Author: Adventures

Ministry is more than a few hours a dayIt is more than teaching 7th grade between the hours of 9 and 12.So much more than playing soccer from 3:30 to 5:30.Ministry is buying new pens when yours are taken and followed by the words “thank you. We really needed new pens.”It is playing Simon Says with the kids outside my gated home. It is kicking a soccer ball with our ministry host at home when real ministry gets rained out.It is buying new shoes when his old ones break in the rain. Ministry is more than a few hours a day, ministry is a lifestyle

I start every morning and end every day praising God. I never had done that before, but when I truly think about it, I should be praising Him continuously. He is the reason air escapes my lungs, the reason for the endless rain hitting the metal roof of our concrete Zambian home, the reason for the laughs of children through the chain-linked fence, or the way my teams’ faces light up when they can tell another being about the love of Jesus, and what He did for us.   As I awoke this morning, I escaped my mosquito net and took a deep breath. I smell the sweet scent of rain, thanking...

Ministry is more than a few hours a dayIt is more than teaching 7th grade between the hours of 9 and 12.So much more than playing soccer from 3:30 to 5:30.Ministry is buying new pens when yours are taken and followed by the words “thank you. We really needed new pens.”It is playing Simon Says with the kids outside my gated home. It is kicking a soccer ball with our ministry host at home when real ministry gets rained out.It is buying new shoes when his old ones break in the rain. Ministry is more than a few hours a day, ministry is a lifestyle