Mark Gillmore: Hello and welcome to the Go Mission podcast.

I’m Mark Gilmore, and it’s my privilege here to be with you today.

And joining us is a very awesome family, or part of the family, the Chris Sanderlin family and two of the oldest boys, Gabe and Ben.

And they have been, for the last year, on quite an exciting gospel adventure of language learning and preparation for missionary ministry.

And Chris, good to have you here.

Yes, good to be here.

Thanks for joining us.

I think one of my first memories of just kind of being a partner with you goes back to your trek in 2008 in Africa.

Do you remember that?

Yes, in Akoya.

Out in the Aquia section.

Yep.

And what’s your recall of that?

What kind of lingers impression in your mind from that day?

Chris: Ten days of in the bush really surveying with Tom Needham and several others on that trek.

And exhaustion, beautiful creation and people that were open to the gospel, as well as resistance and watching God overcome those things.

It was amazing.

Changed my life, honestly.

Mark Gillmore: Your reports coming back to me at that time, there just seemed to be life in them.

And like, Chris feels fit for this.

This is good.

Chris: It was amazing to see what God did through many others, even in the weeks and years afterwards.

Absolutely amazing to hear what God had done, having seen some of those places just as a survey.

It was absolutely amazing to see what God did there.

Mark Gillmore: Yeah.

I followed up that excursion and was in that area myself and multiple times.

So God’s doing some neat things.

Now we are out here, you know, 2024.

So what’s happened in the recent steps?

Where are you going with your family and your ministry?

Chris: Well, God has done many things in the years since then, including really just clarifying what missions is and how it works best and teaching us many things.

First of all, he added a wife to me.

I was corresponding with my wife during that time, and we are now four children later and just announced actually today that one more is on the way.

So God has continued to do many things on the family front, and we as a couple really, God has convinced us and really shown us, taught us in step-by-step that God wants to use the whole family.

And really leading your family into the ministry is a huge part.

It’s really my first ministry, and God really blessed that in our time in France.

I could not have done many of the things over the last years are because of the family God’s added to me.

That’s our particular story.

Mark Gillmore: Yes.

And you just took your family because of that commitment to the missionary ministry, and you’re on your way for long-term missions in Cameroon.

Chris: So God clarified the call to Cameroon, but because of some of the civil conflict there, it became really plain that we would not be able to live in the English side.

And really, the need is huge on the French side.

Three-quarters of the country speaks French, but a lot of our missionary friends and national friends, many of them don’t speak French fluently.

And they all said, you really need to pray about learning French before you come.

And that was new to me.

I had not ever – I did not grow up in the Eiffel Tower Club with a poster on my wall wanting to go to France.

And God really put that on our heart, though.

He put it on our heart, softened us to it, and then opened the doors in ways – we were amazed.

And we arrived in France in August of 2023 for a one-year language program.

Mark Gillmore: Yes.

So you’re going to Cameroon.

Over half the country speaks the French language.

So you have a commitment to learn to speak that yourself.

Chris: Yes.

Yeah.

In fact, the first time I was in a French speaking part of Cameroon, when we were really praying about this, I had just taken a short visit.

I went to give a gospel tract to a man and I was in Cameroon.

So he was familiar with that, was comfortable.

And when I realized he couldn’t speak English, I froze.

He didn’t know what I was saying and I didn’t know how to say anything. to them.

I did not know how to say, would you like a gospel track in French?

And it really just kind of woke me up to the fact that there are so many people that do not speak English and are never

Mark Gillmore: going to.

And it was eye-opening.

And not a lot of us have been really confronted, one, well, with that commitment to give the gospel, but then running up against that language barrier and feeling how impenetrable that barrier really is.

And Gabe, you’re here and welcome.

Yep.

It’s good to be here.

Now, how old are you? 14.

Okay, 14.

And Gabe, for a minute, kind of put us in the shoes of, I know that you were in France for this last year, right?

And what was your schooling that you were experiencing?

Gabe: So we went to public school, actually, in our small town of Aubusson.

Had about 800 students.

It was middle school and high school.

So it was a very interesting experience.

For most of our life, we had been just homeschooled at home, then a couple years in Christian school.

But it was definitely a very new experience for us.

And just shocking not to be in a Christian environment 24-7.

Right.

Out of the influence of any Christians.

You just had to keep your mind on Jesus and not be influenced by the peer pressure around you.

Yeah.

