Team Radiance spent January in Auckland, in the town called Mangere. We had the opportunity to truly learn what it is to serve. Though sometimes a little hard to swallow, this is what the Doctor had prescribed for our spiritual health this month. Cleaning kitchens, floors, tables, windows, vacuuming, making literally 100 beds (some more than once), scrubbing chairs, etc. This is how God used my team this month. 
This month in Auckland there are many conferences taking place. Some here at the YWAM base at which we are staying, some in other towns. Our base, being the closest to the airport, also had the task of picking up people flying in for these conferences. There’s nothing as interesting as a midnight run to pick up a family from Papua New Guinea, or some teenagers from Fiji. I got to spend an entire afternoon at the airport one day welcoming groups from Vanuatu, Fiji, and New Caledonia. That was over 80 people. I had the opportunity to meet and speak with so many great men and women of God from so many cultures and backgrounds. Each one so kind and there were always smiles and songs being sung.
While cleaning, making beds, and driving people around may not seem like the most glamorous of things one does on a mission trip, our ministry was to serve the staff of this YWAM/King’s Kids base. To be able to be on call at any time for whatever needed to be done was what our host needed to be able to carry out the work being done here. When we leave the staff will remain here building and continuing their relationships with the people of this community (Acts 20:25). Our being here meant that they got to go to these conferences and do just that. So while it may not seem like much, let us not forget that God has called us to be servants; to do what is asked of us. However big or small the task may appear to us, we only see a small glimpse of God’s plan…so who are we to question why He has us here at Such a Time as This.
