Friday July 30, 2010
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| Our room & our mosquito net beds |
We went to Apayao in Northern Luzon for a week with the Chi Alpha team from Texas. We all stayed at HISOM, a small AG Bible College in the jungle. I was so impressed by these students. For a week we lived, ate, slept, and ministered in the same conditions that did; mosquito nets, whatever food we could get, and extreme heat with no aircon. These ten students literally gave up everything to go to school for three years, work in the rice fields to pay for their schooling, all because they want to seek God more and see what He has for their lives. It was an incredible thing to see.
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| The bathroom and shower |
God showed us that we can be stretched way beyond what we think we can handle. The living conditions were not in any way comfortable or convenient, nor were they sanitary, however, in a week, God showed me how many people live and they have no other choice. We can live so simply but do not know what it means to live like this until we truly experience it.
Psalm 69: 32-36
32 The poor will see and be glad—
you who seek God, may your hearts live!
33 The LORD hears the needy
and does not despise his captive people.
34 Let heaven and earth praise him,
the seas and all that move in them,
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| The kitchen |
35 for God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah.
Then people will settle there and possess it;
36 the children of his servants will inherit it,
and those who love his name will dwell there.
