Sunday, June 9, 2013

The How

Every morning at 9am we divide up to have a discipleship time.  The ladies of the house go to the pavilion, and Brittany leads them in a study of English and the Bible.  She started in Genesis with them, and they are enjoying it.  The men of the house meet in the living room.  We share what God is telling us through His Word, then we pray together and then talk about the logistics of the day and week. 

In the men’s meeting we have had some great discussions over the last week on how to not only do more ministry, but do what God calls us to and how to do it.  We are teaching classes five days a week for 2 hours per day, but we have time for more.  The question is not what to do but HOW do we go about doing it.  Last Saturday through Monday, 3 men from our church in Smyrna were here to checkout Haiti: Peyton, Pat and Scott.  These men had some great insights into our ministry which led us as a house to have some great discussions this week.  In Haiti it is very easy to see need and opportunities for ministry. The difficult part is figuring out the How question.  How can we serve this group of people or that group of people?  God has opened our eyes to many needs here in Haiti. We are now praying for God to give us direction on how to minister to those groups of people. We want to build disciples in everything we do.  To build a disciple requires many things.  Jesus built his disciples by doing a few things: he taught them the scriptures, did life with them to provide them an example, he built a relationship with them over a long period of time and then, finally, he sent them out to do the same.  Jesus is our manual for building disciples.  We want to make disciples just like He did.  How to do that is always where we need God’s wisdom and guidance.  As we develop more ministries we are going to make sure they are being taught the Word of God, that we are an example to them by doing life with them, that we develop a relationship with them over a long period of time and finally, that we empower them to go out and make their own disciples.  I am reading through Ephesians right now, and I read Ch. 4 Friday morning.  Versus 11-13 stood out to me:

            “It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God’s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.”

If we tried to do ministry here individually it would be very difficult and probably unsuccessful.  I am thankful to God that he gave us a body of believers who can sharpen each other to make the team more impactful for God.  We are learning a lot from each other and I believe God is about to do some great things with our ministry.  I thank God for the people in this house.  We are all a little different but combined I believe we are a strong ministry for God. 

Please pray for us that we will not chase every ministry opportunity in Haiti but will only seek after the ones God wants us to and that he will show us HOW to do it.  We are nothing without His power and direction.  We want more of you God and less of us. 
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  1. Emilio FernandezJune 21, 2013 at 7:28 PM

    Good morning, how are you?

    My name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.

    I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of used stamps because trough them, you can see pictures about fauna, flora, monuments, landscapes etc. from all the countries. As every day is more and more difficult to get stamps, some years ago I started a new collection in order to get traditional letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately, it is impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are very small countries with very few population, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.

    For all this, I would ask you one small favor:
    Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Haiti? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Haiti in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and an original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:

    Emilio Fernandez Esteban
    Avenida Juan de la Cierva, 44
    28902 Getafe (Madrid)
    Spain

    If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.

    Finally, I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.

    Yours Sincerely

    Emilio Fernandez

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