WMW: Assignment

This was an assignment for my Biblical Misson class and I thought I would post it. There is so more to say about this weekend.

"I cannot choose just one class to talk about my dwelling in the world so my context is Saturday of the World Mission Workshop or mostly God showing me his plan. Background Friday of this story is as people from WMW came through to the caf they would pass by the Wishing Well booth. There was a guy that asked where we drilling, I told him mostly Rwanda. His reply was what about Kenya if he already had a drill as he walked into the caf. Back to Saturday morning, the first class I attended was the Woman in missions. I learned that for a woman most of the mission was to be a sacrifice. The woman said one of my favorite things that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words even with children’. This touched me for I have felt compelled by children that where my mission lies.

After that class I was headed to Spiritual growth in mission however end up in the South African class instead. After I attended that class I went to the Christian Relief Foundation and the guy from Friday, Bobby Moore was sitting at the booth. We got to talking and I heard God giving me a solution to my second journal about Wishing Well. Bobby told that one man had given 100,000 dollars to fund half of twenty Wells and all they had to do was find orginaztions to raise the money. This was the goal that I had been waiting on for Wishing Well. He gave me his card and two information sheet about CRF: one was hope for water and the other was about different mission trips they have planning to go. My mind was racing as I was hearing and seeing the work of God. God is a God of chances, he is an encourage and loves using the shy to work his way up. During the 11 am Keynote I could not sit still my mind was racing. I was spazzing out; surrounding me was my two dear friends, Dottie and Mike, that I made last year at the GME.

I thought of specific ideas to start raising money for the cause that would line up to God plan. As I contuined to think about it I realized what God was mainly saying, the job for me in this plan. He was telling me to step up and become the director of Wishing Well the OC chapter or at least one of them. I hate being in front of people. One friend compared me to Moses which is very true, I don’t like going in front of someone and being in charge.  This became clear to me during the rest of the day. When I went to the last class on dispora and listening to what the students from African countries work and send some of the money back home for their families. I revisited the  CRF booth and talked to him once more and he gave me a city that I could research, that would be our city to make a well and a shirt for free. I had asked him if in the trip to Kenya I would get to see the well being made or done.

My cousin is Ryan Groves the Wishing Well guy. He had told me to meet his friend Phoenix. When I met Phoenix he wanted to hear about me as I walked him to the bus for feed the children. He also invited me to dinner with the Pepperdine crew and the ACU recruiter. Later that night as I was riding in the van on the way to dinner I mentioned how I didn’t want to take over…but I felt like that is what God was telling me to do.  Phoenix said, I should do it because I shouldn’t tell God no. Jessi added in that I might get swallowed by a whale. That made me smile. I guess I have to be like Moses and find my Aaron so I can follow God’s will in this context. Wishing Well has always been tied to my heart since I heard about it and saw the picture of the boy they met. I have to take it one day at a time with God on my side."