Witnesses have a lifetime commitment to Jesus in Scripture, Jesus in the Sacraments, Jesus in prayer, Jesus in evangelization. That’s not just a skill, but a life. Witnesses like that don’t just have a mission. They are a mission.

All the people who have been faithful for a really long time started receiving heaven a really long time ago. They have been receiving the very life of Christ, perhaps daily, for decades. They have spent all those years in Jesus’ friendship, and been transformed by that experience.