Go And Make Disciples Of All Nations

By Gwyn Page and Dave Page

Explore the ways this couple reached people with astounding results. Travel with them as they go to exciting cities in Europe and North Africa. Learn of the difficulties the Pages had and how they overcame them. Find out what life is really like on the mission field.

• Language: English
• Publisher: ARPress
• Release date: Dec 11, 2023
• ISBN: 9798893303216

Gwyn Page

The day Gwyn Page married was when she became a preacher's wife. Later she became a mother and a chaplain's wife. After her husband retired from the Navy, they were led to the mission field where she caught a virus that left her with asthma and heart trouble. They were forced to transfer to the cooler climate of Ukraine. She taught ESL in both countries, using the Bible as a text.

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Table Of Contents

In Memoriam 

Recipes from Abroad 

Ukrainian Borsch 

About the Authors 

In Memoriam

This book is in memory of our son, Carey Thomas Page, who was taken from us too early. He has gone on to be with the Lord, after a critical auto accident.

It was a hot day, even for November, in this strange place. Men walked past in long robes with a strip of cloth wound round and round on their heads. I was waiting for my husband, Dave, and another missionary who had entered a building for documents. Sitting in the back seat of a car in Fes, Morocco, I waited, noticing people as they walked to and fro who looked like pictures I’d seen in my grandmother’s old Bible. Men and women alike wore long robes with head coverings. It was as if I’d traveled back several thousand years to this new place. It was an eerie feeling. What was I doing here?

My husband and I volunteered to come to this North African city, when we learned there was a need for a pastor in the English-speaking church. We learned that the country was 99 percent Muslim among 30 million people and very few Christians lived here. That, in itself, was a compelling reason we should be here, working for the Lord.

We each felt the Lord leading us into missionary service before we even met. I was just seventeen years old and dedicated my life to full time mission service when my pastor preached about the lost world. He said the reason there are so many lost souls in the world is because we don’t tell them the good news, either here in the States or overseas, and they were going to hell. As the church service ended, I raced up the hill to my grandparents’ home, several blocks away. I was in a hurry to get there, since I didn’t want my grandfather to die before I could tell him how Jesus had died for our sins. I hadn’t had any soul-winning classes yet but stumbled through telling him what was in my heart. As I told him all he had to do was ask the Lord for forgiveness, he never said a word, but a big tear rolled down his cheek as I finished my pitiful presentation.

My husband felt the call as a freshman in a Baptist college and dedicated his life to mission service, even though he was a ministerial student with a part-time pastorate in southern Missouri. So, that’s what we were doing here! It was also because of the verses in Matthew 28: 19–20.

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely, I am with you always, to the very end of the age.

It was thirty-four years later, after college, Dave’s three years in seminary, three children, twelve years of Dave pastoring churches in four States, and twenty-two years of his years in the Navy as a chaplain.

Why did it take us so long to get to the foreign field of mission service? Because all these other things were part of God’s plan too. Since we’d made a commitment to the Lord to follow Him in mission service, the Holy Spirit didn’t forget.

He reminded us later on. I was reading a book called Out of the Saltshaker and into the World by Rebecca Pippert when the Lord spoke to me again. I could hear the Holy Spirit as He said, When are you going to fulfill your promise of so many years ago to go to the mission field? And, it was the second