Facing a tough decision and could use some Christian brothers and sisters thoughts. My family and I about a year ago felt God call us to missions. We felt strongly that he was calling us to Africa, and pretty sure of the specific country he was calling us to. Over the last year we've been raising money, sold our house and most of our stuff and meeting with our church staff weekly. We have three young children (7, 5 and 1).



We had planned to already be there, but because it took awhile to sell our house and a few other obsticles we now won't be able to deploy until January.



In the last few days we've learned that the country where we were going is on the brink of genocide. They have been upgraded to a 6 on the "genocide scale" of which all out genocide is an 8 and have a very dangerous and crazy young leader encouraging blacks to rise up against whites and other foreigners. Reports say that a Rowanda type genocide is ominous.



I know Christians are sometimes called to go into dangerous situations and Jesus told us to expect persecution. It's different now that I'm sitting here looking at my 1 year old little girl and reading the reports of rape and violent crimes and murder of white people in that country....especially on farms, which is were we will be. I'm in prayer over this and my heart is heavy. I know "we are not given a spirit of fear and timidity". But at the same time is there a time when God calls you to make a wise decision and not bring your family into a genocide. I'm torn. I don't feel a clear prompting right now either way. I wonder if the reason our deployment was delayed was God's way of protecting us from there or we'd already be there. But then at the same time I don't want to not follow through with a calling out of fear.



Please join with me in praying for God to intervene because it looks like nothing short of that will prevent this. Also please pray for discernment and wisdom for us in this and I'd love any thoughts/advice on the matter.

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