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My wife Mandy and I both grew up in small towns looking forward to living the “American Dream.” I wanted to be a professional baseball player and Mandy wanted a nice home, nice cars, and nice kids. Although we were both Christians, neither of us realized how big God really was or that He had been working out a plan to redeem people from all nations from the beginning of time. While I was playing baseball professionally with the New York Mets and Mandy was going to nursing school to secure the “dream”, God totally interrupted both of our lives by revealing to us, through His word, this master plan. Sure we knew about “missions,” but never realized that God was actually on a mission, nor did we realize that it is His desire was for every believer, including us, to play a part in accomplishing it. Hatley, from The Traveling Team, sat down and shared the Biblical Basis of Missions with us. It blew our minds to see the Bible as one book with one theme, and that was God blessing all nations with the salvation that comes through faith in Jesus Christ. What also amazed us was that God made a promise to Abraham in Genesis 12 to bless all nations and in Revelations 7:9 that promise is kept – “After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before that throne and before the Lamb…” We are living right now in the gap between Genesis 12 and Revelations 7! God is working right before our very eyes! Now, we’ll both admit that at first I was a little more excited about all of this, but we both knew that God’s desire was to have both of our hearts in line with His. If this was God’s desire, then we both wanted to know more. That’s when we decided to go with The Traveling Team to the summer IT Project 09’ in Los Angeles, CA. God changed our lives forever. As a result, God created two people with one passion – seeing Christ worshiped where He’s never been named.  We are planning to join New Tribes Missions in January of 2010 and start the process of going overseas as full time missionaries to work among tribal people who have no clue about their Savior.  In the short time that we have here at home, we hope to impact our family, friends, church, coworkers, and anyone else who has ears with the truth from God’s word about His amazing Son and His desire to reach all nations with His salvation. We want all Christians to live as World Christians - people who have discovered the truth and need of God's unfulfilled global purpose to reach all peoples. We want them to realize that as Christians they are responsible to act, pray, think, and believe according to their knowledge of this truth. Jesus Christ is worthy of our lives, is He worthy of yours?

Jeremy and Mandy

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