It was definitely a challenge to do that, but it definitely was a growing time for us as we went through that, not being able to speak about Jesus freely to everybody because you didn’t speak the language.

Mark Gillmore: Right, right, right.

So I’m so proud of you sitting here having gone through this with your parents’ support and just staying focused on Jesus like you did.

But going back to this, so you’re in this class in this school, six, seven hundred kids, and how many of them could actually kind of speak English with you?

Gabe: So about five or six people in my class spoke a good amount of English, but none of them really could.

I couldn’t really share the gospel with them clearly, and they would understand.

They would only speak like four or five hundred words.

Mark Gillmore: Right, right.

So like the gospel, which is what you want to ultimately communicate, you can’t do that.

Not in your language, not English.

So you’re there to learn their language, right?

So what was that like?

Tell us what was it like for a 14-year-old?

We’ll get to your dad in a minute, right?

He’s got another story.

What about yours?

Chris: I should just add that it was actually kind of terrifying to pull away from a school having left your two sons.

They’re looking at you as you’re driving away like, what have you done?

Just leaving them in a public school, number one.

Number two, in a school where they couldn’t hardly speak any French.

We had started, but we were not proficient in any way, shape, or form.

So that was one of the hardest decisions my wife and I had to really wrestle with.

That’s an incredible step of faith.

It was a step of faith, and God had to convince us that he was in it.

And he did, and he blessed.

But it was a – I don’t know who it was harder for.

I don’t know.

Gabe: So, Gabe, what was it like for you?

So it was amazing how, well, day by day, I would have French classes, and I could just understand the concepts.

I couldn’t understand any details or anything.

But after a couple weeks, a couple months, gradually I would learn a couple words each day, and I would just try to remember them.

And just eventually I could understand more and more words each day by talking to my friends, listening to the teacher, just complete immersion. and that was honestly the best way I could have learned because especially my personality, I guess, I like talking to people, making friends.

Neat, good.

So I was kind of forced to talk to them.

So I was trying to talk as much as I could even though I didn’t know a lot and that really helped me learn.

But especially at first, it was very hard.

Thankfully, the French people are very kind.

They understood that I couldn’t speak French and they were gracious.

Sometimes my teachers would give me the paper in English if I couldn’t understand.

But then after a while, gradually I could speak more French, and then they didn’t have to help me anymore.

That’s neat.

Mark Gillmore: Were they excited to have an American who was so needy in their school and they were ready to help you?

Gabe: Yeah, a lot of people liked helping me and made friends with me almost instantly.

That’s neat.

Just because I was American.

Right.

Mark Gillmore: That’s so fun to experience.

Yes.

When you’re welcomed like that.

So at first, it sounds like it was pretty much just like a vocab thing, just picking up these little words and what they mean.

And then how did grammar fit in?

How did that come along?

Gabe: So it was good.

In my French class that year, they talked about all the grammar.

It was kind of a review for ninth grade because in ninth grade in the French school, you have a big test on everything.

And that is kind of you get a certificate that counts for your future job and whatever.

So they were going over everything kind of from the start, which was very nice for me because then I could get all the grammar down.

And actually, I kind of learned faster than some of them because they had been taught it, but they didn’t really pay attention because they thought they knew it.

Mark Gillmore: I’m sure there’s a bunch of kids listening who said, yeah, I speak English and I don’t have a clue what the grammar is.

Gabe: So that’s what the French kids in the same situation.

It’s definitely different than English grammar.

But I do kind of like languages, so it was fun to learn, honestly, all the different rules and all that.

Mark Gillmore: So having done it for a year, would you recommend the experience?

Like, was it worth it?

Gabe: I mean, it depends on how, if you want to or not.

Like, I kind of had to, so.

Yeah.

But it was a good experience.

Honestly, I would probably recommend it.

It’s definitely the best way to learn if you’re prepared to face the challenges of it and to be put in a public school and all that.

Mark Gillmore: So we’ve got Ben sitting here, too.

And Ben, welcome.

Guest Speaker: Thank you.

Mark Gillmore: Thanks for coming.

How old are you?

Guest Speaker: I’m 12 years old.

Mark Gillmore: All right, 12.

All right.

So how is your experience parallel, your older brothers?

Is it a little different or pretty much the same?

Guest Speaker: It was pretty much the same, but he learned faster than I did, of course, because he’s older.

But, yeah, it was interesting to be in a school with other people who didn’t speak the same language as I did.

