Visitor Testimony!
We have about 5000 amazing people come and visit us yearly! This is a testimony from Tony, who came to serve with us with his wife, all the way from Australia!
When God made a way for us to travel to We Will Go Ministries, I knew that it was going to be an exciting time as well as challenging one. Hearing the stories of our friends that had been before, whetted my appetite for what could possibly happen. My prayer was to be immersed in a missionary community that had love as their motivation for all they did, regardless of any opposition, and wow did that happen.
After day two of working in the Fountain, I felt I had come to the end of myself and was saying to God “I don’t just want to get through this, I don’t want to do this absent of love, I want to love like You do. I don’t just want to do the external things right without having Your heart”. That afternoon Miss Mariah shared that if you are struggling with the behaviour and actions of the kids, just ask Jesus how He sees them, so I did, and He did. That was the turning point, seeing how Jesus saw them right now, the amazing potential that hasn’t fully been realised yet was enough. No actions or attitudes could make that image of how Jesus sees each one diminish. I was able to see them as He saw them, love them with His unconditional love and not with my conditional love.
I always knew that God loved everyone, but being able to see how He saw people even when they were not always behaving that way was incredible. Love is the answer and love does not fail, I am a life that has been changed by love and is being filled and fuelled by love to love all my neighbours, whether in Jackson Mississippi, here in Lismore Australia or anywhere else in between.
Every part of what we got to share in was amazing, from cleaning, spending time with the neighbours, hearing from the incredible missionaries who had answered the call to go. Hearing David and Amy Lancaster share their journey, what it looked like in the beginning to what it has grown to now, what God has done and how He is leading – this was just a masterclass in discipleship.
My time at We Will Go has embedded a new sense of what serving your community looks like, and what discipleship really is. Being around people who hang around with Jesus and have His heart is just so good. Praying that Father lets me get back there one day, with all of my family.
If you would like to come and see us, and see what God can do in your heart as you serve in Downtown Jackson, please email us! visitus@wewillgo.org.