Jubilee Spring Retreat

So this past weekend was our church's Spring Retreat. I've been attending Jubilee Church for a couple of months now. I love it. Pastor David is absolutely brilliant...and hilarious, radical "normal", and very charismatic. He brings so much energy to the church. His little bro leads worship & it's incredibly amazing. So the retreat this past weekend was awesome. I'm still not exactly sure where it was (I'm not sure if anyone knows where we were exactly). I really didn't have any expectations about the retreat mostly because of the lack of info. I didn't know what to expect. I just knew God wanted me to go. The theme would be on missions, so of course, I was in! So the campus was beautiful! It was in the mountains, surrounded by trees & hiking trails (which Megan & I totally took advantage of!). The speaker was Michael Oh, he's Korean, raised in America & he's a missionary to Japan. I had no idea that Japan was the least evanglized nation in the world! When I think about Japan, I think of expensive & highly intelligent people! The thought of praying for Japan really hasn't crossed my mind (I'm embarrassed to say). But it's true! The Christian population in Japan is .02%!!! That is NOTHING!!! Wow! He also talked a lot about the 10/40 window and that we basically have 3 choices (2 really): Go, Send, or Disobey. Going is not hard for me. I've felt called to missions for many years now. I committed to going on a short-term mission trip & also to go for at least 1 year. I'm pumped! But it wasn't a hard commitment for me, I've know I was going to the mission field for long-term anyway! The hard part for me was the sending. I've always thought that since I feel called to missions that I would just 'go.'....but I was really convicted this past weekend, I need to also 'send' others to 'go'! So I made that commitment to God this past weekend. Now I just need to be faithful & trust that God will provide.
But it really got me pumped about going to school after Korea to study Islamic Studies & then to 'go'!!!