1 Corinthians 12-13 The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.
Isaiah 61:1 We have been learning what it means to live in community. This morning I was praying and God laid on my heart. The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners.
Living in this community on the world race has been showing me what the body of Christ is like and how we are supposed to serve eachother out of God’s love. I was a selfish person before coming on this trip, but now I consider others before myself. We all have a job to do and we can’t do it as well as God wants us to without others and others’ gifts. In fact, experiencing God apart from community is almost impossible. We need others. In this way we synergistically empower each other to boldness, power, and love most importantly.
Here are some pictures from where I m now in Nauta Peru on the Meranon River that is one of the two rivers that combine to make the amazon river. This is the boat our entire team is living, eating, and sleeping on. It is cramped at times, but it is cool none the less. It is 80 feet long and has two decks on one side and three on the other. Men stay in the hold on the first deck which is through the door that the two men are sitting. Women are on the upper two decks and there is a deck in the middle where we eat and meet. The boat belongs to a local missionary who uses it to go up the river.
The women stay there on the top two decks with the green tarps.
The first night we were here we had to set up our mosquito nets, but they didn’t really work perfectly. Mosquitos can get in on the bottom if you don’t tuck it in perfectly.
This is another view of where the guys stay.
This girl is holding a Mojas.
This is my team mate Nate who is teaching a group of children how to play a game. We have VBS, but it is called Festival con Dios!
