Sarah Careins

 

 

Missionary Sarah Careins

 
Dream so big that you will fail so that when you succeed you will know it was God.

 

 Since I was a young child, I’ve dreamed of going to Africa.  Missionaries were like “Super-Heroes” to me.  I collected their prayer cards like baseball cards.  It was a dream—surely I could never do something that great.  However, this dream never died within me.  The passion only grew stronger.

 

In January 2007, my dream came true.  I arrived in South Africa to serve missionaries, Wayne and Delight Peercy.  The question still loomed in my head, “Did God want me to be a missionary?”  It seemed too great a sacrifice to give up family for such a long time.  Finally, I gave God my family and my dreams.  I put my life in the offering plate—I was the living sacrifice.  “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose” (Jim Elliot-missionary martyr). Peace and joy filled me.  There is nothing like being in God’s will.  

 

The Lord showed me that the harvest is ready, but the laborers are so few.  It was in South Africa that I was first called “Pastor Sarah.”  Africa has filled my heart.  While I was there, I had many opportunities to minister to the youth.  Doors were opened and relationships were built.  I had no idea that I would be returning to this very nation to do youth ministry.  God was preparing the harvest, and He was preparing my heart. 

 

When I returned to America, I applied to be a missionary with the A/G.  I was asked to be the FIRST missionary to develop the National Youth Ministries in South Africa.  When we give God our dreams, He gives us so much more.  Now my dream is to see the youth of South Africa experience the presence and power of God.

 
 
Missionary to the Youth of South Africa………….…....Present
Undergraduate Student with Global University..........Present 
Ordained Minister..............................................May 2008
Served in South Africa………………….………..Jan. – July 2007
Master’s Commission Staff ….….…..…Sept. 2004 - Jan.2007
Ministerial Studies Diploma (Global Univ.).................July 2005
Master’s Commission Student………...Sept. 2002 - May 2004

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