So, but God helped us learn the language and we got along eventually.

Mark Gillmore: So, I mean, just hearing you speak makes me feel like, yeah, your dad’s taken a big step of faith, but you were, right?

Guest Speaker: I was just following my dad when.

Mark Gillmore: Yeah.

Yeah.

So he kind of, you know, he took you along, but you had to take it.

It was your faith too, right?

Yeah.

I mean, you were there.

You had to go every morning, you know.

Yes.

You had to make choices.

Chris: It’s interesting. we should just give an overview of what a day looked like.

So my wife and I would start school usually at about 9, but we would have dropped the kids off between 7.30 and 8.

And then in France, the school’s there, you have a two-hour lunch break.

So we would pick the kids up from school, and we were in language school right down the road at the church, and we would kind of debrief, how’s everybody doing?

And, you know, at first it was, oh, Dad, you know, and telling us all this stuff.

And actually pretty quick, though, with the girls, too, because they were in a similar situation.

They were actually in a private school just up the road.

Pretty quick, it turned from fear and anxiety to excitement.

And, I mean, there were definitely challenges because they were taking all the subjects in French.

But what’s interesting, Ben did progress a little slower in French itself.

But, Ben, why don’t you tell probably about within a month he had found an English speaker.

And why don’t you tell a little bit of what happened probably even within the first month of getting to know your friend Michael.

Guest Speaker: Yeah, so there was a boy named Michael at my school, and he spoke English, so we got along pretty well.

But eventually I felt the burden to witness to him, so I started witnessing to him.

And about a week later, we have him over to our house, and he accepted Jesus as a Savior at our house.

Mark Gillmore: I think I remember how amazingly quickly that really was.

And so how did his life expand from there?

What witness went out from him, or did you reach others through him or his family?

Guest Speaker: He tried to tell some of the other friends at school, but they just kind of weren’t interested at the moment, so he said he would keep trying to do it more.

Mark Gillmore: How’s he doing today?

Guest Speaker: They just started coming to the church.

They’ve been coming faithfully about every week.

Chris: His mom had a lot of questions.

His mom was born and raised in Siberia, Russia, immigrated to France about 15-plus years ago, and met her husband there.

Michael was born there and raised in Obisone.

And after a lot of questions, she’s been through a lot of religions, Orthodox and Catholic.

She actually trusted Christ a couple months ago.

And we were very excited.

The father attended church the last Sunday we were there.

And I had the opportunity to talk with him for hours, honestly.

And he kind of gave the answer.

This is the story often in Europe.

There’s so much religion.

But it seemed like any time he heard an element of the gospel from the scripture explained, he would say, oh, that makes sense.

And he’s very close.

We’re still praying for him.

We’re really trusting that God will use that family.

Yes.

And it was exciting what happened because Ben started talking.

That’s right.

At the public school.

Mark Gillmore: That’s right.

That’s a step of faith.

So let me hear your French here.

Let’s see.

Gabe: Well, I’ll just read a couple of verses here to start.

Proverbs 3, 5, 6 Confie-toi en l’éternel de tout ton cœur et ne t’appuie pas sur ta sagesse reconnais-le dans toutes tes voies et il aplanira tes sentiers So that’s Proverbs 3, 5 and 6 Now we can just talk

Guest Speaker: Bonjour mon frère comment ça va aujourd’hui?

Gabe: Je vais très bien et toi?

Guest Speaker: Oui merci et toi?

Gabe: Tu as mangé quoi pour le petit déjeuner?

Guest Speaker: I ate some of the meat and I ate some of the fish.

Mark Gillmore: So that’s awesome.

What a privilege, though, that you guys, alongside your dad, are learning that at 12 and 14, right?

Yes.

You’ve just – even your brain and the capacity of language learning is so huge.

It will be a lifelong benefit and blessing to you.

But, Chris, you were down the road a little bit when you tried to learn French.

What was it like for a brain – you’re young, but –

Chris: Yeah.

Well, thankfully, God gave me a wife who loves English.

I used to explain it.

It’s not the case now, but I hated taking English in high school.

And our family story, I was self-employed, homeschooled, and I did not focus on that.

I didn’t understand it.

I would always ask questions.

Why are the rules?

Who made these rules?

And so as I’ve gotten older and gone through life, different Bible college courses, learning Greek, those helped me with the language.

But this was the first time I was in an immersive experience, really.

