Hey Friends,
Month one of 11 is over! It went by sooo fast. My apologies for not being able to post anything for the past few weeks, the internet where we were for the month broke down and stayed broken down. I’m going to try and sum up what our month was like and the very necessary lessons the Lord was good to teach me.
Just to recap, my team and I were in a village in Ukraine working with a missionary at Pine Branch Camp. Week one the camp hosted teenage missionary kids, and wk 2 was elementary age mk’s. Both weeks we spent most of our time serving; helping cook, cleanig up after meals, scrubbing bathrooms, etc. We got to be cabin counselors for the younger kids which was fun. It’s niceto be around kids who I can tell are well loved by their parents, its encouraging. The last week was camp for the village kids, we were group counselors which was a lot of fun. The language barrier was huge, so not a lot of verbal communication went down, but we learned how to “talk” to each other. This was my favorite week, some of the kids hadn’t heard of Jesus before and came from abusive homes, so I loved just being part of them hearing about Jesus and being loved well, praying for them,even if it was only for a week. Please pray for protection over the seeds that were planted in the hearts of the kids this week!
So I’m learning that the Kingdom is so different than I thought, the King is much better that I thought I knew. I need new eyes to see, I need to stand where the Father is and look with His eyes out into the world. I had a lot of questions this month, a lot of things that confused me went down and I couldn’t reason my way through them. A friend gave me this verse before I left and I decided to hold on to it; “I will stand on my guardpost and station myself on the rampart; and I will keep watch to see what He will speak to me..” Habakuk 2:1. The Lord did speak to me, because He is faithful. I told Him about my attitude towards my workload, how lame it was and how I wanted to find joy in doing what was given to me. I learned that serving isn’t about what you’re doing, it’s not about having a work load I think is fair, it isn’t about what other people are doing, it’s about Jesus. Do I only find joy serving Him when I’m doing something I like doing, when I feel like I’m being treated well in the process? Jesus is worthy. Worthy to be served with joy all of the time, wether its cleaning toilets or scrubbing pots or simply listening, no matter the circumstances. He is the treasure worth everything, and at the end of the day it’s Him that we serve. “Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, knowing that from the Lord you will recieve the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.” Colossians 3:23-24
I’m going to have to do a part 2 for this post. We got to Romania yesterday and get a day off today to explore Bucharest! Thanks so much for being part of this journey with me. Please pray for safe travels for our squad for the next few days as we meet up and then spread out again to different ministries in Romania. Peace of Christ.
