Greetings, brothers and sisters in Christ. A warm welcome to Workplace Strategy.

In the last episode, we talked about planning our lives by writing a ‘Personal Mission Statement’ so that we have a clear general direction and can implement it in our daily lives and at work. Have you spent some time thinking and writing your own ‘mission statement’? We also saw how human plans and God's plans impact our lives through the life of Jacob in the Old Testament. The encounter with God changed Jacob forever, giving his life eternal value and meaning.

Friends, most of us are looking forward to a successful career, and as Christians, we want our lives to be used by God. Yet, a life used by God must first be a life that has encountered God and changed by God.

Dear listeners, I am sure some of you are language teachers. Today, let me tell you the story of the language teacher, Frank Laubach. He started off teaching English. Later, God led him to help hundreds of millions of people acquire literacy skills, learning to read and write in their own language. And even when their own language did not originally have a written system! How was this possible?

Frank Laubach was born in the United States in 1884. In 1915, with diplomas from a bible seminary and also a PhD degree from Columbia University, he and his wife began missionary work in the Philippines. They had wanted to minister to the Moro people, a fierce, unfriendly Islamic tribe living on the island of Mindanao. But the American army stationed there discouraged them from doing so as relationships between the Americans and the tribe were not good at all. So the couple ended up doing work in another part of Mindanao.

After some years in the Philippines and also back home in America, the family returned yet again to the Philippines in 1929. This time Laubach had a chance to go to Lanao, the area of the Moro people! But this time he went alone as their mission board felt that his wife and children would be safer in Baguio City, 900 miles away. He tried to reach out to the Moros, but he failed miserably. It was the loneliest time of his life and every evening, he would walk up a hill to pray. One evening in December, he heard God speaking to him, "Your failure is because you don't really love these Moro people. You think you are better than them because you are White. If you can forget the fact that you are American, and just think how much you love them, they will respond to you." He was shocked! Here he was, a missionary and he was prejudiced against people of different skin colours?

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