Friday, June 27, 2014

Good Morning! It is going to be a humid day today! Yesterday was our second day of the medical center in Agua Aguria. We left the hotel around 8:00 and got right to work when we arrived at the village. We saw a total of 350 people over the last two days. 350 people who probably have not seen a doctor since last year when we were here. I was also blessed to be able to wash the feet of the women who attended the womens Bible study yesterday. This is one of my favorite activities here because it makes me think about Jeses washing the feet of his disciples. Christ not only washed their feet but he washed the feet of the man he knew was going to betray him in the very near future. We also gave everyone a new pair of shoes after washing their feet, I wish you could have seen the smiles that would light up across their faces as this process was happening. 
While all of this was going on we also had a construction team. This team was fixing the playground and working on building the new classroom for the church building.
At VBS we discussed Jonah and the big fish. Each child got a picture to color and a Jonah and the fish cloths pin. Then we had our gosple meeting again, if you ever are wanting to hear some amazing singing where you can feel passion for God I would highly suggest coming here. The singing here brings so much joy to these people, even the children. I wish that I could see that passion in the church in the USA more.
At devo last night Wyatt spoke about how we need to be obedient no matter whzt the plan God has for us is and we should be content with it. We will not all be called to be a Noah, Moses, Paul, Etc. God does not always call his people to have some amazing story of His power. We need to be content in being obedient to Him and in being a background character in his story. Whichever character you are it is still important. Wyatt talked about Sauls conversion story, a story many of us know very well. The person remembered and talked about in that story is Saul/Paul. The person you do not hear much about is Ananias. Ananias was the man who went to Sauk as he was prsying to restore his sight. This act was something that Ananias was not sure he wanted to do because he has heard the stories of things Saul was doing to Christians. It would have been easy for him to say sorry God I have heard what he is doing and I do not want to put myself in danger. Ananias did not do that, he was obedient to what God comamded him to do, he was content being in the shadows of the story of Saul. Even as a background chara ter he was still a part of Saul becoming the great apostle Paul.

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