This week we switched it up for ministry and everyone is doing different things with different people.
Some people are doing kids camp, women’s camp, and going to cabin restaurants. We signed up for what we felt the Lord calling us to do. I chose to go and do some manual labor at a farm where mentally and physically disabled people live. The people that live here have been rejected from their Hindu families.
This whole place is called the prayer tower. There is someone praying 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. This has been something they have done for 17 years.
Today, we cleared a pathway beside the foundation of the house for people to walk on or for cars to pull to the side. This required 8 of us to pull at so many plants and hoe through a lot of dirt that was full of garbage. We had worship music playing and we got so much done and it looks completely different now! We swept, hoed, pulled up plants, threw away so much garbage, spread so much dirt, and it was all for the betterment of this one street because this one man wanted to make things easier on his neighbors. If that’s not something from the Lord I don’t know what is.
This man that is in charge of this place is so resourceful and sustainable. He loves the Lord so well and loves the people that live there like they are his own family. I wouldn’t mind living here. He has added on to this building to create a guest house (basically a hostel) and he has made his own bricks, used cardboard for insulation, used mud plaster for the walls, used car tires as window holes and tree stumps to build part of the wall. This entire place is a small glimpse of heaven in my eyes.
What really got me was that these disabled people that live here are loved so well. I don’t understand the whole system of rejecting someone because they aren’t capable of the same things you are. The Lord can still use them and they are still just as valuable as anyone whose mind or body functions properly. The Lord still sees them and loves them because he created them in His image.
Tomorrow we plan on having a prayer night and we are going to stay there and make them an American meal. We will get to pray in the prayer tower whether it’s for the churches of Nepal or just the country as a whole. Each person usually will spend two hours in the prayer tower and read scripture talk to the Lord about a specific topic.
This place is truly amazing and the Lord shines through each of the people staying there.
Please be praying for us as we continue to serve this ministry this week!