I learned pigeon in Cameroon, but it’s close enough to English.

You just kind of get the feel for it.

This was the first time I had formal language training, really.

And it was absolutely taxing.

You have to humble yourself and become a child, really.

And our teacher really emphasized pronunciation, which is so important for the French.

Many Americans will come over and mispronounce the French words they know and think that it’s just fine.

But to the French, pronunciation shows a lot of respect to try and learn the rules.

And it was very humbling, honestly, to start to take a lesson and think I knew the content.

And then she’s constantly having us repeat things and to be constantly stopped and corrected, stopped and corrected, stopped and corrected.

And I had a very firm teacher, but also a very patient teacher.

And I told her thank you many times because she could see it was agony for me.

My wife, it was hard for both of us, but it was honestly probably hardest for me of all of them.

But it was such an amazing opportunity to watch the Lord grow my mind.

And even now I’m not where my children are yet, but that was actually the point.

We wanted our whole family to get the emphasis and not just me in a ministry setting.

Mark Gillmore: And now you’re going to Cameroon where it’s a French language.

And you’re arriving, you’ll be arriving with much of the language already rolling for you. how necessary is it that you know the french language so to give some of the context our

Chris: language learning in france we we did it in a way that allowed us to function as we would anywhere which is we had housing and the kids were in school and we were a part of a good church we joined a veteran missionary in a church planning setting and we were able to be in the church and it was actually very challenging to speak in a way that is actually understandable by those that you’re speaking to.

So it was very eye-opening to learn, think you’ve learned, and then get up to try and speak and realize they didn’t get everything.

And then when they come up to you thinking, now that you’ve practiced this rehearsed devotional or whatever, that if you can speak like that, then you can understand.

And they’d rattle off, and I could not.

Depending on my stress level and energy level, I could understand anywhere from 40 to 60 percent, sometimes less.

And so we like to say, yes, we are arriving in Cameroon having prepared, but really we’ve just built a foundation.

Now it’s interesting.

It is very, it’s very important.

If you can’t understand, you can’t get things done.

Dealing with car repairs, insurance, housing issues, grocery store, you know, neighbor issues.

If you can’t effectively communicate, it’s hard to do anything.

And just to kind of even connect us to my kids again, what we saw there, Gabe was able to translate for me.

If we were in a store or on a phone call and I could not do it, he could understand and could make himself understood.

So that’s why I say it’s been a family endeavor.

But when we get to Cameroon, it will be an adjustment.

The accents in French speaking are different in every French speaking nation.

And 60%, they say, of the world’s French speakers are in Africa.

So each country has its own slightly different accent, but it’s understandable One of the reasons we went to France is to learn a basic French from the formal setting, you know, written French grammar, and then we can adapt it to the French used in Cameroon.

But it’ll be an adjustment for sure.

But we’re looking forward to immediately being a part of a French ministry when we get there.

One that actually will be newly started, we’re hoping.

Mark Gillmore: Well, I praise God for your commitment and for your family doing it together.

I just think of the false cults in our world that will train in new languages before they arrive in a country.

And I’ve heard the reports that they arrive in country speaking this language.

And I think, does Satan work harder to spread falsehood than we do to spread the truth?

And it’s kind of heartbreaking to think that why are they trying to do that, you know, just to tell lies?

Shouldn’t we do this to tell the truth?

Shouldn’t we make this sacrifice?

Shouldn’t we take these steps of faith as a family?

We have the good news.

And it doesn’t immediately or automatically cross language barriers.

We have to commit to cross those barriers and learn those languages.

And that’s what your last year is all about.

Chris: It was very sad even in France.

We lived in an older farmhouse outside of town, not too far, but you had to be looking for our house almost or just be willing to stay off the beaten path for at least five minutes.

And while we lived there, at least twice we had Jehovah’s Witnesses knock on our door and want to engage us with their version of the gospel.

And I was home one time, the other time it was not.

I couldn’t speak to them a lot the first time.

We gave them some information of our own in exchange for as much of theirs as they would give us, you know, so we could dispose of that.

But it was sad.

Yes, it is sad.

That they were there working hard, even in France.

Mark Gillmore: And so many places in the world.

So I know you’re on your way to Cameroon.

And I’m sure we’ll have time to talk about that in future podcasts with some reports from you.

But let’s end our podcast here today just for a moment talking about France.

Sure.

You were there for a year, and you sensed spiritual.

What spiritual need and opportunity did you sense in that European country?

