I really enjoy doing ministry. I know that ministry encompasses nearly every aspect of our daily lives, but it always seems more real and alive when your hands are actually getting dirty. I still consider myself a missionary; I’m just not the kind of missionary who fits into your typical mold. Not only am I going overseas and seeing the world changed from the nations, I’m also doing things locally because there’s no better place to be serving than the community in which you’re living.
Port Huron isn’t exactly the most extravagant of places. It’s not a poor city by any means, but it’s also not bubbling with wealth either. People struggle to get by here too. Downtown’s nothing more than a oblong street of historic brick buildings, monuments of memory lining the infamous river which divides our country from the borders of Canada. Scattered throughout the city’s parameters are pockets of residential districts, some patch-marked by money, others by poverty. People here – just like the rest of us – struggle to make it from paycheck to paycheck, and they also wonder how they’re going to put food on their table.
Through the series of grace-filled events, Cross Current bought two semi-trucks loaded with food to handout to the community on Wednesday afternoon. Being the community-driven people that we are, the entire World Race staff up here decided to go help out. Despite the fact that it felt like subzero temperatures outside, it was worth the trek outside the comforts of the home office.
Most of you know that I have a heart for the poor, the homeless, and the beggars that line the roads of those third-world countries covering our planet. I have no idea why my hands move so quickly at opportunities to serve these kinds of people. Maybe it’s something about being able to fulfill an immediate need that always gets me, but I absolutely love it.
When we walked into the church this afternoon we were overcome by what we saw. We had just left the house after what seemed like an already overwhelming workday. We change the nations from the basement of our home by mobilizing missionaries and wakening a generation. Then from the four walls of a building down the road and through the backbreaking work of dishing out massive boxes of food, we feed a community of people in need.
A generation that’s empowering a generation is also feeding multiple generations.
It’s incredible.
In the course of about one hour we fed over 330 families. That’s a lot of people and a lot of food! It’s such a blessing to be here in a community where we’re not just living, but we’re also serving.
And the journey continues. Today we travel to Georgia to strategically plan how we’re going to better do this thing, how we’re going to better mobilize a generation and equip it to go change the world, to bring the Kingdom. However, it’s only possible to do this thing with ministry partners such as yourselves. I have to raise my own financial support in order to travel places not just nationally, but internationally. I have to raise my own financial support to cover lodging costs when I travel to these far-off places. I have to raise my own financial support to keep food in my belly so I don’t end up like the malnourished kids we feed in Africa. I have to raise my own financial support in order to put in the time it takes to mobilize and awaken this generation to send it out to change the world. And I have to raise my own financial support to continue staying in this community of Port Huron so I can serve it.
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