Working at rhe villages

This past week was a lot of fun as we got the opportunity to join one of the other teams in their ministry in the villages. Each day they go to a different village to teach English to the kids and to share the Gospel. In some of the villages they have some bible studies with the older men and women.

I was able to go to one of these bible studies, unfortunately only a couple people showed and we couldn’t host the whole thing. However we got to share our testimonies with the few that came. Only one of the women there was a believer and we were told she really loves to hears people’s testimonies because it gives her hope. She is really the only believer in her village but Christ has changed her life. Hearing our stories and how God has working in our lives encourages her and reminds her God is working.

This experience made me think deeper about what the Church is. Here is a women who isn’t physically capable of going to church, is the only believer in her village, longing for community and to hear other people’s testimonies. So what is the church then? The church isn’t the place or the doctrine or the structure (dont get me wrong all of these things are important according to scripture), church is the body of Christ. It is people, unified in christ, up lifting one another, sharing testimonies, song, worship, revelation, scripture, hope, life, sacrificing for one another, showing abundant love. That what the church at the root is. When all the doctrine and structure is stripped away do we still have the Christ like community. It’s beautiful in a sense because this is all that woman has, from outside people, and it brings her joy and hope and reminds her of who Jesus is.

The goal in these village communities is to build them up to the point where they have that Church in the village and doesn’t rely on people coming in and out to be it. Please be praying for more and more of the people in these villages to come to christ do the kingdom may grow in this way!