Work

This week the theme of growing, stretching and trying new things continued. Anyone in ministry will tell you that your “work” is very loosely defined, very flexible and basically wherever and however God opens a door you strive to follow. This means the days may be long, the days may be hard, the days may require many shifts in “plans”, the days may be exciting. Most importantly each day is filled with prayer, dependence on God and openness to how He leads.

As part of the new Community Development and Health Ministry we have been praying for and seeking more opportunities to empower our National neighbors to help themselves while also looking for ways to point to Christ and pray in the name of Jesus. This week we had the opportunity to partner with a ministry teaching “Farming God’s Way” and creating smaller “Gardens of Faithfulness”.

My work this week involved learning new gardening and farming buckets of vocabulary, coordinating the logistics for our visitors who were teaching the program, driving back and forth to town for supplies as well as running a shuttle service for our employees who worked night and day on this project, visiting gardens in search of seedlings, preparing a garden plot and making sure the snake who was living there was dead, “shopping” for mulch (no Lowes or Home Depot here so we searched the town for good grass and when none was to be found we knocked on doors in search of peanut shells, good thing harvest was a few weeks ago), providing tea with lots of caffeine and sugar to keep the workers going, arranging a yummy celebratory breakfast on day #3, praying over this new garden and ministry opportunity, encouraging our employees and sitting back with tears of joy and praise as I watched them come together and the Lord provide!

I look forward to sharing with you a lot more about this project and how you can be praying in my March Newsletter