~Some Thoughts to Meditate on Today!

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**Note!
I do not know the extent of the following people's relationship or experience with God, however I do believe they had a calling of God upon their life. One day I hope to publish a post of profound and powerful statements that have come from UPCI missionaries. If you have heard or read things that would qualify please e-mail them to me. E-mail address is jpowell@wdfmd.com.

"Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist." -- Oswald J. Smith

"Missions is not the 'ministry of choice' for a few hyperactive Christians in the church. Missions is the purpose of the church." -- Unknown

"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose" -- Jim Elliot, missionary martyr who lost his life in the late 1950's trying to reach the Auca Indians of Ecuador

"If God calls you to be a missionary, don't stoop to be a king" -- Jordan Groom (variations of this also credited to G. K. Chesterson, Thomas Carlyle and Charles Haddon Spurgeon)

When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back, saying, "You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages." To that, Calvert replied, "We died before we came here."

"Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ." -- Francis Xavier, missionary to India, the Philippines, and Japan

"The true greatness of any church is not how many it seats but how many it sends!" – Unknown

"The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed" -- Hudson Taylor

"If I had 1,000 lives, I'd give them all for China" -- Hudson Taylor

"If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?" -- David Livingstone

"If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him." -- C.T. Studd

"The mission of the church is missions" -- Oswald J. Smith

"The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity." -- Mike Stachura

"Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is -- where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge." -- Robert C. Shannon

"If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small." -- Pat Morley

Please continue to pray for and support our missionaries through your PIM giving, sacrifical offerings and financial support for projects on the Mission field. They are counting on YOU today!