That was something that Silas asked us one time while we were in Puerto. “What do you think feet first, first time means?” Well there were lots of assumptions of what the meaning actually is but it really does apply to our next month.
We are breaking up into 5 different groups. We are not in our “typical” teams this month and so we are in whole new groups. There is a group going back to Granada doing music ministry in and around that city. One team is going to do a Luke 10 ATL (Ask The Lord) and just go in faith and see where they end up with a ministry contact. Another team is staying in Nicaragua working with an orphanage and a feeding program in different cities in Nicaragua. And yet another team is doing half the month with a contact and then finish up ATLing the rest of the month. My team (me, Allison, Sean, Lauren, Jessie, Sarah & Katey) are heading to Antigua, Guatemala. We are partnering with a pastor and a church there. But that is about all we know. We know these contacts through our friends (on the January 07′ Race) and they worked with him and the church and were extremely blessed by their ministry.
I am assuming a new role this month in my new team, and the new role is more logistical than I am used to, and I have a little anxiety. I am usually a follower and just go with the flow and go where people tell me to go. However this month I am the one who will be in main contact with the pastor we are working with. I will take that information and work with him and our team to figure out where we can plug in. It is exciting and a little bit more pressure than I am used to but I am excited about how the Lord will use this to stretch me again. The Lord has been stretching and pulling me a lot here in Central America and I look forward to what He will continue to teach me in Guatemala. I am praying for a rich month of ministry with opportunities to serve in new ways and to speak and preach. We desire to see souls saved and the truth proclaimed on the streets of Antigua. Please pray for us that God will use us mightily to make known the mysteries of the gospel in Guatemala!
Here we go…feet first into the unknown!
Praying at the same time for us as well, that God will open up to us a door for the word, so that we may speak forth the mystery of Christ…that I may make it clear in the way I ought to speak. Colossians 4:3a-4
