Jonathan Carlson – Short Term Missionary to Maghreb
My name is Jonathan Carlson.*
The thought of becoming a missionary has been with me for several years. Initially I had made a commitment at a camp meeting to go out as a missionary to reach the unreached. Since then, life has taken many different twists and turns, including my conversion.
It has now been a few months since it occurred to me that my life did not match the biblical description of a Christian lifestyle. At the time, I was reading in the New Testament about the life of the apostles, Paul, and the early church. When I saw their lives of service filled with the love from above and their one objective to be faithful to Christ, I could not help but realize that my life did not correspond to their example. Knowing that things had to change, I refocused on my application with AFM, which I had started a while back, and committed to becoming a missionary with AFM.
I am so thankful to my Father in heaven, who has made it possible through the sacrifice of His son, Jesus Christ, that I get a chance to know Him and to be with Him. In this journey of getting to know God and keeping my eyes on Christ, the things of this earth are growing strangely dim. What matters to me is to know Him and to walk in His will.
I look forward to becoming a missionary with AFM. I know that I need this experience myself to keep growing in my walk with Christ, and I trust the Lord to instill His love for the unreached within me.
May His will be done in my life.
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