Last night at dinner I told my nine-year-old that I had some questions for him. I asked "What is the first book in the Bible?" He thought for a moment, then said positively "Guiness!" It sounds like a joke but this is a true story.
Then I asked "Who were the first man and woman?" This was harder. Still, he came up with an answer..."Mary!!"
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Vietnam and Agent Orange
Last week the General Board of Global Ministries was here and hosted the first ever "Mission Initiatives Summit" in Plano, TX. Since I couldn't go to all the breakout sessions, I asked a friend to go to the session on Vietnam.
This friend listened to our UMC missionary to Vietnam talking about Agent Orange and all the disabled persons that are a result of that poison. As the missionary described the difficulties of the disabled persons in their ministry, my friend realized that her twenty years of experience as a Special Education teacher and her work on the conference Disability Concerns task force can help this missionary immensely.
Now she wants to engage in "Risk taking Missions" herself and go to Vietnam! While she was telling me this, another friend who is the VIM coordinator for Louisiana came up and mentioned that he is taking a team to Vietnam in 2009, and that she can join that team. I am excited to see how this all comes about.... but to me this is WOW!!!
This friend listened to our UMC missionary to Vietnam talking about Agent Orange and all the disabled persons that are a result of that poison. As the missionary described the difficulties of the disabled persons in their ministry, my friend realized that her twenty years of experience as a Special Education teacher and her work on the conference Disability Concerns task force can help this missionary immensely.
Now she wants to engage in "Risk taking Missions" herself and go to Vietnam! While she was telling me this, another friend who is the VIM coordinator for Louisiana came up and mentioned that he is taking a team to Vietnam in 2009, and that she can join that team. I am excited to see how this all comes about.... but to me this is WOW!!!
It's important
I wanted to start this blog as a place to write down all those moments that give me chills...the moments when you think to yourself "my job is great" or "this is why I'm in the ministry" or just "thank you God!"
Recently I was asked to make a list of the greatest accomplishments of the past year, and I realized that the real greatest moments for me are not the huge life-changing kind that you just remember forever.
Plus I heard that it's more important to remember the "output" moments, where you recognize that your ministry has made a difference, rather than remembering the projects and events where you put in the most effort or "input". That's when I realized my list of accomplishments contained projects that I'd spent a lot of time on but weren't really the "aha" moments.
So this is my effort to record those times.
Recently I was asked to make a list of the greatest accomplishments of the past year, and I realized that the real greatest moments for me are not the huge life-changing kind that you just remember forever.
Plus I heard that it's more important to remember the "output" moments, where you recognize that your ministry has made a difference, rather than remembering the projects and events where you put in the most effort or "input". That's when I realized my list of accomplishments contained projects that I'd spent a lot of time on but weren't really the "aha" moments.
So this is my effort to record those times.
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