Ultimately, Missions is not a humanitarian effort to help suffering people, nor is it a frantic and hopeless effort to spread fanatic religious ideas.

Missions is God's sovereign and unstoppable plan to draw people from all tongues and nations to himself (John 10:16). It is the carrying of the best news in the world; namely that there is reconciliation to God from his wrath, and an adoption to God by his love.

It is our awesome privilege to spend our energies and our lives for this high cause-- God does not need us, but rather he chooses to use weak people like us to carry and proclaim this eternally priceless message.

We do not go to Africa because we desire to be exotic tourists or earn stars on our Christian crown. We go because the message is worth telling at any cost and at any distance. The value that we place in the Gospel is validated by the efforts we exert to see it proclaimed and spread. We hope that this summer- whether in an African village or downtown San Jose- our lives will reflect that we value the Gospel to biblical proportions.