Chris: Sure.

So just a really, really brief overview.

France is an old nation.

They’ve been around a long time.

They have an old history, and it was fascinating to be places where World War I history is almost recent.

You’d stand on places where there were French Revolution histories, but there were also the histories of their kings.

But then there were also the history of the Gaulish kings and of the Romans, and even before that.

And where we lived had been a Protestant stronghold, actually, in the 1500s until some of the Catholic-Protestant wars drove many of those people out.

Many of them were killed.

Many of them fled.

And there were still traces of their heritage, though, in that area where we lived.

So it’s a very old history.

And I would say there’s a lot of preconceptions about France, but they’re people with a story.

And yet, even though their story is different and their history is rich and diverse, the gospel was effective there.

God was working there.

And yes, there were some specific difficulties.

They lost a million and a half men in World War I.

It greatly, greatly impacted their country.

You’d meet people whose parents and grandparents were killed or whose homes had been destroyed completely.

So people joke about different French stereotypes when it comes to fighting and all this stuff.

There are people that have seen a lot of death and destruction, and quite frankly, many of them are done with that.

And so they’ve tried to find other ways.

And there’s so many wonderful parts of their culture.

But one of the things they’ve been greatly affected by, I observed, is the state religion.

There’s a lot of secularism there, partly because religion has been forced on them for generations.

So while it may appear to be there to be some coldness, some hardness, as you get to know people and as you give the gospel, a biblical gospel, people aren’t familiar with that.

And even the different Catholics that we’ve spoken with, some of them were extremely biblically illiterate.

Others were biblically illiterate.

And actually, there are some there that would claim to be born again and that are very Bible-based, but they’re still clinging to an ancient heritage.

It’s been a part of their country for hundreds of years, so they don’t want to walk away from that.

They’re just tied to it.

But we were just struck by just kind of seeing some of the snares that they are in, but then also seeing that just giving the gospel and explaining it and living it and being consistent with it had an impact, and it was new to many of them.

And it’s actually both encouraging and heartbreaking to realize we’re nothing special.

We’re just Christians that have been greatly impacted by Scripture, by preaching, by biblical Christianity.

God’s changed us and worked in our lives.

And we were just living and doing what we’ve been taught from the Scripture and just living it out.

And it was new to so many people.

And it was eye-opening, and it caused a lot of questions and interest.

And this had me asking, Lord, what could be done if people would just believe you and believe your word and live according to it Instead of in bondage to the cultural pressures around them, just live the gospel.

Live the scriptures in front of your neighbors.

Obey it.

Give it.

And, you know, the culture there is very strong.

They’re very loyal to their language and their culture.

But, you know, it’s empty without Christ.

And we saw people genuinely interested in biblical Christianity and the gospel.

Mark Gillmore: And you’re encouraged with what God wants to do in that land.

Chris: Absolutely.

We are praying if God, he’s not called us to go back at this point, but that’s the trouble with being a missionary.

You want to go everywhere.

My wife and I have both said we wish we had 10 lives to give because everywhere we’ve been, other places we wish we could stay and minister the gospel in that place because it’s an open field.

And so some of our burden, yes, to have learned the language and be prepared for Cameron, but we’re really praying God would raise up labors for France because it’s a ripe harvest field.

And many churches without pastors and pastors praying for help and church people praying for help because they’re struggling.

There’s some real dynamics there that make it challenging to thrive.

And they are actually – they’re open to Americans.

They have – I’ve heard one say, tell the churches in America not to forget us.

Wow.

That we need their help.

Mark Gillmore: So we’re burned about these things.

That is such an encouraging report.

And I know it will stir perhaps some young person listening to consider France, Europe.

Too often we hear kind of negative, discouraging reports, but you’re firsthand.

And with faith.

Chris: I should add one element to it.

There are a lot of Muslims in France, and there are a lot of Muslims from Africa.

And the several that I got into, the one looked at me and I was explaining to him, I’m not a Catholic, I’m a Bible-believing Christian, and this will tell you.

I was explaining the track, and he said, Christians don’t believe anything in France.

They don’t believe anything anymore.

And I explained to him, well, I’m from the United States, and there are a lot of us, and they’re actually more here than you know.

And he’d never been witness to.

He’d never had anyone give him a gospel track or try to win him to Christ.

And he received it.

He didn’t actually reject it.

He didn’t say, no, I won’t read this.

