We are currently in month two of the race and we are together as a squad, all 45 of us. We’re working with a ministry that is a camp in the summer and they are as self-sustaining as possible. They have goats, sheep, pigs, and chickens. We have been taking care of the animals and building a new home to house 80 new goats the camp just purchased. We have been cleaning out the pig pens for sows to have piglets. Yesterday when the day was ending, we checked on the mama pigs and one of them was having babies! She had 10 healthy piglets and 3 that didn’t make it. Not small tasks, but when there are 45 of us doing everything things get accomplished faster.
As a team we have started reading Jesus Calling together in the morning and the other day we read about anxiety, and we talk about anxiety about the future and things we have to accomplish in this next month. Then we listened to a podcast and it talked about greed, and how the birds don’t worry about what they will eat. They take their life day by day. I have a guy on my team has a great aunt who always says day by day, you have to live life one day at a time. It has stuck with me, to not live in anxiety about the future, whether it be five minutes from now or next week or after the race. To not be greedy with my time or what I have, it may not be much but The Lord can do something with it. Living life day by day is putting your whole self, all you love, want, your passions, possessions into God’s hands and says I trust you with all that I am. It’s a choice you make every single day, no matter you circumstances.
This came into play this week as we as a squad have been asked to leave our ministry here in Albania to head to a small island in Greece to support Euro Relief, partnering with the UN to help receive Syrian refugees. In providing medical attention, and providing warm, dry clothes, and warm meals before they continue through Greece into the rest of Europe. This threw a curveball in our month but the need was greater somewhere else and that is where we are going, we weren’t called to be settled we were called to be sent. We have to live day by day over the next few weeks because we really don’t know the extent of the things we will be stepping into.
Please be praying for my team and my squad as we prepare for our journey south to Greece and for our time there that we find rest when we need it and that we can be hope to these people who may feel like they have nothing left.
