The missionary is called and sent to disciple souls as the Lord has commanded us to do. This can be done through several strategies as the Lord leads. One of the channels to make impact in a cross cultural missions is to teach the local people. This is either in the academia or through the word of God.
In this article, much emphasis will be laid on how the Lord has used missionaries to achieve feats on the field whiles teaching in the classroom. This teaching could be just in the classrooms, learning centers or any other place apart from the church. This means, the power of the Holy Spirit is not limited to the four walls of the church but wherever the Lord’s name shall be mentioned.
In January 2017, the Lord opened a missionary door for me in Mongolia as an English teacher in one of the prestigious private schools in Ulaanbaatar. That was my first time in the nation and as a matter of fact living with Buddhists. I didn’t know so much about Buddhism and their traditions. But I had a passion and a burden for the unsaved and the unreached.
At the beginning, I didn’t know how to chip in the Gospel in my conversation and in my professional work as a teacher. This was not allowed since it was a Buddhist community but one way or the other, some of the students were always around me and wanted to know more about my faith and belief. To my surprise , they had not heard so much about the gospel and the person of Jesus.
I took it to prayer to know how to share the gospel to these young Mongolian students in my class. I had an impression to use the Bible stories to be teaching them and specifically as reading materials in the form of comprehension and answering questions from the given text. I got the understanding from the spirit of God to use the book of Esther for the students to be reading daily as stories but not in a form of a bible reading contest. I used the modern English versions of the bible, took away the chapters and the verses and made it more of a reading text. This strategy became possible because I was given the liberty to prepare my own materials for teaching.
As a teacher you have a level of control on the students and they were mandated to learn it by heart and recite it the next day as an assignment. The Lord was working through this strategy. Listen to this carefully, the gospel carries the same power regardless of the means you are going to use to share it. Whether you preach it, sing it, write it, act it in a form of drama or movie, it carries the same power. Don’t be limited in the way you share the gospel in a cross-cultural environment. Allow the Holy Spirit to give you a strategy.
One morning, I was amazed when one Mongolian girl came to share with me how the text from the book of Esther was waking her up as early as 5am. Hearing the words in the book of Esther reechoing in her every morning. She decided to inquire more about where we I got all these text from. That opened the door to the preaching of the gospel.
This young Buddhist lady in Mongolia received this gospel and that was a turning point in her life with Christ. I understood the workings of the Holy Spirit as a missionary and it changed my perceptive if sharing my faith in any nation.
