March 21, 2018

The 10/40 Window? You’re Already There.

By Roy Harryman

Blog Immigrant and refugee ministry

If you’ve ever considered leaving your home to take the good news to unreached people, you know that the barriers are monumental. Language, culture, finances … not to mention the physical distance.

But if we learn anything about God in the book of Acts, it’s that He can break through any barrier.

Remember the story of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch? After Philip baptized him, “The Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away” and Philip found himself in a new town by God’s sovereign purpose (Acts 8:39-40).

The physical distance wasn’t a barrier when God was at work.

And guess what? God is at work in our world today.

No, the Holy Spirit probably won’t pick you up and set you down in a foreign land among unreached people. But millions of unreached people from foreign lands have moved here. In God’s sovereign plan, these immigrants and refugees have been “snatched up” and resettled at our doorstep.

Have you ever considered that God has broken the barriers between you and the unreached people of the 10/40 Window? You probably see them every day on the street or in the grocery store.

Yes, God still calls some of us to leave home and go to the nations. But He’s also sovereignly directing millions to leave the nations and make a new home here.

You can enter the 10/40 Window simply by acknowledging, loving, and serving the immigrants and refugees around you. No plane ticket necessary.

Not sure how? Check out the cross-cultural immersion opportunity, Experience Toronto.

Roy Harryman is a guest blogger for Crossworld.