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The Netherlands

I think the biggest lesson I learned is that the average person is not going to come to know Christ through a one-time meeting. Occasionally, God allows us to see a person come to Christ in our first meeting with him or her. That has nothing to do with our skills for evangelism or the tracts that we use or anything. It is purely a blessing and from the grace of God that He allows us to see that the key of evangelism, the key to world missions and especially working with some of these foreign cultures comes down to relationships and friendships. It is one thing to give them a Bible and say this is who I believe God is and what I believe God said. It is another thing to actually show them that through your own life and let them see that it is real. From their own culture and from their own religions they see power, they see corrupted men and they see empty laws that even when they are abided by they don't really bring you anything. What they are looking for is a real relationship with God, something that changes their life in a way that they can't describe other than God Himself coming in.

It takes spending time with them, being willing to laugh with them, cry with them, to eat with them, spend time in their home and inviting them into your home. That's the biggest lesson, is to really pour ourselves into the people. You know that is what's going to give the words we speak creditability. It's when they can see God in us reflecting what we say God says.

–Rob –The Netherlands