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Key Bible Verses: "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are so few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field" (Matthew 9:37–38, niv). Bonus Reading:Mark 4:34–36

After five days of revival at Wheaton College in 1995, 1,800 students crowded into a nextdoor church. When the microphones were opened for words of testimony, the student who stepped forward first said that God had put [today's Key Bible Verse] on her heart all day. She challenged her fellow students to thank God for His outpouring of love by committing themselves to work in the harvest fields.

Then a graduate student from Indonesia, Leo Sumule, testified that he had been unable to sleep all night. Led by the Holy Spirit, he prayed standing in front of the names of Wheaton graduates, listed by class year, who had gone into full-time cross-cultural missions. As he prayed and studied the names, he counted 127 men and women from the class of 1950—the last class that had experienced a powerful, multi-day revival.

With tears streaming down his face, Leo noted that he was here today because American missionaries went to Indonesia and led his grandfather and father into a life-changing relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. He then challenged the students to go and finish the task of world evangelism that their predecessors had begun.

—David Howard in From Wheaton to the Nations

My Response: How could I respond to the query below?

Thought to Apply: Are you sure you are within calling distance?

—Speaker (to young man sensing no call to missionary service)

Adapted from From Wheaton to the Nations (Wheaton College, 2001) by permission.

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