Seniors Makensie, Hannah and Bethany Cobb are triplets with one united goal \u2014 to spread the Gospel to the nations. They are all currently studying to become nurses with an emphasis in missions. <\/p>\n
This summer, Makensie spent 12 weeks in an undisclosed part of North Africa, Hannah spent nine weeks in Greece, and Bethany spent six weeks in Papau New Guinea. <\/p>\n
In North Africa, Makensie worked with an unengaged people group comprised of mostly Muslim backgrounds. She said that she worked in the 10\/40 window, which is the latitude and longitude at the top of North Africa, the Middle East and the bottom of Asia.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a highly concentrated area of people that have either not heard [the Gospel] or Muslims \u2014 just non-Christians,\u201d Makensie said. \u201cI had not interacted with Muslim people much, and I wanted that experience.\u201d <\/p>\n
Makensie traveled to North Africa through an organization called Cafe 1040.<\/p>\n
\u201cCafe 1040 provided me with ways that I could get practical application in missions,\u201d Makensie said. \u201cInteracting with people, being in their culture and seeing how they live was important to know how to spread the Gospel effectively in such a secure area.\u201d<\/p>\n
Makensie could only communicate through email, talking in code to ensure the safety of her team and the people she was discipling. She said it was very powerful to see how the Word of God transformed people even under such strict circumstances. <\/p>\n
One woman, who Makensie referred to as Sally to maintain anonymity, was curious about Christ and was moved to tears by the Gospel. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe were sitting and talking with Sally, and she had a lot of hard things going on in her life,\u201d Makensie said. \u201cWe mentioned a passage of Scripture that was comforting, and \u2026 she just starts crying \u2014 she was hearing the Word of God for the first time. It was incredible to see how the living Word of God impacted her, and I pray that it will continue to change her life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hannah spent 11 weeks traveling with Greater Europe Mission, building relationships with the local people and partnering with churches in Athens, Greece. <\/p>\n
\u201cMost of my time in Greece was about developing relationships and walking alongside new believers in discipleship,\u201d Hannah said. \u201cI have felt called to minister to people from Muslim backgrounds, specifically the Middle East, and God opened a door for me to do that this summer.\u201d<\/p>\n
One week, Hannah travelled to the island of Lesvos, one of the most heavily populated arrival points for refugees, and saw the effects of the international refugee crisis firsthand. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe got to see the refugee camp and the shoreline where the boats come in daily on the northeastern side,\u201d Hannah said. \u201cRight now there are over 10,000 refugees at this camp; the camp can\u2019t compensate for the number of people that are being held there, so the conditions were rough.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Hannah, the freedom that Christianity offers was key to spreading the Gospel to her Muslim friends in both Athens and Lesvos. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe got to share with refugees and believers and remind them that while the religion that they might have grown up in was oppressive, as believers in Christ, there\u2019s freedom,\u201d Hannah said. \u201cIt\u2019s incredible to see how much God\u2019s grace impacts these refugees, bringing them from a place of such oppression and war to a place where they are surrounded by Christians.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Bethany trained with missionaries in Papua New Guinea for six weeks. She traveled with an organization called Ethnos360, which focuses on discipleship training. <\/p>\n
\u201cI hope to be a missionary one day to an unreached people group, and Ethnos360 teaches people how to do that,\u201d Bethany said. \u201cI wanted to learn what it was like \u2014 in the good and hard times \u2014 and this summer, I got a very realistic perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n
One week, Bethany said they lived among a tribe, accompanied by missionaries who had been adopted into the tribe after living there for 15 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the biggest struggles that tribal people face comes when they see outsiders or wealthy people,\u201d Bethany said. \u201cThey see all that the outsiders have and want to appease the \u2018god\u2019 they believe in just to acquire material things. They wanted God, but didn\u2019t truly know him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bethany and her team worked to break through their worldview and got to witness transformation as they grew to know who God really is.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got to sit in on a teaching of the first chapters of Acts, and a few days before, the people had just heard the Gospel story,\u201d Bethany said. \u201cIt was so cool to see that seed being planted and say, \u2018OK, there\u2019s a lot of people here whose eyes are being opened and who are excited to learn more about the Word of the Lord.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
This summer, each of the Cobb triplets faithfully trusted the Lord and went to different overseas locations in order to spread the Gospel.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s really cool is everyone has been called to make disciples of all nations,\u201d Bethany said. \u201cThat\u2019s just really exciting to me.\u201d <\/p>\n
Now that they are back home, they said that goal remains the same.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are all called to spread the Gospel \u2026 whether that\u2019s overseas or stateside,\u201d Makensie said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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