Do you see?

Do you see, do you see all the people sinking down?

Don't you care, don't you care, are you gonna let them drown?

How can you be so numb not to care if they come?

You close your eyes and pretend the job's done

"Oh bless me Lord, bless me Lord", you know it's all I ever hear
No one aches, no one hurts, no one even sheds one tear
But He cries, He weeps, He bleeds, and He cares for your needs
And you just lay back and keep soaking it in
Oh, can't you see it's such a sin?

Cause He brings people to your door, and you turn them away
As you smile and say, "God bless you, be at peace"
And all heaven just weeps 'cause Jesus came to your door
You've left him out on the streets

Open up, open up and give yourself away
You see the need, you hear the cries, so how can you delay
God's calling and you're the one; but like Jonah you run
He's told you to speak but you keep holding it in,
Oh can't you see it's such sin?

The world is sleeping in the dark that the church just can't fight
Cause it's asleep in the light
How can you be so dead when you've been so well fed?
Jesus rose from the grave
And you, you can't even get out of bed

Come away, come away, come away with Me my love,
Come away, from this mess, come away with Me, my love.

The words of this song still pierce my heart just like they did in 1981 when I was driving home from my teaching job and it came on the radio.  I was waiting at a stoplight in downtown Minneapolis as dozens of people were crossing in front of me on their way home from work.  I heard the words, saw the people and began to weep, which turned to deep sobs as I began to feel God's heart for the lost.  The light turned green so I drove on and pulled over as the song continued.  I committed my life to missions service that day and became a missionary in 1982, during the same summer that Keith died in a plane crash.   

Encouragement from the Mission Field

Swedish Pioneers Incite A Movement
Mongolia
In 1993, a young YWAM couple from Sweden, Magnus and Maria, moved to Erdenet, Mongolia. There was not a single known believer in that city, and the country as a whole was lost in darkness. The couple found early positive response among teenage girls and soon had a group to disciple in basic Christian principles. The YWAM church planting team grew, and so did the nascent church of Erdenet, with 120 baptized believers after one year. By 1996 - in just three short years - the spiritual breakthrough was so powerful and widespread that the expatriate YWAM team turned the church over to Mongolian leaders and left the country. But the miracle was not yet complete.

The church in Erdenet delved farther into God's word and discovered new truths and new responsibilities, reaching out in practical ways to the poor of their community and continuing to grow at an unprecedented pace. Missionaries were trained and sent out from Erdenet, eventually establishing new churches in every people group of Mongolia.

Today, of YWAM's 330 church-planting teams worldwide, 10% are made up of long-term, full-time Mongolian workers.