Training camp.
Wow…
God has just been SO, SO good.
I feel like…usually, saying that has a tendency of coming off as overly spiritual. But with training camp…He really, really has just been that good.
From June 4 through June 14th, I was in Gainesville, Georgia at the HQ of Adventures in Missions for missions training. For the ten days, slumped it out in a tent along with other assorted basic ways of acquiring slumber, relied on bucket showers, and amidst all of that, have experienced a paradigm shift in what God’s love does to community life.
The good creator and intricate arranger had shown up in so many sweet ways during the ten days of doing life together with my World Race squad fam. God’s way of doing things, the “Kingdom way”, is really such a beautiful thing. Prior to coming to camp, I could conceptualize this term, understand “doing something in a Kingdom way” as something that was vaguely Jesus focused, for spreading the gospel and love. But really experiencing it in intentional community was really something else. I saw brothers and sisters doing things the “Kingdom Way,” operating with servant hearts and uplifting each other in one another’s weaknesses. We were running around with dirty feet, being sustained by mere precious bucket showers, and yet there was such love among our squad. I saw squad mates buy popsicles for each other, give up seats for one another, literally carry each other’s burdens, pray for one another, volunteer to take on the most trying of clean up tasks, and even in one moving though not to be encouraged instance, share deodorant!
Training camp to me was definitely seeing God’s love manifest in abundance through so many acts of service among squad members even as we were in our vulnerability and a state of being out of element. I truly feel privileged and honored to be a part of my World Race squad. I see myself being able to learn A LOT from my family in Christ as we go out into the nations.
“For even my weakness is strong” – “Not Afraid” Mosaic MSC
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