Everyone Is A Missionary
Posted By Jacque on June 23, 2010
I have had this post titled since May 1, 2010, the day before we arrived in Costa Rica.
When we made our plans to move to Costa Rica public online, the common question was:
Are you going to be missionaries?
The simple answer before we left and even when we arrived was NO. Here is our belief about missionary work: we believe that every person called by YHVH is called to share Scripture and build relationships with everyone they meet. We are called to share him, Torah and Messiah with everyone… READ MORE
Things have changed quite a bit since we arrived, and as all things are, some were expected and some were not. We have been staying with some Believers who were already here and we met online. It has been about 6 weeks, and we have been looking for our own place. As of today, we think we found a place that is adequate, but now, due to unforeseen circumstances, lack the finances. That would be all right, except that we were told that it is ok to work in Costa Rica as Profesores de Ingles(English teachers), and planned to do that. However, we found that this is not exactly true, and we want to do it right – legally.
Question is, we are here, and we need to work, so what is the right thing for us right now?
Before we left, we were trying to set up a main Dixon Family page to gather all of our ministry sites and a store to sell our own products as well as post affiliate links for products we like and can recommend as an income of sorts. Online is the only way we had come up with to support ourselves without a work visa – that and donations.
YHVH gave us some these ideas and others of ways we can generate an income online through this website. We did not, however, have time and get it set up until recently. Since we have been working on this and also are going to try to get a work visa to work here legally, Father has set in our hearts that we need to establish our online websites/ministries as well as the in real life ones he has planned for us on this site also and set it up as a ministry website. After all, this is what we do. This is what we live.
So, these websites are what we have been working on for the past few weeks. It is amazing how life can get in the way and the important things go by the wayside. Because we do not have internet upstairs where we are at in this house, it has been rather difficult to accomplish a lot online, but we are finally set up and have a FaceBook page too.
Please take the time to peruse the site and read about our plans and updates. I am also working on getting a newsletter sign-up, so be looking for that. If you feel so lead, we would love to have your support and sponsorship. Please consider if you can give even a small monthly gift of as little as $5 or $10 to help us defray the costs of our online and irl ministries.
Please also pray for me. I don’t know why today has been especially hard, but I am really missing Amanda today. Unless you have experienced it, you wouldn’t believe how much it hurts. I just want to see her beautiful face, hear her voice and put my arms around her and tell her I love her.
Shalom friends! and thanks~
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So excited to see what YHVH has in store for your family.
{{HUGS}} Love you, Jacque!
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June 23rd, 2010 at 6:45 pm
Thanks Leslie! Thanks for your love and support!
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I love that you said we are all missionaries. Man has made an idol out of ministry and I almost cringe when I read about someone going into “ministry” work. We should be doing that already ALL the time just as you said!
Your last paragraph made me cry. My heart is hurting for you both.
Praying Father blesses your efforts and sustains your family in CR. I think you you all so often!
Michelle´s last blog ..Weekly Update In Pictures
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June 23rd, 2010 at 6:52 pm
Thank you, too, Michelle. Thank you for your love and prayers. They mean a lot to me.
I feel the same way about someone saying they are “going into ministry”. I agree that it has been made an idol. I almost feel bad asking for partners – support – whatever to do what He is appointing us to do, for that very reason. and, if he hadn’t put it into our hearts, we surely wouldn’t be putting it out there! But, he works in ways we don’t understand, and right now, we are so in the learning process!
I do appreciate your friendship and am glad you commented.
We know he is sustaining us, and we are believing and looking forward to all he has… you know it is just hard to see sometimes, and that is when the Scriptures and our friends come in and bless us and lift us up. I cannot tell you, at this moment in time, how much those prayers and lifting up is appreciated!
With all that is going on…. I can say I feel so inadequate. (Glad these things don’t depend on MY being adequate for his plans!)
Shalom Michelle~
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I love the header for your new site – it’s so sweet!!
I am praying for you all!
To the KING be all the glory!
Rebekah
Blog: http://donotgrowweary.com/blog/
“Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.” 2 Timothy 2:15
Rebekah´s last blog ..- “She knows her own mind, Clare!”
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I am curious. How did you come to pick Costa Rica of all the countries in the world? Thanks!
God Bless! I truly love reading your blog and adventures. Thank you!
Joycelyn
Joycelyn´s last blog ..Forgiveness
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June 24th, 2010 at 6:52 pm
The main reason we picked CR was because we knew someone here. We researched it, and it is comparable to the Gov of the US, etc… It is closer than going across the ocean too, and that fit our budget. We also checked into going to Israel, because I have relatives who came over before WWII who were Jews, but it wasn’t going to be easy, so we felt we were to come here.
Thanks Joycelyn. I have appreciated getting to know you too.
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Dear Jacque
I walked into my daughter’s room several days ago and said, “They moved to Costa Rica!” “Who?”"The Dixons” “Wow!” We just didn’t know= we wondered about you and I prayed but we never knew where exactly you were going. Not on FB. Oddly I had been to your friend’s website before, for some odd reason.
We wish you the best. We are babies in our understanding of these spiritual and end times things.. But my dh understands the state of the world. We are moving ourselves soon, but w/i the us.
I miss my oldest son so much, whom I sent to live far away when he was still 16, for good reasons I thought at the time. We rarely speak, but are on good terms at least. I know your heart anguish.
Blessings,
Michele
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June 24th, 2010 at 6:54 pm
Thanks Michele~
I have some links about America being Mystery Babylon linked on http://jacquedixon.com/torah
I am sorry for your hurting heart. I pray children and parents will become united in YHVH and through T’shuva and Torah in these last days.
