Doing ministry from the boots up.
You haven’t been to Nepal if you haven’t trekked at least a little bit, and I feel like we did a lot of trekking, even if it wasn’t always up mountains.
To start our month, we did a short hike up to a Buddhist temple on a hill, and we worshipped on that hill and wrote prophetic words for the country on rocks and left them there. The next day, we hiked to the tallest peak in Kathmandu, and it took all day to hike to the top and back, I had hiked before, but this hike kicked my butt! I made it up and back, but I was exhausted by the end.
From there, we basically trekked to our ministry every day. We walked about 40 minutes across Kathmandu to get to the house where we would tutor some kids, then walk from there to a women’s center to teach English, and then in the afternoon we would take a bus (praise the Lord!) to the slums of the city to do VBS with the kids there. By the end of each day we were always exhausted, and some days we would end by playing soccer or futsal either with street kids or with our ministry host and his sons.
Nepal was a very active month, but I learned a lot about what it looks like to be a follower of Christ, and that means walking to the ends of the earth (sometimes literally!) to do his work.
In the beginning of the month, we had some time of fellowship with our host, and he told us some of his testimony, and the part that stuck out was his commission to do ministry. He said he heard the voice of God say “You must serve me from the boots up”, and that phrase really describes how we served the people of Nepal. Sometimes you are called to stay in one place and build relationships with people, and sometimes you’re called to walk with Jesus and serve different people along the way every day. It can be exhausting, and can take a toll on you physically, emotionally, and spiritually, but you’re just gotta keep walking and trust that God will give you the strength to keep going.
We only had about two weeks in Nepal, but there was never a dull moment while we were there. We worked from the boots up the whole time we were there, and I think we made an impact with the short time we were there.
