It is hard to believe that month one is already over. Serbia has been an incredible experience that I will always remember! I am sitting in a hostel in Belgrade, Serbia reflecting on all that we have experienced through the last three weeks here. It has been a whirl wind. Trying to decide what to share with you has been a little overwhelming, but I figure I’m just going to start and see where it ends up! 
We were blessed to have such an amazing group of people to serve along side this last month. They exemplify what it means to have a servant’s heart. They do everything with such a output of humbleness and joy. That remained a theme for me to follow the first couple weeks that we there at HUB. I was serving by assisting with a lot of what they called “practical things” aka. washing dishes, setting tables, and lots of cleaning. It was special to watch how even just little things like that made a difference in the lives of the people that we were serving.
The last camp that we worked changed things for me. We were blessed with the opportunity to have a large volunteer force of people from all over both Serbia and the US. On the day the volunteers arrived we were given our daily assignments for the week. I was only given on in the morning and couple small ones through out the rest of the day when needed. My first reaction was to question how I was going to be productive with so little assigned to me. Through conversations with God that night He gave me the answer. He told, “Sara, just because you are not doing an assigned task does not mean that you cannot be productive for my Kingdom!” I had no idea what that would look like, but I had an answer.
I have been passionate about meeting new people and getting listening to their stories for a very long time. I’m not entirely sure how it started, but I God led me to push into being more involved with the programs that week. I’m not sure how to explain how special the connections that I built with people that week are to me. I can say that they are ones that I want to work hard to maintain. This was how God answered my question. Through long conversations, spending time playing with kids, and connecting with His children was how I was being productive for His Kingdom.
This led to God teaching me another lesson. I don’t know how I had viewed my love and ease with conversations with people, especially people that I don’t know. I suppose that I always just felt like it was a part of who I am. This last couple weeks God has taught me that not only is it part of who He made me, but it is a gift that He has given me and that I need to use it to serve Him.
I look forward to taking all of this forward with me through the rest of my World Race and pushing into what God has for me.
