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Don Richardson Opens MEW

This week, February 15-18, Liberty is hosting its biannual Missions Emphasis Week. With over forty missions groups and agencies on campus, students are sure to have the resources needed to make connections is interested in advancing the Gospel overseas.

The week started off in Monday’s convocation with a parade of flags, special music and Bible reading in five different languages. The speaker, missionary Don Richardson, shared his moving testimony of living amongst the Sawi people in Western New Guinea, Indonesia.

Mr. Richardson was moved to help the Sawi people, and prayed that God would move his wife, Carol, in the same direction. The Lord moved Carol, and so the two, along with their small son, moved to New Guinea to work with the Sawi peopl who were known cannibalistic headhunters. Though at times the area was very violent, the Lord blessed Mr. Richardson and his family with safety and wisdom. He spoke of the violence and how when two villages were at war, one village would offer the other a child in a peacekeeping effort. This metaphor allowed Mr. Richardson the opportunity to talk about God’s gift of his son to reconcile man back to himself. The message was one of faith and inspiration and served as a great start to Liberty’s Missions Emphasis Week.

There are seventeen different seminars being held throughout the week along with a Children of the World concert and international food tasting. Please visit www.liberty.edu/academics/religion/globalministry for more information regarding Missions Emphasis Week.

- Ana Brooks

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