I recently received a wall plaque with the words “Amazing Grace” laid out to form a cross. “Amazing” is written vertically, while “Grace” is the horizontal cross piece. Lately I have been involved in groups where we have sung “Amazing Grace”—three times in four days. All this started me thinking about God’s grace.

When my parents discovered they were going to have a third child, they decided to ask my father’s Aunt Grace and Uncle Burt to select the name. Uncle Burt would choose the girl’s name, and Aunt Grace would choose the boy’s name.

I am that third child. So they went with Uncle Burts’ choice, which was Elizabeth Grace, Elizabeth after the Queen (they were British citizens) and Grace after his wife, with the understanding that I would be called Grace. Mom and Dad did not want me called by my middle name, so they switched the order to Grace Elizabeth.

I have always liked my name (except as a teenager when my family called me Gracie, and I did not want to be called by that childish name anymore). But I often do not feel like I live up to my name. I knew a boy in Colorado who would ask me, “What is so amazing about Grace?”

I would reply, “There is nothing very amazing about this Grace. God’s grace is what is amazing.”

I just finished rereading The Desire of Ages by Ellen White. It refreshed in my mind and heart the true extent of God’s grace: that God’s love for humanity is so great that He sent His Son to suffer as He did throughout His entire life, especially at the end, because He wanted to renew His relationship with His lost creation. That is so hard to wrap my mind around. 

The whole purpose of Adventist Frontier Missions is to reach the unreached, to find those who have never had the opportunity to learn about God’s grace and love and show them that Jesus suffered and died for them, and that God wants to have a relationship with them now and throughout eternity. 

Is God calling you to help reach the unreached? Is He asking you to step out in faith and become one of His messengers, telling the unreached of His amazing grace and love for them? If you feel called, please contact AFM. If you do not sense God calling you to go, please pray for those who have, who are already in the field or are fundraising to launch. Please also consider providing financial support to AFM and our missionaries.

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