A Lifetime of Mission Trips

Nearing 60 and still on mission

Nearing sixty years old and looking back makes you reflect to what has made your life so wonderful and useful. Besides being a minister with congregations through the years, the most wonderful times have been the times that I spent weeks with teenagers doing missions or learning about missions.

From Gulfport leading a BSU group from East Carolina University or from the local churches that I have pastored, I find myself continuing to build many wonderful memories. Seeing youth learn to share Christ as they help in repairing homes, or learning about missions. As I look into the mirror and find my hair leaving and white, my heart beat is still having those opportunities once or twice a year to be a part of a life changing week.

Whether it be disaster relief, World Changers, Associational mission trips for VBS, local ministry projects, I find the desire, strength and love for missions to rise up to meet the demand of the task. As the old saying goes, "If you hang around youth, you will feel younger."

Aging is a physical process and does effect one each year but the Spirit of Missions never grows old. What is my plan as the years go on? Mission involvement!

 Submitted by: Rev. Ken Cobb