Passionate Homemaking

I rejoice at the good work the Lord accom­plished through us this past week! Praise the Lord for all that He has done! I am so thank­ful for the friend­ships made, the min­istries we served, and the team that came together to do it. To hear one of our daily reports read here.

Look­ing back over this past week and our local ser­vice here in our city, the Lord really impressed me with a few lessons:

There are so many needs in our backyard!

I am amazed how easily deceived I have been into think­ing that fron­tier mis­sions is where we need to send the labor­ers. The Great Com­mis­sion is a call for one and all to go forth and share the love of the Christ. Not all are called to a for­eign field, but all are called to serve where you are. The gospel can be so clearly com­mu­ni­cated through the demon­stra­tion of Christ’s love in ser­vice. Serv­ing others opens the doors for the gospel! There were widows that needed the love of Christ and why not demon­strate and com­mu­ni­cate it through clean­ing their back­yards? There were home­less men and women whose hearts were touched and more recep­tive to the gospel because we gave them a pair of flipflops! How simple is that?

Families serving together is a powerful witness to the world - including the little ones!

The family model in our day and age is dis­in­te­grat­ing. We need the wit­ness of fam­i­lies (small and large, father, mother & chil­dren) out there serv­ing and show­ing others a pic­ture of godly fam­i­lies. I was blessed by how the Lord impacted two of my younger siblings  (Bran­don & Brooke, age 10), through­out the week. In our debrief­ing gath­er­ing on Sat­ur­day evening, you could see how their hearts were pow­er­fully touched by serv­ing others. They opened up in prayer sev­eral times for those we met, and they shared how they had such a fun time serv­ing others as a family. They had worked really hard through­out the week.

One of the days, a gen­tle­man that was head­ing up the project, Chuck, was so impressed by Brandon’s dili­gence, he com­mented, “He gets two stars, he is such a hard worker”. That is a tes­ti­mony! Why leave the chil­dren behind? This is an oppor­tu­nity to serve together and implant seeds of com­pas­sion in their hearts as they see the needs around them. IT was beau­ti­ful to behold! Young Anna, age 3, joined our team for four of the six days along with her mother and broth­ers. She worked hard, and although she may not been able to accom­plish much, she was serv­ing together with her family and learn­ing much about work­ing, serv­ing, and loving others I am sure.

Don’t waste your life

After wit­ness­ing the needs in my com­mu­nity, and real­iz­ing the great love that Christ has poured out for me, I was filled with a renewed pas­sion to want noth­ing else but Jesus and Him alone! Noth­ing else mat­ters eternally- the pur­suit of mate­ri­al­ism, money, a nice home, com­fort in this life - oh that all these temp­ta­tions the world presents us would fall away from my view! I want Jesus and I want to serve Him along­side my hus­band and chil­dren in com­plete aban­don for the build­ing up of Christ’s King­dom! From this moment, I am able to see that I have no excuse. Whether I have one or ten chil­dren, we can serve together in the cause of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

For a pow­er­ful call in this direc­tion, read Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper & Min­istries of Mercy by Tim Keller.

We are eagerly look­ing for­ward to fur­ther ser­vice in our com­mu­nity! We desire for this not to happen just once a year, but on a reg­u­lar basis! We are going forth from here with eyes opened to see the needs. Where can we serve others and share the love of Christ today, tomor­row and for the rest of our lives?