Thoughts from London

I am currently sitting in a British Airways lounge. It is a long day with a five hour layover in Seattle and a seven hour layover in London! It is so fascinating to walk around the airport since London is such an international global city. There are people from all corners of the globe reflecting various dress and languages.

Everywhere there are tv's tuned into the incredible rescue efforts of the Chilean miners. As I have people watched and even had brief conversations with folks caught up in the drama, heroic efforts and rescued lives I am amazed how people are in some fashion praying and thanking their version of a god or higher power.

As the historic rescue takes place I cannot help but think of the reason we are gathering in Cape Town - to launch a global church response to those trapped in "mines" - places of darkness, no light, lacking much (impoverished), in order to rescue those who Isaiah says are "hidden treasures in secret places."

Oh if only the global church would awaken and have the same intense effort at prayer and cooperation and then launch rescue efforts to those who have never heard. "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world" who has come to set the "captives free", preaching and teaching the Good News and the Gospel of the Kingdom (ref. Mark 1).

Food for thought with approx. 2,300 unreached peoples left in darkness needing immediate rescue before they die and head into eternal darkness.

Mike
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