It's known as deputation. For over two years, Charles and Stephanie Westco traveled from church to church,

sharing their vision to join God's work as missionaries to Africa, and inviting others to join their support team.

Charles often preached. Serving Christ always comes with a cost, and yet in America, we're like the rich young ruler sometimes.

I've been here done this.

We want to figure out some way to make a side hobby out of Christianity.

We want to figure out a way without the cost, without losing any of earth's treasures,

to still have a comfortable life and still lay up treasure in heaven.

How foolish.

How utterly foolish that is. And Stephanie kept the family

going. They lived in a motorhome along with their eight children. She wrote this in her journal,

looking back on that time. Those were days of great anticipation and excitement. As we looked

forward even then to getting to Cameroon to begin what we hoped

and thought would be serving the Lord there for the rest of our lives.

We can have so many things in a family that can be business, that can be ministry, that

can be church, that our young people aren't willing to stretch

out their necks and go out into the world and preach the gospel to every creature across

the world.

And we need to realize that serving Christ always comes with the cross.

Those 12 days the Lord gave us in Cameroon will always be treasured memories.

We absolutely loved being there.

God gave us the desire of our heart, being with the people we loved so much.

Though I will never understand the wise, I know my Savior does all things well.

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