Our guest blogger today is Rebecca Walker. Rebecca is a Senior at Dorman High School and is a member of the Student Ministry at First Baptist Spartanburg. God has given her a heart for missions. Rebecca is blogging today about her recent mission trip to Wales. We look forward to seeing how God uses Rebecca in His Kingdom!

Croeso i Gymru! Welcome to Wales! I heard and saw this phrase many times throughout my nine days in Caernarfon. I never saw anything about leaving though, or maybe I did and just never noticed it. I once heard someone say, “It is a curious thing to watch a dream die.” I would say, it is even more curious to have God open a door and to stand before it but having to walk away because it wasn’t time to walk through it yet. I would be lying if I said my heart didn’t ache when I left Wales or that I wish that God had just said stay. But, I am so blessed by God’s provisions to have me there when I was. I will forever have the amazing memories of the events in Caernarfon. A few being the new friends I made, prayer walking a beautiful town, temporary tattoos with Katarina, trying to learn some Welsh, eating amazing foods and sweets, and especially the four salvations in the street in front of our house. I will forever remember the way that God is moving in that town and that area. Now that I’m home I’ve realized I left something there. My heart. I have been praying and seeking God’s will in my life concerning missions. I had never felt at home here in the states. I never found my niche. I had done other missions both nationally and internationally and had never felt settled. When I got to the UK something felt right.

I know that the Lord has a special time for me to be where He has called me, but I know that His hand is unwavering over North Wales and He has a plan for hope for them. Wales, once being a place of great revivals, will be that same place once again with hope in Christ Jesus. I ask that you pray that they no longer have to be hopeless, but rather see that they can have endless hope in Jesus through salvation. Pray for the chapels there to be revived. I ask that you pray for the young people of Caernarfon, that their hardened hearts and post-Christian lifestyles would change because they can see purpose and greatness in what the Lord has to offer them.

I miss my Welsh friends so much. I miss the closeness of the other team members, the walks around the square, our late night card games, and I miss the bonds we made because I could look at the friends we made and see God moving in a drastic way.

Please pray for the Welsh people as well as the Celt, the organization that we worked with. Pray that they can effectively reach all of the people groups speaking a Celtic language so that they may show them Christ. Pray that they may have people saying, “Send me!” And most of all please pray for global missions all over the world, that we, as Christians, can help make known the precious and Holy Name above all Names, Jesus Christ, in every nation and in every tongue. 

I heard something interesting this week that I had not thought about. In Revelation 7:9-10, it speaks of all the different people worshipping God, singing and crying out to Him. As promised we will be able to know everything in whole instead of partially. Understanding is very important. In order to communicate the gospel clearly, we must know more than the language, we must learn the culture and communicate with people on a deep heart level. Strive to learn the heart language of a people group whether they be a local group or half way across the world. Sharing Christ in a heart language will bring understanding.

I am so thankful to the Lord for this experience and I want to say thank you to all of those who helped me, prayed for me, and encouraged me, it means so much more than you could even understand.