All the small things

 

God loves us in many different ways. Sometimes it is as big as receive complete healing or financial provision; sometimes it is as little as someone’s smile or hug. I wrote this post to count all the blessings and how God loves big in small ways. I apologize that my writing may not be well structured in this post but here it is.

God’s love is shown when:

 

1. My team read the scriptures of love in the Bible.

2. The Carroll’s gave us a list of contacts so we can have places to serve.

3. God led us to two non-profit organizations: BFR Click here (Best Family Rwanda) and HTH Click here (Hope on a Thousand Hills).

4. The way that all BFR staffs gave their best effort to serve the children and their families.

5. Every BFR staffs made us to feel like a part of their team when they already have a lot of works to do everyday.

6. They drove us over and over again so we didn’t need to worry about transportation.

7. Groups of children came to hug us didn’t want to let us go.

8. Tayrn and Matt (my teammates) decided to sponsor few of the children from BFR and took them to a park.

9. Tayrn took some of the kids to get HIV tested.

10. Jean Claude (Director of BFR) gave me an opportunity to see what a true servant looks like and always made us laugh.

11. They bought us lunch.

12. People put others’ needs first and didn’t ask anything in return.

13. We met with the women sewing group of BFR and saw how they worked.

14. Liz (my teammate) sent out emails with each of our skills so the organizations can put us in the best serving positions possible.

15. God used me (technical), Wanzie (writing) and Liz (photography) to redesign the website for HTH.

16. Liz spent all those hours on taking and editing photos for the 2 organizations and our hosts.

17. Wanzie took the time to interview HTH staff and rewrote the material on the website.

18. I saw how much effort the staff puts in everyday.

19. We were taken to the school on the mountain and witnessed how 100+ kids were taught by only 2 teachers.

20. We were taken to the farms and saw how agriculture improved people’s lives.

21. Everyone in my team took care and built each other up.

22. Each of us sharing a word from the Lord everyday.

23. Few of them sat down in a jewelry store and spent hours to talk to Abraham (the owner).

24. Walter (teammate) went out of his way to buy the material to fix a light in the Gilley’s house.

25. Matt bought small gifts for the ladies on valentine’s day.

26. Dakota (squadmate) wrote letters to everyone in my team.

27. Walter came rescue me when I almost drown in the lake.

28. My team constantly gave me compliments on how well I did on the website.

29. My team prayed and encouraged me before the Sunday I led worship in church.

30. The manager of a supermarket bought me and Walter food and got to know our stories.

31. Eugene (coffee shop owner) gave me a free coffee and treated me like his friend.

32. Our hosts treated us as if we are their families.

33. My team cooked for me.

34. God provided a taxi when we needed it late at night.

35. Tayrn planned and organized our travels and budgets.

36. The locals taught me their language.

37. We had no idea where to do ministry and God orchestrated it perfectly for each of us.

38. Brandon Walsh (Managing director of HTH) preached about the importance of loving our enemies.

39. Every single small act of kindness I received in month 2.

40. My mom helped me to maintain my mess back at home.

 

God uses small things to make a big impact. Small acts with great love can change someone’s life. Perhaps you may feel unappreciated because no one notice all the little hard works you have done, but I promise you that God knows and He will reward you. Love small in a big way today.“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.” Luke 16:10