this past week i had the opportunity to take 8 students from our ministry to Juarez, MX to build a house with Casas por Cristo, an organization that builds houses for families who are in need.
i wish that i had enough space to recap all of the events and highlights of the trip, but i am afraid that would make for one really long post. but i did want to share a few thoughts from what was a really great trip.
i have spent the last couple of days reading posts by students on facebook....it has been great to read the things that God has been doing in these students lives as a result of the trip. i have heard students talking about how the people that we worked for and with helped them to think about what it would look like to live a much simpler life and about how they taught them so much about what love is really all about.
but here is my favorite reaction that i have heard from students...
they just said over and over again that these people had so much less than they did, and yet, they were just as happy, if not more happy, than we were. and that was truly revolutionary...that is awesome!
i have been thinking about how i often say that my goal in what i am doing is to mess people up for God in the best way imaginable, and i feel like that is exactly what i have had the opportunity to experience as a part of this trip. God is definitely working in and through these students, that is for sure!
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
A Whole New Perspective...
yesterday i met with a student who has been involved in our ministry all year, but who does not believe in Jesus. he is really searching and seeking and trying to figure things out, but he is not candid about the fact that right now he doesn't believe...
as we began to go through some questions (tough questions) that he has been kicking around lately, i came to realize that he has basically never read the Bible before. at one point, i asked him if he was familiar with the creation account in Genesis, and he said that he had never read it.
that was a real eye opener to me...
it is almost unbelievable to me that there would be a student, who is regularly attending our ministry, who has never read the creation story. it is a reminder to me that i must try to see past my limited perspective on things and that i must realize that there are a lot of people that see things very differently than what i do.
and yet, at the same time, it is very exciting...very exciting because i believe that i am going to have an opportunity to walk this guy through his first ever reading of a bunch of really cool stuff in the Bible. and i am super excited to see what thoughts, feelings, and emotions it brings up within him. so we will see...
but i hope and pray that both he and i are changed as a result of this process...
as we began to go through some questions (tough questions) that he has been kicking around lately, i came to realize that he has basically never read the Bible before. at one point, i asked him if he was familiar with the creation account in Genesis, and he said that he had never read it.
that was a real eye opener to me...
it is almost unbelievable to me that there would be a student, who is regularly attending our ministry, who has never read the creation story. it is a reminder to me that i must try to see past my limited perspective on things and that i must realize that there are a lot of people that see things very differently than what i do.
and yet, at the same time, it is very exciting...very exciting because i believe that i am going to have an opportunity to walk this guy through his first ever reading of a bunch of really cool stuff in the Bible. and i am super excited to see what thoughts, feelings, and emotions it brings up within him. so we will see...
but i hope and pray that both he and i are changed as a result of this process...
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