One thing my team is learning in India
is to pay attention to “the one”. Many
times on the Race I have thought that hundred’s of people have to come to know
Christ and that crazy miracles have to happen…I just wrote a blog about that
last month in Tanzania in fact.
Since we are doing ATL (Ask the Lord) this month, it has
been up to us to come up with ministry. It has been a struggle at points of the month because we have had to
define in our own heads and hearts “what is ministry”? I know I have come to understand that
ministry can be about the multitudes but it can also be about the one. We have met so many people this month just by
walking around the city or wondering from store to store.
In particular, we have made friends with one store
owner. He is a Hindu man who has this
personality that makes people gravitate toward him. We go and visit him at his store and just sit
and talk. We learn about his life and
what he hopes to become. One of our
desires is to be different. To show him
that we are different from the other backpackers who come through his
store. This man could change this area
of Calcutta, we are just praying he
changes this area for Jesus. That he
comes to have a radical encounter with God and in turn shows other people the
love and grace he has found in Jesus.
I don’t know if he is “the one” that God has called us
to. It may be different things for
different people. For Katie, it could be
the one child at the orphanage that we are working at. For Bekah, it could be sitting outside of our
hostel and talking to random backpackers. That is the beauty of this month and of ATL. We don’t know what God is calling us to or
who He is calling us to speak to because everyday is different. Everyday we listen to hear God’s voice and obey
what He is telling us to do in that moment.
