I went to the mission field with fears that were as big as my dreams. The Gospel changes people’s lives and eternal destiny. How could I not even try to reach as many people as I could with the good news of Jesus Christ?
And so we went.
But it wasn’t long that I realized that I could barely speak the language. So how in the world could I reach people for Christ when I couldn’t even communicate with them?
And so I studied. Well, actually…we studied.
Trying to learn a new language wasn’t easy in my mid forties… even harder for my 53 year old husband. But we dug in and kept trying. After all, we had a world to reach. At least our little corner of it. And we weren’t going to give up because of something as trite as a little language barrier.
And so we started reaching out to people in the community with the handful of words we had accumulated.
Before we left for the mission field, God had given me a big heart for reaching women for Christ and ministering to those who know Him.
Crossing a border into a foreign land didn’t change that. In fact… it intensified it.
And so I looked for ways I could reach the women God placed in my path.
That’s when I realized that reaching women on the mission field wasn’t much different than reaching women in the states. God’s Word already had an answer for that.
Titus 2.
A beautiful plan to impact women for Christ and I didn’t even realize it.
Take a minute and read Titus 2:3-5 with new eyes.
“the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things— 4 that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.”
- Older Christian women… live lives that honor God and point people to Jesus.
- Then begin teaching women how to love their husbands. (Who’s teaching this anyway? Why not?)
- To love their children. (Maybe you thought you didn’t need this one, but experience will show you otherwise.)
- Teach them to be discreet. (Can I get an AMEN on that one?)
- To be chaste – pure. (Hard in this anything-goes culture.)
- Homemakers – managers of their homes. (This is a tough one too. But SO needed.)
- Good. (Kindness in a world that applauds brassy and brazen women.)
- Obedient to their own husbands. (Yeah…it says obedient. Not popular. But biblical.)
That’s when The MOM Initiative was conceived. As I looked at the longing faces of women I didn’t know, I saw in their lives the same thing I saw in my life and in the lives of women around the world. The desire to love and be loved… the need to be accepted… a yearning to see their children grow up with hope for a better life… and the passion to know their life counts for something.
Those precious women were no different than any other woman I had ever met and Titus 2 was a way in which I could enter into a relationship with women who didn’t know Jesus and have the opportunity to share the love of Christ with them.
So, as I started trying to mentor the women there, it occurred to me that if I wanted to reach the children in that area, I needed to reach the moms who were raising them.
If we could impact the mother’s with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, then we would see the Gospel take root in, not only the moms, but the children they were raising… impact the community and that culture for the Lord Jesus Christ.
There it was… a ministry that could literally change the world.
It’s what I longed for when I was on the mission field and what I longed for when I lead women’s ministries in the states.
A plan, a resource, training and support to help me reach women for Christ.
That’s why The MOM Initiative exists…to help you develop a tailor-made plan, to think way outside the box, to offer training and support – to help you change the world by reaching moms with the Gospel of Jesus Christ… by offering hope to women in need… by teaching women job skills, life skills, parenting skills, and most of all hope through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
It’s why I wrote The Making of a Mom. Not to sell books but to give missionaries, ministry leaders, and moms an all-in-one resource to reach moms for Christ and to minister to those who know Christ – to make mentoring missional.
Before we went to the mission field, I didn’t realize that Titus 2 was not only an amazing way to leave a legacy of faith for those who believe, it’s also a powerful evangelistic tool to reach moms for Christ.
If you’re a ministry leader, a missionary, or a woman who is audacious enough to take the Titus 2 challenge to change the world one mom at a time, we re here for you!
For more info about how we can help you minister WAY outside the box and reach moms for Christ, please email us at info@themominitiative.com.
God has given us just one life to make a difference. Now is the time to do what you were created for…change the world.
Let’s change the world with the days God has given us under the sun.
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