So you may or may not know, I am team leading an all guys team. It doesn’t really feel like a new team because we had already lived with each other the month prior for manistry month.
After debrief at Lake Malawi, we came to our ministry location. We are working/living on a campus called “African Bible College”. The ministry is so sweet and the facility is so nice.
We basically get to pick our ministry and what we want to do for the next 2 months. Some people are teaching swim lessons, others are teachers aides, some are working at the radio station, and some of us are doing sports.
I’ve never liked construction all that much, but I wanted to get a little out of my comfort zone, so I am doing construction for a couple weeks. We are building onto the clinic on campus! I am also coaching my own basketball team of 5th-8th graders. Coaching has been one of my dreams in life and I get to do that on the race!
One of my personal goals for the rest of the race was to think outside the box and get outside the norm of a day to day racer… so here is a little glimpse of how that has happened this week…
So as team leader, one of my responsibilities is organizing/facilitating daily team times with my team. My ministry host in Zambia gave us a really good devotion on servanthood, sacrifice and surrender. So I decided to conduct a 3 week series for team teams with my team. This was our first week and we focused on the servanthood part of it.
Monday we had a worship team time where we washed each other’s feet and prayed for each other as we are halfway through the race. I got to serve one of my best friends on the race, Josh, just like Jesus did in John 13:1-17.
Tuesday we went through the story of Abraham and his servant going to get a wife for Isaac, which ended up being Rebekah. One of the coolest things from that story is when Rebekah gets water for the camels and the servant and it says that, “After she had given him a drink, she said, “I’ll draw water for your camels too, until they have had enough to drink.””
??Genesis? ?24:19?.
So the trek that the servant made was around a 500 mile trek and it says that one camel can drink up to 25 gallons of water after a trek like that. Imagine how many trips Rebekah had to make to get enough water for 10 camels… wow, that blows my mind on how she serves the servant and the camels when she didn’t even know who he was.
Anyways, service is on my heart this last week and Jesus is working in that area of my life. Go out of your way to serve somebody, trust me, it’s more rewarding for you than the person you are serving.