(((HUGS)))
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Like I wrote on her (Amanda´s) blog, you have been a great role model for me. I lost my faith in my teens, did some very bad mistakes which haunt me still. I have been reading your blogs for couple years now. I never felt G-d abandon me but my faith in Messiah was in trouble for years. I felt G-d was near me all the time and I considered conversion to judaism. I even studied judaism for some years but I couldn’t convert fully because my husband didn’t want to convert. He has always had strong faith in Yeshua. Maybe that was something I just had to learn. That G-d will guide me even if I don’t understand it at the moment. I returned and return time after time again in these blogs and that must be some kind of guidance.
I have been inspired by your faith and found peace in my faith day after day because of you. Although my parents were and are agnostics, they have always encouraged to find peace in religion (I was raised as Lutheran and I don’t buy those antisemitic arguments against Lutheranism because first time I heard Luther has ever wrote something like that was in my twenties, I never ever was taught anything antisemitic. In fact, despite strong German pressure, the Finnish Government refused to take action against Finnish nationals of Jewish origin who thus continued to enjoy full civil rights throughout the War. There are many interesting anecdotes from this period, concerning, among others, the presence of a Jewish prayer tent on the Russian front virtually under the Nazi’s noses and the food help given to Russian-Jewish POWs by the Jewish communities of Finland. (quoted from the Jewish Community of Helsinki website).) And we are still very Lutheran country, over 80 per cent are members of the church). I sometimes find it hard to read arguments against agnostics and atheists because I couldn’t have had better parents. I love them unconditionally and I can’t even dream of having different kind of parents and childhood. They have been married over 30 years and I always pray that I can find same kind of happiness and peace in my own marriage.
I have been praying for you and Amanda for months. I never knew what was behind all that and didn’t want to be too nosy but I guessed the reasons and I think I guessed right. You are part of my regular prayers and you will be.
I’m not a fluent English writer so please, forgive my grammar errors
Feel free to correct. I don’t mean to be harsh or anything but my lack of fluent language sometimes makes my messages sound harsher than I ever mean them to be.
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June 26th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
Thank you for your sweet comment. It is not harsh in the least. I am thankful that you have written to me and to Amanda and let us know these things. I have tried not to say too much about the situation, but slowly, things will be shared as there is some clarity and healing of things that have happened.
Sometimes life is just life, and it doesn’t happen the way we want it to. – MOST times it is that way. BUT, we walk in HIM, fumbling, stumbling, hoping that we will come out in the end, being faithful, loving much, and being forgiven of those things we have done to our shame.
I know Amanda loves her family, and she loves me. I am just praying that neither my will nor hers wins out, but the will of the Father, no matter what it is. Especially now in these last days on earth as we know it, but, also at the Throne, that is all we will have needed to concern ourselves with. This life will pass, and we will stand in Jerusalem, wondering why we were so concerned with all of the little things when the big things we need to be concerned with and walking in sat on the wayside, waiting for our attention and obedience.
My prayer is that my children walk in all truth and not in the ways of man. My prayer is that they love YHVH with all their heart, mind and strength and fulfill the commandments he has set before them.
Shalom and blessings to you!!
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A week later and I see how tired and illogical I was when I wrote my earlier post
I think I was unfair to answer here just after I read a post from another messianic blog how Lutheranism is synonym for antisemitism and devil worshipping. It was wrong to let it blacken my thoughts in a wrong place. My sincerest apologies.
However, I still think G-d works mysterious ways and I think His grace affects through people – even those without faith. I can see it in my family. They have never ever said anything against other people’s faiths. For me not eating pork or shellfish or wearing a head cover had never even raised a why question. Maybe it is G-d who affects in their life them not even realizing it. It saddens me to read all these stories about rejection and staring from strangers when one chooses to follow her/his heart. I never knew that (American) culture was so different to ours, we are after all western countries with similar religious backgrounds. Finland is said to be the most American country in Europe but all these stories are so sad. Something isn’t well at all. No wonder you chose to leave.
Sometimes I am jealous that we don’t share a faith as a family but I just have to accept this. I always have hope and unbreakable love and His guidance
The hardest part for me has always been to let His will be done, not mine. I can never praise enough your openness and honesty.
Shabbat shalom! (celebrating shabbat has been…interesting in a country where sun doesn’t set or rise for weeks)
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Shalom Jacque!
I remember one of the last conversations we had was me explaining how Allah is not the same as the Almighty.. lol
This is Denise from the old HSB blog site. We all left HSB a couple years ago and lost touch in what you all were up to. WOW didn’t know you also were led into T.O. or rather, found the Truth about obeying the Commandments = LOVE
Anyway, we too are on that journey, sort of back-tracking a bit because of the mystical elements and Pharisee-ism, but Praise Yah we are of those who “keep the commandments AND have the testimony of Yeshua”!
Would love to have you email if you have the time.
hugs to all
Denise (was “Everything Heart n Soul” at HSB)
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July 10th, 2010 at 6:07 pm
Oh my goodness Denise!! I am SO EXCITED YOU FOUND ME!! I have looked and looked for you!!!!!
I am so glad you contacted me! I am so glad to hear from you and SO happy to hear you are walking in Torah!!
Oh, what a blessing!!
I would love to hear how you are!
We are in Costa Rica. We left, well, for many reasons. We believe America is Babylon is the main one. Rev. 18.
I am so happy to hear from you. SO HAPPY!
How AWESOME!! is that?
I am also on FaceBook if you are on there.
Shalom dear friend!
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