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Key Bible Verse: "We have the LORD our God to help us and fight our battles for us!" (2 Chronicles 32:8). Bonus Reading:Psalm 18:37-45

I remember the day Mr. [Cameron] Townsend came into my office in 1945," recalls José Jiménez Borja, then an assistant to Peru's Minister of Education. "He presented the most ridiculous plan I'd ever heard. He wanted to go into the jungle with a group of linguists to learn the languages of the people, form alphabets, and teach the people how to read and translate the Bible into those languages. He wanted my blessing on this impossible project. Our conversation went like this:

Mr. Townsend, who's going to do all this work?

It will be done by trained linguists—young men and women with college degrees willing to spend their lives among indigenous peoples.

This is a difficult task. How many are willing to go?

None, yet. But when I go back to the North America and challenge them, many will volunteer.

The jungle is impossible. How will you get those people out to the villages?

I plan to use airplanes to land on the rivers and airstrips that can be cleared in the jungle.

How many planes do you have?

None. But when I share the need, God will give us enough planes."

—Bernie May in JAARS Beyond

My Response: An off-the-wall dream of mine is …

Thought to Apply: Attempt great things for God. Expect great things from God

—William Carey (British missionary to India, 18th century)

Adapted from: JAARS beyond (1-2/02) by permission.

Copyright © 2002 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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