He took it and said he would read it, and we talked a little bit.

And that conversation was in French.

And I was struggling.

I was on my own. at the moment, and God helped me.

And it was a Muslim man that received a gospel track and a gospel witness in France.

And they’re there too.

And I should add one other.

On the way home, we went to Turkey and visited some folks living there and serving the Lord there in some difficult situations.

And we were on a hilltop overlooking a city of over 3 million people in Bursa, Turkey, and saw an Arab family, a Turkish family there, not Arab, Turkish family standing there doing pictures and we offered to take their picture and uh just by gesture and the and the the father said oui merci and he spoke french he’d lived in in france for 30 years and we got to stand there and give him a little bit of our testimony in french and give him a gospel tract and that that led it had a link on it to the gospel in turkish and uh you know just an open harvest field everywhere we’ve been and uh if nothing else we are praying really i shouldn’t say if nothing else because prayer is really where it starts.

We are praying that God would send laborers into these harvest

Mark Gillmore: fields.

What I hear you saying is, if you’re a Christian, or sense you’re a Christian, be a Christian.

Yes, absolutely.

Live it.

Don’t hide it.

Absolutely.

Don’t be ashamed of it.

And you know what that Muslim is saying, Christians don’t believe anything, meaning they don’t live what they think they say they believe, you know.

And Gabe, what would you say to young, you know, teenagers who are actually in public school settings, just like you found yourself for the first time in your life and and this theme that we’re thinking about be a christian how would you say to teenagers in that public school setting be who you are yes just um live your christian

Gabe: testimony don’t go with the cool group especially like i had to go through that it was very hard but you can’t just go with a cool group you have to be a christian and you have to show that you’re living your life for jesus show them why you came because a lot of people will ask you why are you here why would you leave America and come to France you know and just you just have to give them your testimony and show them what it is to be a Christian and just the peace that you have as a Christian and how you can know where you’re going when you die and all that you just a lot of times I was just discouraged especially around other teens and peer pressure and all that you can just get down and discouraged because you think you can’t tell anybody because you’re too afraid and

Chris: all that.

You just got to be bold, ask for wisdom, what to say.

Amen.

And he did.

He would come home with questions and we’d compile verses and he’d go back.

There we go.

It was very interesting to see him get it out.

I didn’t know what to say.

So we’d figure some things out.

He’d write some things

Mark Gillmore: down and he’d go back.

That’s it.

That’s a great thing to remember that I don’t have to necessarily know everything ahead.

I just launch out.

I’ll find stuff.

I got to find out.

I’ll go back, Talk to someone, get the answer, and come back.

And that’s a good process.

Now, Ben, God gave you that special fruit with him and Michael.

But on a different angle, what was your favorite experience, your favorite outing in France?

You guys did some very cool things.

What’s your favorite?

Guest Speaker: I really enjoyed it.

We went to Carcassonne.

It was a big castle on top of a hill.

I really enjoyed that.

It was really amazing to see how they built the castle and all that.

I really enjoyed going to the castle there.

Mark Gillmore: Like stepping back a thousand years in time, right?

Yeah.

You can picture the knights marching around that castle.

So amazing.

That is so cool, the history.

We don’t get that on this side of the water of the Atlantic.

America doesn’t have history a thousand years back.

How about you, Ben?

Gabe: Well, probably my favorite trip we did.

We went twice, actually, to Normandy.

And I really have liked World War II history and all that.

So we got to see most of the beaches, and we were there on the 80th anniversary where they had Biden, actually, and the president of France.

They did a speech and had a ceremony.

But just to see where all that happened, get to see some reenactments also, and just to be there was honestly amazing.

Yeah, yeah.

Mark Gillmore: So here you are on gospel mission, and yet you’re experiencing these angles of world history.

And it’s worth it being a servant of the Lord.

It’s worth it being involved in global travel, world missions.

There’s sacrifices.

There’s scary things.

But when you step out in faith, you meet God.

And you walk away with just a breadth of knowledge.

It expands who you are and what God wants to do.

So thank you, guys.

It’s so encouraging to sit down here with you, and I trust that those listening pray for the Sanderlin family.

In the coming months, by God’s grace, they’ll be in Cameroon long-term, preaching the gospel, making disciples among the French speakers.

Pray for Ben, for Gabe, for Brother Chris.

And remember, in a world of turmoil and uncertainty, the only way to be at peace is to stay on mission with Jesus in his Go Mission.