Through God ordained contacts and appointments, we showed up in a Bulgarian village …to meet the mayor and help build a park. It wasn’t through a church…or done with a hidden agenda…but simply because the opportunity had presented itself…as a place to serve…outside ordinary.
But outside ordinary…landed us inside headlines.
As the holes were dug…and trees were planted…people came. Out of their homes…into the streets…peaking from their windows…
Whispers…
Inquiries…
Commotion…
We kept planting.
“They don’t understand why you would do this — why you would travel around the world to help others — why you would build their park, when they don‘t even help build it themselves.”
And as I’m riding on a donkey-led wagon full of shrubs…through the village streets and townsfolk…drawing the attention of a parade…I was over swept by the revelation…”This is a small glimpse of what it must have been like when Jesus entered a town…crowds followed.”
Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lake, and a large crowd from Galilee followed. When they heard all he was doing, many people came to him from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, and the regions across the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon. Because of the crowd he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him, to keep the people from crowding him. For he had healed many, so that those with diseases were pushing forward to touch him. Mark 3:7-10
Video compliments of Ashlee…
