https://www.facebook.com/SalemHeightsChurch/videos/992303341206145/
Remembering Jim Morris (1933-2020) – memorial service starts @ 17:40
https://omf.org/us/remembering-jim-morris-why-should-i-not-go-and-tell-them-of-him/
I came across Louise Morris’ Stronger than the Strong after attending my first GoForth Missions conference, as well as the STEPS program @ OMF. The biography of Jim and Louis Morris began to inspire and encourage me towards missions, discovering the rich legacy of the Morris and many other OMF missionary families, and the pioneer Baptist missionary Adoniram Judson, and the amazing history of the Karen people groups scattered across mainly Myanmar and Thailand. What stood out for me primarily was Jim’s lifeverse (which has been mine ever since as well), from Paul in Philippians 1.20-21,
… according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I shall not be put to shame in anything, but that with all boldness, Christ shall even now, as always, be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
To have arrived almost exactly 1 year ago here in Chicagoland for doctoral intercultural studies, his passing at this time is especially memorable and significant for me, as I owe much of the starting of my journey in missions to him. I praise and thank God for Jim’s life and the Morris’ legacy for His glory and kingdom. May their example model and inspire generations of disciplers of all nations!