First. Update: I have by God’s provision and your support I have passed my next goal!!! Thank you so, so much!
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Bolivia has been a wonderful, beautiful place!
We are currently serving at a camp as a grounds crew. Our contact is one of the sweetest men I’ve ever met. His name is Hermano Lucho and though he only speaks little English he understands much.
The work, again, is different from week to week
Last week the whole week was spent in the beautiful river that is right by the camp. Hermano Lucho needed largish rocks to make paths. Some of us were rock finders and the rest made an assembly line to pass the rocks. It was a great time of conversations and fun.
Vashti and I decided to go river riding after one day of working. Someone later made a comment that being in the river is so different from being on the fringes of it. That is the truth!
We have a song on the World Race-
Take me out to the middle of the River, I wanna drown in the good ol’ River of Your love.
This month has been such a beautiful illustration of this song. I came into ministry a little dry. A dry stream, longing for my Father’s waters. I actually had to leave ministry early one morning because my attitude was not right. It was during that time that God told me that I had been going through the motions of seeking Him, but I hadn’t fully submerged in Him. The healing of that realization was profound! From that moment on the rest of our time has been wonderful. I’m still working on going deeper into His River, but I’ve taken the first steps from the shore.
This past week we have done rock laying, aka cobble-stoning. It has been quite fun piecing together all these different rocks from different places in the river. Now that I think about it, that is just what God has done with our team and squad. He has taken each of us from a different place and pieced us together. The hammering it takes can hurt, and there may be smashed fingers at times, but in the end His work is beautiful!
So what does a week look like in Bolivia? Work, Siesta, Work, Done for the day. It has been a lot of growing, resting, and laboring all in The Lord. Someone pointed out that though we are not evangelizing, we are serving Hermano Lucho and so reaching many generations to come. Our work will be a part of this camp for many years. That is a exciting thought. May God be glorified in it all!
Through Christ,
Brooke
PostScript- Please continue to pray for our squad. It is all squad month and being all together has had it’s ups and downs. Pray we would be open to each other and God’s leading. Also for team ROAR as we continue in this time of stretching and growing.
