The World Race: Month 1 – Women’s Ministry at Casa Elizabeth and Casa Adelia.
Or so we thought. Our ministry has been different then we thought it would be. We thought that we would be spending everyday doing women’s ministry at either Casa Elizabeth or Casa Adelia. In reality, we split our time between working with the teenage mom’s and their babies at Casa Elizabeth and manual labour at the seminary or Pastor Roberto’s church. Does that mean I don’t like my ministry? Not in the least!
I love spending days working with the lovely ladies of Casa Elizabeth and helping care for their children, getting to know them and doing Bible study with them. They each have a story and they each have their individual struggles. Struggles that are only made more difficult when they are moms at 17, 18 and even 14 years old. Just spending time with them is a blessing. I will share more about these yong women on another day though!
The manual labour? Well, that was quite unexpected. But it is rewarding in it’s own manner. It is serving God’s Kingdom through our hands doing physical work and I really enjoy that. Never did I think that my women’s ministry would involve painting, weeding, making beds, cleaning pots and pans, drilling, hammering and lifting heavy objects. But it does and it’s beautiful. Making things new, improving them for God’s work and ministering to the people we are helping. Today we were even blessed to be working along side another missionary who has been a missionary in Ecuador and Venezuela for 22 years!
We are being blessed and blessing others through acts of service through manual labour and I wouldn’t have it any other way. My dad won’t know what hit him when I come home with all my “handyman” skills improved! So there it is…women’s ministry turned into manual labour! Oh, and did I mention that we are an all girls team!? Pretty impressive, isn’t it?
