When you hear the words “mission field,” where does your mind go? Africa? South America? Somewhere overseas? Maybe a missionary standing in a place you’ve never been, speaking a language you don’t understand. That certainly can be a mission field. But you have one too.

Jesus told His disciples they would be His witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and eventually to the ends of the earth. There was a global assignment—but it started right where they were.

There’s a principle here that is much closer to home. Everybody has a “there.” There’s somewhere you go when you leave here. There’s somebody you encounter when you leave here. There’s a world you walk into every morning that most of the people sitting in church with you will never enter. Whether it’s your workplace, your neighborhood, school, the gym, coffee shop, the people you do business with … that’s your THERE!

Sometimes we miss our assignment because it looks too much like our ordinary life. We’re waiting for God to send us somewhere significant while overlooking the people He has already placed around us. But what if your workplace isn’t just where you earn a paycheck? What if the ball field isn’t just where your kids play? What if your neighborhood isn’t just where your house happens to be? What if God has strategically placed you in those spaces because there are people there who need what you’re carrying?

We’ve learned that there’s treasure in you—but now we know where some of that treasure is supposed to go. It’s supposed to go … There! You don’t have to preach a sermon. You don’t have to force a conversation. You simply show up carrying Jesus into places where God has already given you influence. Share your story when the opportunity comes and keep planting seeds – None of us can reach everybody, but everybody can reach somebody.