Over the past two weeks, I haven't had as much of a chance to post, so I thought I would just post twice tonight to make up for it...this is the second.
Too much has happened recently to even try to explain in this post, so I will just give a few highlights.
I spent all of yesterday finishing up a sandbox for the kids at the daycare center. It takes way longer than I could have ever imagined here, but I have to admit that it feels more satisfying when you get done. The lid was actually a bit complicated because the sandbox was definitely not made to be a perfect square...maybe it's more of a rhombus. But, despite it's shape, I was able to successfully put it all together, and it works pretty smoothly, so I am happy about that.
The short term team from Malaysia/Korea arrived three days ago, so I have been a lot busier helping them since they got here. Friday, I took them on a prayer walk around the city for a couple of hours, and it turned out to be a really good time of praying for the people and the city. This tuesday, I will be leading the team on a three-day trek. We will be driven a few hours from the city and dropped off. We will then hike to the river, catch a boat across, and start making our way back through the jungle. We will be passing many villages and will be stopping to ask for a place to sleep at one of them when it starts getting late. We have no map (there just aren't detailed ones for the area where we'll be), but as long as we know where the river is, we will be able to get back. The really exciting thing about this trek is that we will be focusing on prayer. We are sort of plowing the ground as we go because we will be praying for the people we meet and taking detailed notes about where we go and possibly transferring some "reading material." After we get back, all the information we take down will be used to send in another local believer behind us. He will be following up on the people we encounter and will be able to really do a lot because he can speak and move within the culture a lot better than we can. The coolest thing about all of this is that it is a clear example that prayer can be, and is, action! We need to be bathing all we do, all of our ministry, in prayer because God answers it with power. Man, God is amazing, and I am more than blessed to be able to serve Him here and now, or anywhere. I hope nobody forgets that.
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Well, this would have been posted on the same day as the last one, but the date showed up different than I expected it to because I started it a couple days before I published it...anyway, just clarifying that obvious mistake in my post.
ReplyDeleteDude! You're on a three day trek in _____! I hope you don't die, but like I told Josh, if you do, I'll write a slightly embellished biography of your short, but unusually blessed life. Your trip is definitely different from mine; God seems to be working in me primarily by allowing all of my plans to come crashing down in hilariously miserable failures. I think it's working though, because I'm becoming more like Job every day. Some stuff is really cool though, like the rare operations I'm seeing and crazy obvious lessons God is teaching me through hours of reading/praying/meditating/writing. I can't believe we're gonna be back at old TFC soon. Hope you've been able to stay in shape for soccer conditioning!
ReplyDeletehahaha...soccer conditioning?...yeah right. I did buy a ball, I'm supposed to play with my neighbors tonight, and I'm considering going running up a nearby mountain with hundreds of stairs.
ReplyDeleteDude, the trek was from a dream! I never knew if I would get to experience something like that (read the next post). Thanks for the help with the biography, but I don't think I'll be needing it just yet...maybe one day.
Your trip makes me laugh a lot. It sounds like God is making you like Job in the failures, but still providing some awesome blessings. It's funny that you've been rereading Foster because I've been reading the other discipline book by Dallas Willard. Life-changing stuff...even if some of it should be obvious. I think even old TFC will be different for me in a lot of ways. See ya $JoeVin$