80% of the world’s evangelical Christians live in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Over the last 50 years, God’s church has grown exponentially in these areas.

These regions have tremendous mission sending potential to help bring the gospel to unreached peoples, but they currently send only 20% of the world’s cross-cultural missionaries!

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God desires to build his kingdom through families. In Genesis 17, God changes Abram&rsquo;s name to Abraham and promises to make him the father of many nations. God establishes an eternal covenant with Abraham and his offspring that will be passed down from generation to generation (Genesis 17:1-7). About 2000 years later, God fulfills his covenant to bless all peoples through Abraham and his descendants&ndash;Christ the Messiah is born to be the Savior of the world. Today, more than 4000 years after the time of Abraham, God still uses generational legacies to make himself known.
My great-great-grandfather, Carsten Christensen, was a legacy-leaver. The choices he made for the kingdom of God led to generational faithfulness that continues to this day and, Lord willing, will continue for generations to come.
In 1885 Carsten Christensen immigrated to the United States from Denmark. He and his wife settled in a region rich in farmland with some of the most fertile soil around. Surely Carsten could support his family well as a farmer in this ideal location. However, Carsten valued his relationship with God more than material riches.
In 1900, he learned of spiritual revivals taking place in another region. Desiring his children to live lives faithful to the Lord, Carsten moved his family to where these revivals were happening. He longed for his sons and daughters to marry Christians and knew that an area experiencing revival would likely raise up godly men and women for them to choose from. Carsten left some of the best farmland in the US and moved with his family to where farmland was less desirable, but where God was at work.
Generational legacies that lead to spiritual faithfulness don&rsquo;t just happen by accident. Creating a generational legacy like my great-great-grandfather did requires intentionality, sacrifice, endurance, and prayer. Carsten Intentionally chose spiritual fruit for his family over material riches. He counted the cost and willingly sacrificed a life of potential wealth and comfort, knowing that his decision to move to an area where revival was happening would impact God&rsquo;s kingdom through his children, his grandchildren, and beyond. He intentionally shared his faith in Christ and lived it out with his children who were then equipped to share their faith with their own families. Each generation endured in their walk with the Lord, prayed for faithfulness to Jesus Christ for the next generation, and then passed on their legacy to those who came after them.
Fast forward 125 years (about 5-6 generations) to 2024. Hundreds of Carsten&rsquo;s descendants, including me, walk faithfully with the Lord Jesus Christ. We attend and serve in churches across the US. We have missionaries in our family who live cross-culturally, making Jesus known and worshiped around the world. Each time I am together with my extended family we give thanks for Carsten&rsquo;s faithful and intentional devotion to God. We give thanks for our godly heritage, displayed by those who came before, and we continue to pass on our hope in Christ to the next generation. We pray and trust that God will multiply our legacy to those who come behind us. Finally, we look ahead to heaven&ndash;when thousands of generations from every tongue, tribe, and nation will be gathered together around the throne of the Lamb declaring his praises for eternity!
What Christ-centered legacy will you leave for the generations to come? How will you intentionally pursue generational faithfulness in your family? Will you count the cost, pay the price, endure with hope, and pray to that end? When I get to heaven, I look forward to meeting my great-great-grandfather and showing him that his sacrifice and his example were worth it because Jesus is worthy. Jesus is worth it. Every single time.

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Mindy Christensen