Following God’s Path
to British Columbia
By William Myers
For the past two years, the Lord has been working on my heart about missions. I have a very comfortable, steady and secure job; and I attempted to avoid the Lord’s will for me every way possible. Finally, last fall, I surrendered my will to Him and started an incredibly rewarding process – following God’s path.
After spending several days trying to figure out how to explain to my wife, Tamara, why the Lord wanted us to leave our family, friends, home and all our personal creature comforts and move with our 9-year-old son to the mission field, it took her five seconds to say “Yes.”
One of other biggest doors God opened for us was InterAct’s First Nations Reality program in Canada. On June 14th we arrived in British Columbia and plunged headfirst into an intense week of cross-cultural training that started to open our eyes and our hearts to the need in this part of the world. What a blessing it was to meet our team members and listen to InterAct’s Charlie and Judy Cook and Jess and Alta Tanis as they prepared us for our summer native ministry.
We headed north to our assignment in central British Columbia and spent time learning from InterAct church planters Steve and Jill Horsman about their ministry to the First Nation’s people of the Redstone area. We weren’t in Indiana anymore!
Over the next few days, we began to meet some of the native residents of the area and, even though the air was chilly, the people of Redstone warmed our hearts. I saw how Steve an Jill’s involvement in the local community through rodeo and school became a real part of their ministry. People were always calling or stopping by. God showed me that this was a work in progress, church planting at the basement level!
God sent a young man from the reserve into our lives. He quickly became friends with our son, John, and we saw God use John as a witness to him. Through these encounters, I began to see that God’s beauty wasn’t just the snow-capped mountains, or the icy cold, clear lakes and streams. No, it was the people of British Columbia, Canada.
We found it difficult to say “goodbye.” God hadn’t led us here for a summer missions trip. He had led us here on a mission survey, a survey of where his path is leading us, a path to our future of ministering to the lost.
William is a state trooper who lives with his wife, Tamara, and son, John, in Indiana.