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What is it to serve? I (Erin) have been thinking a lot about this question in the last few days. I’ve been temporarily sidelined with a reoccurance of some blistering on my feet that happened during our 2009 trip. (Don’t worry Mom I’m taking care of them). Anyway, I’m heeding Jude’s (she’s a nurse) advice and taking time during the day to elevate my foot and stay off it so it can heal. What this means however is a lot of time I wanted to be doing something and I can’t. So I’ve been thinking of all the things we’ve been doing. We’ve helped lead assembly. Led game show and performed a skit on hygiene. We’ve helped with crafts and memory verse. We’ve thrown balls and played tag. We’ve helped counselors with “crowd control”. We’ve washed hands and feet. We’ve shared messages from the Word. We’ve laid hands and prayed.
And God is showing me that if we are submitted to Him, it’s all serving Him. And now that I’m restricted in my doing, it leaves me with a lot of time to pray. But I’m restless. Why would God bring me to the other side of the world to just sit? Why can’t I just do? A little voice in my head says, couldn’t you have just prayed from home? It’s then I realized, sure I could pray at home but I wouldn’t. Not like I can here, at home I have a 1000 things to do. Here I can look into the faces of these precious children and pray. Pray that they would know their heavenly Father who loves them so much. Pray that they recognize that they are unique creations, individually and specifically created for a plan and a purpose. Pray that their hearts and minds might be freed from past hurts and that they would embrace the never ending supply of love from their heavenly Father.
So join us as we serve the children here in the Philippines, because no matter what side of the world your on. We can all pray.
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