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Our home church, CrossRoad Church, officially commissioned us to go as missionaries yesterday. It was good to feel supported and encouraged in that way as Pastor Kevin Griffin blessed us and my upcoming journey. “Missionary” means sent one, so this was a significant pronouncement. Coincidentally it was the congregation’s 25th anniversary as a church body, so it was a special blessing to be presented on such an occasion.

The service was broadcast by Livestream, and remains available at https://www.facebook.com/CrossRoadChurchJax/videos/1574275832767262/. We are introduced at 22:45 on the recording. There were some technical issues with the pastor’s microphone, but hopefully you will understand the context and hopefully hear the blessing enough to add your “amen” to it.

Thanks to all who came by, prayed for, encouraged, or came on board as financial partners!

Scriptures:

“Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”” (reference the Good Samaritan)

Luke 10:37 NIV

“He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.”

Mark 16:15 NIV

““A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”

John 13:34 NIV

“Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.””

Matthew 28:18-20 NIV

“He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”

Luke 10:2 NIV

“And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!””

Romans 10:15 NIV

Link to verses on Bible Gateway

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There are too many relationships to capture in a collage, but this one serves as representative for them all.

It was hard to say farewell to my work family at the Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville Adult Emergency Department. I can’t be in two places at once, so I had to tear myself away to get ready for deployment. I must have torn a piece of my heart in the process because I’ve been grieving ever since. I know I have attachment issues, but these people have really made me at home and I will miss them.

I tried to make everyone I worked alongside feel a part of something bigger. We worked hard but had fun in the process. Many mornings when 6 o’clock came around, I broadcast “The Final Countdown” on our radio badge system to signal the nearing end of our 7 to 7 shift. I did it so much it became our closing theme. Thursday morning after my last shift, while we were gathered at a popular after-work hangout, that song by Europe played overhead, as if to close out a perfect farewell.