I’ve been getting requests that I write more about our ministry, people asking what we are doing with our days in the communities we live in. I’ve been sharing a bit about what is going on for me spiritually, with my team, where we have been living (just you wait till I tell you about our new house. Check out my teammate Naomi’s blog, ‘we live in a microwave’) but I have not written much about ministry.
When I am doing ministry, I rarely think to take out my camera. I am usually knee deep in kiddos, or learning someone’s story. I’m so enjoying the moment that I rarely think about documenting it. I hope that makes sense. I will be writing soon with some details about what we are doing, it just seems like my words can convey such a small, small piece of the impact that ministry is having on me.
I can tell you this, all last month, I couldn’t wait to get out the door and into the communities. We volunteered in a hospital playing with kids with cerebral palsy, visited with the elderly at two Abuelo houses, and worked with a ministry teaching values to kids at school. So, that’s what we did for ministry, here’s what ministry looks like:
Yesterday my team put together food for 50 families in a very poor community. We prayed with the whole community on the side of the road, then hiked down a small canyon to pray for a lady who has diabetes and was in the hospital for 20 days getting her infected toe removed.
We goofed around with children. I drew flowers in the dirt with two precious little girls, then practiced making rock cairns, stacking rocks on top of each other, seeing how many we could get to balance perfectly. I played ‘which hand is the rock in’ with a fussy baby to keep her from crying during prayer. I smiled a lot, and was smiled at. It was beautiful.
