A blog a day can be inspiring!

I am thankful for blogs. A college student from our church, Matt, has gone to Peru to be a student missionary for a year. He created a blog to record some of his experiences and the church passed along the address so members could keep up with his story. His writing style is interesting and informative and it has been a pleasure to read his occasional entries and see what his life as as a student missionary is like. He also has some followers that are also student missionaries who have blogs telling of their experiences in other places like Honduras. Those followers in turn have other student missionary followers who are blogging their stories. I have to make myself stop spreading the net out or I wouldn't have time to do much else but read student missionary blogs. The stories these young people tell are impressive. They usually don't have a lot of great things to talk about, they spend their days doing small services for those God has called them to help. They are honest in their writings, so you get a sense of the frustrations as well as the joys they have as they deal with other cultures from Egypt to Peru to Honduras to the Marshall Islands. Some of them are together at the same places, so you even get different perspectives sometimes of the same incidents that happen at the schools or clinics they are teaching at or doing their medical work at. God is using these youth to show His love to individuals in ways that will be eternal blessings to both the student missionaries as well as the people they impact each day. I have known since I was in college that student missionaries were being sent to far away places, but I had never given much thought to their stories unless one of them spoke about their experiences when they got back home for a mission report or something. It is so fascinating to read their stories as they write what happens from day to day. I am blessed when I read their blog entries and I am inspired by what these youth are doing for God. I anonymously thank each one for taking the time to write about their student missionary life so others can see the things Gos is doing all over the world using special people who are willing to let God stretch them from their comfort zones to serve others. I praise God that He uses each of us if we are willing to be used where we are.