Last week, a team of 14 people from The Well went on a mission trip to Andros Island in the Bahamas. We stayed in a small town called Stanyard Creek… Actually, we stayed right here. In this house. We did plumbing work, yard work, roof repair on 3 homes and taught VBS for the neighborhood kids everyday at 3pm. Too much happened to really summarize in one post what God did for us and the people He connected to us in our time there, so I’m going to add a section to the blog that kind of summarizes each day. There are tons of pictures to look at here and I have about 6 hours of video footage I need to sort through and get posted to the web.
Real quick though, it was my first mission trip. I feel bad that I never went on one sooner. I’ve wasted a lot of time in my life on stupid stuff and I wish I could go back and force my 18 year-old self to go on a foreign mission trip away from the comforts of the United States. If you’re considering going on a mission trip, but money is your issue, then you don’t have an issue. I didn’t have the money either. None of the 14 people that went had the money, but God made it happen. Letters, fund raisers, hosting parent’s night outs, garage sales, etc. Quit making excuses and get uncomfortable in some area of your life for God. If you physically can’t go, support someone that can. Your support is just as important as being there in person.
“But we’ve got people here…..”
Yep and God is bigger than the tiny man-made borders and lines on a map we’ve layed on His creation. That whole Great Commission thing seems like all the justification anyone would need in being faithful to God and traveling on mission to Andros Island, or Peru, or Mexico, or Arizona, or Russia, or Cartersville, Georgia.
I don’t know when I’ll get to go again, but I look forward to the mission trips that I get to take with my wife and the ones I get to take with my kids when they are 13.
