In approximately 24 hours, a group of Florida State Chi Alpha students and staff will be meeting at a church, loading our bags, and climbing into a van to depart on a 15ish hour drive to Fort Worth, Texas. We will be attending the third World Mission Summit, a missions-based conference that National Chi Alpha organizes every four years. Chi Alpha students and missionaries from all over the world will descend on the great city of Ft. Worth for three days of worship, teaching, and learning more about missions around the world. Students will have the awesome opportunity to talk one-on-one with missionaries and hear about what God is doing through their ministry. They will hear about opportunities for them to "give a year (to missions) and pray about a lifetime (in missions)." They will eat meals with a missionary and have a chance to ask questions. And most importantly, they will have an opportunity to open their hearts and lives to God and ask Him where He would like them to serve, whether it be as a missionary overseas or as a missionary in the workplace.
Chi Alpha staff from all over the U.S. have been praying about this conference for quite some time now- for the students who will attend and for the missionaries who will share. Please join us in prayer for safe travels and for hearts that will be open to what God wants to speak through the missionaries. Be in prayer for all of the students who will be attending- that they will receive what God has in store for them over the next three days and how He wants to use this conference to mold and shape their lives for His glory. The theme for WMS3 is "Because I Care"- pray that these students will begin to care about God's people all over the world, not just in their tiny corner. Pray that the Holy Spirit will move in mighty ways throughout this conference. Pray that God will rock these students' worlds and shake them out of a complacent mentality.
I can't tell you how excited I am to experience this conference again, but "on the other side," as a staff member! I attended WMS2 in 2008, during my senior year of college and to this day, remember lessons that God taught me through the conference that were essential to grow my faith. Even as I have reflected and shared with students about my WMS experience over the last few months, I have realized even more ways God used this conference to shape and mold me. I can't wait to see what He does this year!
