Have you ever wondered what it would look like to desperately need rain?
For the soil underneath your feet to yearn to kiss the wet droplets from heaven above. I’m not a farmer, although from 6th grade science class I have learned how important rain is for our ecosystem. Rain allows people to drink, allows wells to fill, animals to have life, plants to grow. I have started to learn the importance rain plays for so many communities around the world. I never really felt gratitude when the heavens would open up and an earthly shower would take place. Many months on the race our hosts would request prayers specifically for rain. In Swaziland several of our teams would fiercely pray for rain to come into our little village of Nsoko, and then we were greeted with a beautiful thunderstorm and a small drizzle. This rain was desperately needed by the community–the previous year thousands of livestock ceased due to the lack of rain.
This month we are in Calama, Chile, smack dab in the Atacama Desert–the 2nd largest desert in the world. We were told that several parts of this desert have never seen rain. The last rain fall in Calama was a year ago, so similar to how Nashville shuts down at the first snowflake, Calama shuts down for the rain. School was canceled, and reports of Andes mountain snows were all over their local news. This month 90% of our ministry has been done at the local school teaching English (which I may add has been a blast). My host sister Valentina has never seen snow, so Pastor Marcos aka “Pastor Hipster” recruited his church buds with 4X4 trucks to bring us for one heck of an epic snow ball fight. Rain or snow- the Lord is faithful in answering prayers.
