Australia is as beautiful as it sounds. The first day our team arrived we frolicked through the grass laughing about the fabulous weather and the fact that we were not instantly sweating (as was the case every moment in Malaysia).
This month we are working with Youth With A Mission in Perth. The YWAM base is one of the biggest in the world. There are currently over 300 on staff and a fresh batch of students just arrived for the october Discipleship Training School. We are serving the staff and students here in anyway possible. We have cleaned out warehouses, chopped vegetables, scrubbed toilets and taken out rubbish.
YWAM hosts many ministries that we have gotten to volunteer with as well. We have a busy schedule everyday and are just trying to keep up.
In the evenings our team usually goes to a park near by that serves food to the homeless and needy. This is my favorite part of each day. There are so many people here that just want a warm meal and someone to chat with. I have been blessed to pray with a few people that have shared their hearts with me.
A fellow racer passed these words of wisdom on to me and I have found myself looking over them constantly. I think I could apply it to every area of my life. Thought you might enjoy it….
Surrender your idea of what ministry is and should look like right away. On the World Race, you could be doing an unbelievably long list of random tasks at any given point, and your job is not to judge whether or not it is worthy of your time. Believe that you have been commissioned by God and entrusted to do whatever He puts in front of you with a smile on your face, and constantly remind yourself that a sense of emotional, personal satisfaction in your work is actually completely irrelevant. We are not called to feel good about our “final product” at the end of the month in any country; we are called to be faithful and obedient to being the piece He asked us to be in His bigger picture.
Peace & Blessins
KC
