Sunday, Oct 10, 2010

Sunday, Oct 10, 2010

Unplugging from the Digital World

As I awoke in the morning darkness, and listened to the profound silence, I realized that I was beginning to brush away the trappings of the digital, plugged in world we live in day to day; and I found it liberating!! My work and thoughts of such continue to invade my thoughts, but I believe these musings are fading.

We began the day very early as Belize is two hours behind Eastern time. Most of us were up at 4:30, so the coffee was on and we continued getting to know each other.

We attended church this morning in Jacintoville and were truly blessed by great praise and worship. The team left the main service after worship and joined the children in another building. We had a great time interacting with the kids and we presented our skit on the story of David and Goliath (available on DVD for $4.95 plus S&H)

Then it was back to the house for lunch and preparing for travel to Blue Creek recreational area.

We had a truly remarkable adventure at Blue Creek, culminating in a journey upstream into a cave. It was like something at Disney World, except this was the real deal…complete with bats flying around!! I was sincerely impressed with the adventuresome spirit of the ladies of the group as this was not an easy hike and it was a little daunting going into the cave.

LOL has four or five interns here with them; mostly early 20-somethings who are earnestly seeking what God has for them. This is one of the key facets of what LOL is.

Jervis and Melissa welcome individuals as interns who are thinking missions is for them. Belize is an excellent place to “test the mission waters”. There is definitely the reality of the missions field here, but there is no language barrier as the Belizeans speak English. The missions experience is extremely challenging and coming to a ministry like LOL is an excellent starting point for anyone thinking they may want to really get involved in missions. I’d recommend that anyone reading this talk to members of this team about our experience.

We enjoyed an evening meal prepared by Melissa (she loves cooking for missions team!). Then, the team sat down with Jervis to debrief the day. He asked us the high and low point for each of our days. Then, he shared his testimony with us. Jervis’ testimony is his, but suffice to say, God has a calling and a purpose on this man’s life and the life of his wife Melissa!! God has snatched him from the jaws, the very gates of hell!