Where's Waldo/Judy?

So thankful for around 150 volunteers that helped make call2all a success! 

 They served joyfully, tirelessly, cheerfully as unto the Lord!  

They blessed many lives! 

 A big thanks to each one of you! 

Call2all Chiang Mai

Call2all Chiang Mai is now history- and I feel like I could sleep for a week! :)  That's not possible though, as one week from today I will be travelling to the USA.  It was a week of early mornings and late nights and little rest in between, but it was all for the purpose of giving God glory and furthering His Kingdom here on earth. It was actually a great week and very rewarding!

After recruiting our 130 volunteers and helping with their day of training, I spent a lot of time at the "Connection Center" once the congress got started.  This was a table where people could come for anything like "I lost my name tag" to "I need a translator" to "I can't find my workshop room". The girls that I worked with were mostly our TCCC staff and I enjoyed everyday with them.  Their servant hearts encouraged me so much.  Moo and others  thanked me numerous times for giving her the opportunity to serve others.

The worship times were heavenly.  Each song was translated into English, Thai, Korean and Chinese, all singing at the same time with many other languages, too.  This was one of the bands that I recruited from Bangkok with some of our TCCC staff.

The Map Walk on Wednesday was an activity unique to Call2all and one that I enjoyed most.  A giant map of the world was spread out over the floor and for two hours more than 1000 people walked barefoot over the map as the MC led us in different ways to pray for the world and claim unreached areas for Jesus.  Wish you could have been there.

On the last day they had a Commitment Ceremony, when people turned in a form with their commitment to engage with unreached people groups, or help establish churches, or reach people with the Gospel message, etc.  After turning in their form, they were prayed for and then we entered the statistics and they were projected on the screen so delegates could see the numbers. We came away with increased faith for what God will do as we move toward "Finishing the Task".

Last night, Steve Douglass, the president of CCCI spoke in the plenary session.  Our northern TCCC staff were thrilled that he met with them personally before the session to appreciate them and share some of his testimony.  It was really a treat for them, and several of them told me afterwards how thankful they are for such a committed and loving leader.

Of course their favorite part of the evening was getting to take pictures with him and the few minutes they had for that was so funny!  Wish you could have watched them.  They were literally running up beside him by teams and families to get as many photos with him as possible.  He was such a good sport and found it pretty funny himself.  Love our staff so much!  I was so proud of them throughout this week.  They served endlessly with long schedules and yet were always so joyful and eager to help.  I know their lives were a testimony to many this week.  Praying for much fruit to come out of Call2all Thailand as delegates are still processing. It has been my privilege these last 5 months to work toward this congress, and now I'm eager to move on to our summer activities.

Call2all Thailand

Call2all Thailand is taking place right now.  We are almost finished with day #3 and  tomorrow will be the last. It is exciting to see people from so many nations and different groups engaging with each other in talking about fulfilling the Great Commission. For me the days have been long and the  nights have been short- but I am energized when I see our staff with such servant hearts, working so hard to help with this congress.  God's spirit is moving! More to come- but thanks for all your prayers thus far! 

Table 71

I had heard about Table 71 for years-- but watching this video gives me so much more excitement in really understanding what happened.  As I am spending more and more hours working for the upcoming Call2all congress, I feel so privileged to be involved in reaching this vision and task of taking the gospel message to every unreached group. I love to see these men recount how God sovereignly brought key leaders together to unite and strategize the fulfillment of the Great Commission.   I get tears in my eyes each time I watch it.  Hope it gives you hope and expectancy too!

call2all

This coming May 21-24, 2013 there will be a call2all congress right here in Chiang Mai.  Browse around their website here to get an idea of what this congress is all about.  If you don't want to take the time- the vision in a nutshell is: 

To network, train and focus the Body of Christ across the world to see the Great Commission completed in our life-time.

These congresses have taken place all over the world and now it's time for one in our region.  During this congress many different Christan groups will come together and plan  how we can work together.  It is not as productive for us to work individually on tasks when we can be supporting each other and partnering. Mike and I love to see different mission groups working together.

While there are thousands who have made commitments and are partnering in the Great Commission, some of the lead partners who are playing a major role in the call2all movement are:
Ywam
Campus Crusade for Christ
Wyliffe Bible Translators
OM International
IMB Connecting
The Jesus Film Project
International Orality Network
Global Short Film Network
and many more.

The congress is just three months away, and  an office has  been set up here in Chiang Mai where they need a lot of local volunteers to help make it happen.  I (Judy) have decided to help with this project part time.  I'll be going in two days/week and have been give the responsibility of "Communications Coordinator".  After praying about this challenge, I said yes because:
-I enjoy administrative tasks
-I take joy in seeing different groups come together to fulfill the Great Commission
-I like short term projects; ones where I can give it a lot of focus and see the end in sight.(ie: three months)
-I look forward to doing something for this short season that my giftings are in.

So there you go.  I got a new job! haha I'm excited about all that God is going to do through this congress and my involvement with it.  I'll keep you updated as I see God working to make it happen.