No One Is Writing About Them...

For the last three years I have been impacted by missionary biography (more on this later). This has had a heavy impact on my life and the way I think. Many of the biographies that I have read focus on missionaries who died many years ago. And concerning this point it seems to characterize the genre...but this ought not be in my opinion. The great men and women of the faith have not all died, the work of missionaries in this world is not simply historical, there are faithful believers alive today, living to proclaim the salvation that is through Christ alone...but no one is writing about them. I think this is sad. Missionary testimony, by God's grace, leads to more missionaries.

I want to write about faithful missionaries to Scotland here: Mikey and Emily Luehrmann. The following is a copied description from Grace Community church's missionary adoption page: Michael and Emily Luehrmann are serving at Carrubbers Christian Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland. They have been here since August of 2004. Michael is a 2004 graduate of The Master's Seminary with a Master of Divinity degree and Emily is a 2004 graduate from The Master's College with a Master of Biblical Counseling degree. Michael was ordained and commissioned at Grace Community in June of 2004. They have been married for 5 years and Michael will be serving as an assistant pastor at Carrubbers Christian Centre with a primary role of overseeing and giving leadership to the University Student Ministry. You can access Carrubbers Christian Centre website at: Carrubers.org. Our personal homepage is: Click Here!

I knew Mikey and Emily while we were all college students at the Master's College in California. Mikey was my first college RA and roomate for a year and a half at the California campus and then for a semester in Israel. Emily sang on chapel band. Mikey probably had the biggest impact on me during my years in college both through his example and challenge as a friend caring for my sanctification. I was able to observe the life of a spiritual man who made being pleasing to Jesus the priority of his life (2 Cor. 5:9). While we were seminary students together, I witnessed his growth in love for the land of Scotland, its history and ministry there. Mikey is the one who influenced me in the reading of puritan works and biography. Today he stands in a long history of witnesses for Jesus who with Knox pray "Give me Scotland or I die."

Now he labors to lead others to a saving knowledge of Jesus, to influence the church toward greater faithfulness to Christ through accurately teaching God's word, being a living example, faithful husband and father, and currently learning German and completing a Th.M degree. These people, of whom the world is not worthy, are worth writing and reading about.