Captain’s Blog

#68 SINGAPORE

April 30, 2008 on 11:34 am | In Uncategorized | Comments Off

ASIA PACIFIC REGIONAL HQ

Amazing time in Singapore! God has provided great leadership for the Asia Pacific Region with Verne and Natalie Ward together with a super administrative team. Their passion for taking Christ to the lost here where God has sent us, is contagious. Our time with them was priceless! To be able to go to Singapore, Cindy and I managed to trick the Johnsons in Australia into taking our two children for two weeks… please be in prayer for the Johnson’s recovery. We believe that even successfully raising seven children did not adequately prepare them for Danielle and Quinton:) Our time in Singapore was filled to the brim. Missionaries from all corners of this Region thrown together with the Regional team… makes for one UNIQUE collection of people. Each one called of God, each one with obvious strengths and weakness, each one challenged to dig deeper, stand firmer, pray harder, believe stronger, trust God further… and know without a shadow of doubt that in these last days He really is building His Kingdom to the ends of the earth and the Gates of Hell will not prevail as we respond like never before to His charge!

AMAZING RACE

Among countless activities, at one point missionaries were thrown into multiple teams of three, making sure no spouses were together. These teams were each given seven sealed envelopes and sent out on an ‘Amazing Race’… only this race included breaking through barriers with strangers, talking to anybody and everybody, finding out who they were, where they came from, what they believed, hopefully talking to them about a God who decided He would rather die than live without them! Getting our photo’s taken with them. Finding out some local secret that we needed to know to get to the next place. This was done on the buses, the trains and along the walkways and businesses through the City of Singapore. All of the teams including the one that Cindy was on… lost! My team won!!… later I was told that that was “Not The Point Harmon!” Very well thought out and greatly used of God. Why not try it in your town as a missions exercise??

TALENT

Our last three days in Singapore, focused on stewardship, including time with Doug Carter. God is a giver. He calls us to follow Him. Are we givers or not?

‘When each of us stand before God, He will not be asking us about our sin because that’s covered with the Blood of Christ. No!… the subject will be stewardship. He will call us to account for that which He entrusted to us. The talents. The time. The resources. The money. The things He placed into our hands during this lifetime. Did we bury them? Did we hold on tightly to it all and call it wisdom? Were we sporadic or cyclical in how we handled it all…. or did we learn to sow wherever He prompted, even extravagantly? Did we invest, trusting Him, where moth and rust could never destroy, where thieves could never break in and steal?? On that day will we gain His approval… “Well Done”??’

What an awesome way to live!!

Harmon

67 - 100 YEARS OF TECHNOLOGY

April 15, 2008 on 6:37 pm | In Uncategorized | Comments Off

NEW WEB SITE
Please pray for us as we continue to work hard toward the final countdown of launching our new expansive web site for this mission-field! This is going to be an awesome tool, tying together our Nazarene work in six Island nations - every missionary - who they are and what they do - all the blogs -  you name it. Our goal is to bring the people, ministries, cultures, countries, projects, passions, burdens and vision of what God is doing in and through us…   from way out here across this vast expanse of the South Pacific…   real time (or at least very close to real-time) right into your home or church or office.

MORE THAN THAT

But more, we have some ridiculous ideas of what we want to see happen with the Melanesia and South Pacific Fields. We really do want to bridge the gap with you. We want to recognize that this Kingdom really is all about ‘FAMILY’!!  It is about the genuine relationships between all of us, because of Christ.  You  really are part of our family, and we really are part of yours. Technology today is a tool that can do what could have never been imagined - not so long ago.

ONE YEAR

There is documentation of my great-grandfather, as a missionary, sending a letter with various concerns, from Swaziland to our Headquarters in K.C.

A response was sent off to him within less than 2 weeks from receiving his letter. He received the reply back in Swaziland, almost exactly one year to the day from when he had send his letter.

LESS THAN A SECOND

These days, through our lap tops we do video conferencing across the ocean and around the world,  real-time! You move your lips and I see them move and hear your voice…  Amazing.