Week Seven

Stolen from www.erinsummerlin.blogspot.com:

So as an attempt to keep my promise of more meaningful posts, I have a lovely Friday night here at the base in Muizenberg that is SO boring, that it might be the longest most meaningful post in the history of blogging. :)

It's been yet another week here in South Africa. I'm sure you all know by now that our schedules are basically the same each week, give or take 10 minutes here or there for us to wait on our lovely guys (jk I love you Minsoo and Mikkel), but our biggest struggle here lately has been to fight the monotony. We have had some issues with worrying that our team is too 'humanitarian' (working at orphanage, doing human trafficking awareness, etc.) and not enough "God" (street evangelism, door to door ministry, all the things that scare the mess out of us!) : ) We have this motto that we don't want to be 'weird', because after all Jesus wasn't. He might have made some folks angry from time to time, but he certainly wasn't outright strange and creepy about it.

In the midst of this battle, we really have had a good week, and are remembering that the most important part of this trip is to see more Jesus in the world; to see this place look more like heaven. It's also so important for us to remember that while we are doing his work here, he still is here too and is at work even when we are not. It's hard to not have the common missionary discouraging thoughts of overwhelming feelings; the world's so bad off how much are we really helping?; they go on for days...but I'm learning (and will have to continue learning) I'm not Superman, and I'm certainly not Jesus alone. We are to be a body and help each other out for the betterment of every situation.

It's little tokens of revelation like these that I'm thankful for. While there might not be a crazy healing story, or somebody getting 'saved' to our knowledge, it doesn't matter. God is good no matter our circumstances, and we just have to rest in that.

At this point, we have 3 more weeks of ministry. With that being said, I know our team is so expectant of everything we know God can do, and are excited to see what he has in store for us in those 15 days. In the meanwhile, we will keep on keeping on, and as our leader always reminds us, we will 'dream big', because God's dreaming even bigger.