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Part 6: Maria Long - The Mission of The Heart
Jen G: Now from what I can tell, much like your parents from high school onto college God was using your singing and heart for souls led you to really go out into the mission field on your own. Tell me what it was like to be a missionary on such a small island like Yap where the population is only a few thousand?
Maria Long Amazing! I loved those people. My students became my kids and we still keep in touch! It changed my life! I wrote Call On Him on that island because one day I was walking down to my classroom for school and a man had hung himself and he was hanging from the tree. They didn't even take him down till the end of the day it broke my heart and just think I'm trying to teach and all my students are just looking at that. Yap had a very high suicide rate.
Jen G: I can't even imagine that.
Maria Long Because people didn't have God and there is nothing to do once you graduate from school except like work at the grocery store you know.
Jen G: No hope.
Maria Long Not much purpose. Yeah, no hope of something better. So that day I was talking with my students about like what would make a person want to do that
and they said well if they felt like they had nobody to call on or tell.
Jen G: They feel alone.
Maria Long So many people do. You know just last month A woman wrote me and her husband told me this too, that he came in the house and found her lying on the floor crying because she was listening to Call On Him and accepted Christ finally into her life instead of pushing him away and trying to deal with everything alone, I could not believe it!
Jen G: What a testimony!
Maria Long I cried so hard. Because you know you never think what you wrote will impact someone. You hope it does, but man I can't believe it! God is so amazing to give me those kind of experiences. It is the most meaningful thing ever!
Jen G: God He uses us as vessels to reach those in uncommon ways. That is amazing because some people will turn on the radio before stepping into a church.
Maria Long Yeah that's so true.
Jen G: I love that about musicians, they reach the unreachable, unknowingly, many times.
Maria Long Such a powerful thought!
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