So it was an interesting morning here in Ensenada. I felt a little disoriented in the morning really not sure what to expect as far as how things would go during the day which is unlike me to be worried about how things are going to go. I think it was great to start the day with time before God. I needed it badly. To quiet my life and let my Father bring peace and assurance into my life.
I started writing the above but since then I stopped to go into our evening de-briefing session. Rick, the short term missions director here in Ensenada told us that the house our team is building is of a family in the community that a local pastor is trying to reach out to. They aren't members of the local church which I found wild. This is totally an effort to reach out to a local families needs and hopefully evangelize to them. I'm totally excited to see how this week progresses with them and us as a team hopefully being Jesus to them and giving to them what we can.
It really comes back to something I've been talking about in the past few blogs. It's about having a missional mindset, it doesn't matter whether its here in Ensenada or in Morristown, NJ. Being Jesus to the local community is what it is all about. I think it's something that becomes over looked all too often. To be a missionary, to serve in a "Mission Field" doesn't mean you pack up and leave your surroundings and move to a foreign land. Quiet the contrary. The more I've been living in Morristown the more I'm seeing it as just another place that needs missionaries to go out into and bring the light of Jesus into the darkness. Just as we are doing it for a short time here, I'm doing it every day in different ways in New Jersey.
It requires a paradigm shift. Its a new way of thinking. We don't just live wherever we live, we are place there strategically by our Father to spread the light!
-AM
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