“What would you be doing at this time last year,” asked a
teammate. I realized that I would be sitting at my cubicle frantically
preparing another tax return in attempt to meet the March 15 deadline. Fast
forward one year and now you will find me, not behind a computer in a cubicle,
but on a demo farm sifting through dirt to find “African Night Crawlers,” (aka
worms) to help families cultivate their farms.
This month we
are working with International Care Ministries (ICM), an organization devoted
to developing the community of Dumaguete and advancing the kingdom of God. One
of the many service opportunities that ICM offers is a Demo Farm, which helps
teach the people of the community how to cultivate their own mini farm. The
idea behind the farm is similar to the parable of the fisherman: give a man a
fish and he eats for a day, but teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.
