I can't remember the exact article at the moment. In this article the author talked with the village shaman. The man had said that he didn't choose to be shaman, the spirits chose him. That statement was so hopeless and it shattered my heart to pieces. Since reading that article I've found new focus in school and new desire to train for the future God has called me to. My dream is to work with the Tsaatan people as often as I can. To do this I plan to move to Mongolia and study Mongolian language and culture for 1-2 years before moving to Mörön, Mongolia which is located in the Northern part of the country. Again this dream is fluid. It changes with what God truly wants for my life. But so far this is what God has given me through dreams and other people confirming. Who knows I may open the first Christian publishing company in Mongolia and visit the Tsaatan people once a month. (Yes that was part of my dream at one time). As for now, I will continue to study at Bethany and dream big dreams that only God can make possible.
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Why have I dedicated my life to missions? It all started when I was four years old and missionaries came to my private Christian school. They must have said something pretty extraordinary, because the next thing I know, I'm in the car telling my mother that the little children of Asia can't learn about Jesus. I told her that it was wrong and I was going to go tell them. When my mother offered to have us pray about it I retorted, "No mom, I'm gonna go."
From that moment on, God was fanning a fire in me. Everything that happened in my life was preparing me for the mission field. And through these years, God started with a continent then placed a country in my mind, until he finally put a people group on my heart. As time goes on, the God dream gets more and more specific. So why should you follow God's call to missions? (This is for those who are feeling a tug on their heart to missions. Some are not called to missions, some are called to be senders and some are called to be prayer warriors.) God will refine the dream He's given you in time. Jesus calls us to missions in Matthew 28:19-20 19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." If you feel a call to missions don't hesitate, go. Go to training, go raise a team of support, go to the field. Training is vital to the survival of missionaries. With training, the mission field will be hard, without training the mission field will be harder. I've been to the field without training, I felt unprepared and confused most of the time. It made long term missions very difficult and I ended up coming back to receive more training. All in all missionaries are being called and very few are answering. I urge you to seriously consider missions and pray whole heartedly about it with God. There are 17,424 people groups in the world... with 7,410 of those people groups unreached (with no access to the Bible, the church, or missionaries). Now is the time to finish the great commission. Now is the time to go. Will you answer the call? |
AuthorI am a missionary. Currently studying at Bethany Global University. The ultimate God dream is to go to Mongolia. I believe God has called me to minister to the Mongolian nomads, they are the unreached people of our world. With over 3 million people in Mongolia, there are only around 70 churches. These churches are all in cities, thus leaving the nomads on their own. I am a missionary, this is my calling, and this is my story. Please Contact me to find out how to donate.Archives
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