“Bless the Lord for the volunteers!” was the cry of Deborah and Barak following the victory God gave Israel over Jabin, the king of Canaan.

That the leaders took the lead in Israel,
that the people offered themselves willingly (volunteered),
bless the Lord! (Judges 5:2)

At Desiring God, we are grateful to join with them in their thanksgiving. From our beginnings, God has blessed us with great volunteers who “offer themselves willingly.” We love the volunteer ministry not merely because it enables us to sustain our pay-whatever-you-can-afford policy, but because it is a reflection of God, the most radically generous person in the universe.

Our volunteers give themselves willingly because they love God and want to join in spreading a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples through Jesus Christ.

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I first traveled to Romania as a short-term missionary in 1987. The cruel Communist dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu was still exerting control over the public and private lives of the Romanian citizens. Christians who refused to deny their love for Christ, “choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God,” suffered much. In those days, communication between Romanian believers and western missionaries was greatly hampered by the secret police.

However, on Christmas Day, 1989, all that changed when the regime was overthrown.

Before that, it might have taken months for me to successfully pass on information to a pastor. Now, with a simple click of a computer key, it is accomplished in seconds. The internet is one of the most powerful ways we are able to spread a passion for God’s supremacy in all things for the joy of all peoples (in this case, Romanian p…

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