When I began to follow wherever He leads

I was led to construction ministry in 1987 and since that time have been blessed with the opportunity to be involved with the construction of and repairs or additions to dozens of church buildings and facilities.

Since 1993 I have been involved with over 50 World Changers projects, had the opportunity to help meet construction needs in Jamaica, Honduras, Nicaragua and helped with repairs to flood damaged homes in McDowell Co. West Virginia. Through The James Ministry of Summit Baptist Church I have been able to share the love of Christ in a personal way with the elderly, widowed and single parents in my surrounding community.  In doing so have had my life changed as well as having had the chance to minister to hundreds of people. God has blessed me with the opportunity to work with thousands of teenagers and adults. He has given me the chance to share Him with young and old, Christian and non-Christian; He has allowed me to be His servant by allowing me to follow wherever He leads.

Each trip has been a new experience, a new challenge, another step following The Master. Each step takes me a little closer to who and what He wants me to be. The spiritual fellowship can not be described nor the blessings counted. Each year I say it can’t get any better, yet each year, brings me closer to Christ and the closer I get the better it gets.

I have a hard time finding the words to describe the feeling one gets when an eighty year old widow tells you how long she has been praying for a way to have her leaky roof repaired. Nor how to describe how you feel when you are told how much of a blessing you have been. There in no way to tell someone how you shared the gospel with young children in a home where Jesus was never taught, nor the joy you feel when a lost sheep is brought to The Shepherd. I’ve seen people who were never able to get from their homes without help, and the new handicap ramp allows them a new freedom.

When you follow Jesus and people see Christians doing something other than going to church it changes there way of thinking about them. Many people may never see Jesus unless more people are willing to follow Christ’s example and go wherever He leads and minister to those less fortunate than we are.

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 Clyde

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You did not do anything to achieve your salvation, but you must do something to exhibit it. You must "work out your own salvation" which God has worked in you already ( Philippians 2:12 ). Are your speech, your thinking, and your emotions evidence that you are working it "out"? If you are still the same miserable, grouchy person, set on having your own way, then it is a lie to say that God has saved and sanctified you.