Health Warning

There should be a health warning or small print included when you sign up to go on a short term missions team that it might just change your life...and in some cases drastically.

That's just what happened for Ruth Wilson. Ruth was a member of the MMS(I) Volunteers in Mission team to Togo back in July 2007.

Team Ireland 2007

From that visit she felt God's call upon her life and put herself forward as a Mission Partner with the Methodist Church. After a lengthy process she was accepted and in September went to Selly Oaks mission training college to prepare to go to The Gambia, where she will be teaching.

Ruth with some of her fellow international students who attend Selly Oaks

Today Ruth was commissioned in Fivemiletown Methodist as a mission partner in a wonderful service of worship and will shortly be leaving to take up her new post in Banjul.

Some of Team Ireland 2007 with Ruth at her commissioning

Ruth heard God's call, listened and followed. I know that He will continue to guide and to keep her through this big and exciting change, He will keep her paths straight and protect her from any harm.

When you surrender yourself to God's will and put your life in His hands you have no idea what you could be doing or where you could end up but you can always be sure that He has everything under control.