“The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God’s call or not depends on the condition of my ears...” – Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
How are your ears? Have you heard God calling you to join him on his mission?
Cynthia and Danny Asirit have. Their call involved a car accident, a vision, and a mountain.
Originally from the Philippines, Cynthia and Danny migrated to Canada in 1999. Cynthia was born Catholic and, as she puts it, “had no idea what a Christian was.” That changed when she went to work for a cleaning company owned by two Christians. “They looked so different,” she says, “the peace, the life...! I started praying for God to show me what he had shown them.”
She eventually got a Bible and God led her to John 3:16. “Something happened that day,” she explains. “The Lord got a hold of my heart and I understood his love in an amazing way. So I accepted Jesus and got saved.”
She began studying the Bible and soon convinced her husband and mother – both still nominal Catholics – to join her. “They thought I was going crazy during that time,” she confesses, but they eventually accepted the Lord too. The three of them began going to church and were baptized.
While that testimony is definitely worth celebrating, it’s only the beginning of Cynthia and Danny’s story. Twelve years later, the Holy Spirit began moving powerfully in their lives. “I had a terrible car accident,” Cynthia explains. “I call it a spiritual awakening. I realized how fragile life is. Like James talks about, today life is here, tomorrow it’s gone, just like a vapor. I thought I was going to die and it shifted my perspective.
“I wanted to serve the Lord. So I said, ‘Lord, use me!’”
She soon began to study Biblical Counseling.
“During this time, while I was studying, the Holy Spirit spoke to me that I was going to start a ministry.” She dutifully noted this in her journal and soon forgot about it. But during COVID, she had a vision of a mountain with primitive huts and a bamboo building. When she prayed about it, the Lord told her, “This is the ministry: a retreat camp. There’s going to be evangelism, discipleship, healing–a place where people will encounter the Lord.”
She recognized the mountain in the vision as the Philippines, where she had been born. “I knew the Lord was calling Danny and me to be missionaries in the Philippines.” Once again, she wrote it in her journal, but then forgot about it.
About two years ago, Cynthia received a prompting from the Holy Spirit that now was the time. Acting on this, they consulted their pastor and were connected to a mission organization they had never heard of: Multiply. When they met the regional leader over the Philippines and shared about their calling, the leader told them they had been praying for a biblical counselor to be added to their team.
The leader of the team then showed them a photo of their work in Brooke’s Point, Palawan. It was, of course, the mountain Cynthia had seen in her vision.
In 2023, she and Danny traveled to visit the mountain. They are now in the process of raising support to go as missionaries to the Philippines.
It took an accident, a vision, and a mountain to guide Cynthia and Danny into God’s mission field. What will it take for you?
