Last month we (22 people I was with) were blessed to work on over 10 different out reaches in 4 or 5 areas of Southern Romania. The friends I met there will be ever in my prayers and I am sure they are ones I will spend eternity with. What an awesome vision that they cast for their mission. God has blessed their labors fully with eternal blessings. I was personally involved in house visits, street evangelism, as well as clean up around the church property, kids clubs through out the area, and got to preach at one service the last week we were there. This last month was also special because I got to spend 5 days with my parents who got to work along side me in this community.
AIM has been preparing us for what reentry looks like as I think about how to explain what this trip has meant to me these last 11 months. How do you summarize an experience like this in a 15 second greeting with someone, or even two minutes for that matter. That same thing is what my parents went through when they got back. They had a hard time explaining their 5 day trip to people in 2 minutes, it just isn't possible. God has done so much in my life in the last 9 and half months that to try and explain it to you it would take more than a 5 minute conversation. But I understand life goes on and American culture teaches us how to "Thesis Statement" our lives, but I don't want to give a short version of anything. To do that would be to say ",God I know you took 11 months to teach me something but I am going to tell someone in one sentence what that was." It isn't possible nor should we try to give a briefing of what God is teaching us. We need to speak every opportunity with a testimony of the Lords grace that has been given to us by the Lord. Living lives unashamed of His message.
