For 8 days I was out at the South Africa School of Theology, helping to paint their administration building.
Painting. On the World Race. Are you serious? I spent 8 whole days just painting?
That’s hard for me to grasp for a second…I’m actually cool with it, because I’ve painted before, and I almost like it sometimes, but I can’t help but think every once in a while,
“Should we be doing something more meaningful than this?”
I thought back to what I think was the first mission trip I ever did. It was to Wheeling, West Virginia with ‘Group Workcamps.’ My little team ended up painting a lady’s house for a week. And that was my first mission trip. Yet here I am, on this ‘big’ mission trip, painting again.
Shouldn’t I have moved along a little bit by now? I mean I’m on ‘THE WORLD RACE!’
I don’t know, but it’s something I’ve learned this year:
the little stuff is just as important as the big stuff. The painting may have seemed like not much to us, but I heard Gibson say repeatedly that he was extremely grateful and blessed by us painting that building. And a great friendship was born, and hopefully a friendship that lasts and will result in seeing one another again someday.
All that to say…that you don’t have to do the ‘big stuff’ to be doing what God wants you to do or what is worthwhile. Painting can be way worth it.
