I am a Retreat

 
No, that’s what I meant. You heard me right.
 
I am a retreat.
 
Not I am on a retreat. I am a retreat.
 
Confused? Let me explain. Month to month it’s very easy for all of us on world race to start wondering how much of an impact we have in the ministries that we take part in when we are only here a month. That question gets even more into our face when we have month that we find ourselves with our hands messy from several ministries in the area and not just one. It’s not unusual to do some work for a ministry one day in a month, and not see those people that we began to build relationship with the rest of the month. When we work with kids we can easily start fearing that the constant coming and going of our World Race teams month to month creates an unhealthy instability for the kids.
But I have to keep reminding myself that G-ds work does not run dry and “he works all together for His good” (Rom 8:28).
I was talking this over with one of my squad mates Alicia and that’s when it hit me. I am a retreat.
Remember those church retreats you went on as kid? Or maybe you still go on some sort of 3-day retreat with your church even now. Do you remember summer camp? Can you recall some of the things that the Lord taught you in that small amount of time? The people that spoke into your life and changed you forever by a only one little conversation or a short message? That’s all it took, it didn’t take much time, sometimes it didn’t even take that much effort but it changed your life. Those little retreats make an impact.
And it was thinking about those moments in my life that I had a revelation. These children, the people that we minister to can’t afford a retreat. They can’t go on a retreat, so we bring the retreat to them. We are someone’s retreat.
 
I am a retreat.