Verses of the day: Psalm 91
The day started off quite early for a Saturday morning. A few friends were coming over for breakfast at 9 o'clock, so that we could be done before 10 in time to go do refugee ministry at an area in downtown Dallas. Preparations needed to be started around 8am so that the casserole and muffins could be done before 9. After a hilarious time cooking with Alex and Hope, the six of us cozily sat down around the dining table and feasted on fruit, muffins, casserole, and milk, while I was able to have half an apple and Energen. Cooking and being around all that food was not a temptation at all, praise the Lord! However, none of us would fathom what would happen later that day.
Vickery is an area in Dallas in which thousands of refugees from around the world are settled into low-income housing. Global Connect, a missions group that I am part of, go there every other Saturday to walk around the streets and evangelize, play soccer, meet families, or whatever else the Spirit leads us to do. Today, instead of splitting up, we stayed as one group and went into one apt complex where Alex recognized a young man whom he had met once before named P. P invited us into his apt, where we sat on the floor as he began to share with us his testimony of how he is a Rwandan genocide survivor. He proceeded to tell us that he had lost his 5 brothers, friends, and many friends during the genocide and his leg was hit by a grenade shrapnel. Then another man named G arrived, who also told us his incredible testimony. G was living in Nigeria when Muslim militants began attacking his village and was captured by them. Because he is a Christian, they beat him and bound him up and put gasoline on his hands and body. They lit his hands on fire with the intent of allowing him to suffer a slow, excruciating death. Through a supernatural miracle (God literally struck his captors with a lightning bolt), he was able to get away. Now, they are living here all alone with nothing and no one (both of their families were killed in Africa), yet they declare that they are "rich" in God and that "God is good." Through their suffering, their love for Jesus has been refined and deepened. It was so humbling and inspiring to listen to them! We ended our time together by singing and praying on the floor in different languages. Simply incredible.
Psalm 91 is the chapter of the day because it was the psalm that P started reading to us in Swahili, a psalm that is "very special" to him. Read it in light of his past and current circumstances, and see how significant it is.
Today, day 3, means that 10% of this challenge is done, and yet I'm realizing more and more how this is absolutely not about me.
Breakfast: 1/2 apple, 1/4 cup Energen. $0.28
Lunch: 1 c brown rice, 1/4 c tuna, a handful of wild green onions (picked from the woods!) $0.46
Dinner: 1 packet Ramen, 1/4 c brown rice, 2 cabbage leaves $0.26
Approx. total: $1.00
The day started off quite early for a Saturday morning. A few friends were coming over for breakfast at 9 o'clock, so that we could be done before 10 in time to go do refugee ministry at an area in downtown Dallas. Preparations needed to be started around 8am so that the casserole and muffins could be done before 9. After a hilarious time cooking with Alex and Hope, the six of us cozily sat down around the dining table and feasted on fruit, muffins, casserole, and milk, while I was able to have half an apple and Energen. Cooking and being around all that food was not a temptation at all, praise the Lord! However, none of us would fathom what would happen later that day.
Vickery is an area in Dallas in which thousands of refugees from around the world are settled into low-income housing. Global Connect, a missions group that I am part of, go there every other Saturday to walk around the streets and evangelize, play soccer, meet families, or whatever else the Spirit leads us to do. Today, instead of splitting up, we stayed as one group and went into one apt complex where Alex recognized a young man whom he had met once before named P. P invited us into his apt, where we sat on the floor as he began to share with us his testimony of how he is a Rwandan genocide survivor. He proceeded to tell us that he had lost his 5 brothers, friends, and many friends during the genocide and his leg was hit by a grenade shrapnel. Then another man named G arrived, who also told us his incredible testimony. G was living in Nigeria when Muslim militants began attacking his village and was captured by them. Because he is a Christian, they beat him and bound him up and put gasoline on his hands and body. They lit his hands on fire with the intent of allowing him to suffer a slow, excruciating death. Through a supernatural miracle (God literally struck his captors with a lightning bolt), he was able to get away. Now, they are living here all alone with nothing and no one (both of their families were killed in Africa), yet they declare that they are "rich" in God and that "God is good." Through their suffering, their love for Jesus has been refined and deepened. It was so humbling and inspiring to listen to them! We ended our time together by singing and praying on the floor in different languages. Simply incredible.
Psalm 91 is the chapter of the day because it was the psalm that P started reading to us in Swahili, a psalm that is "very special" to him. Read it in light of his past and current circumstances, and see how significant it is.
Today, day 3, means that 10% of this challenge is done, and yet I'm realizing more and more how this is absolutely not about me.
Breakfast: 1/2 apple, 1/4 cup Energen. $0.28
Lunch: 1 c brown rice, 1/4 c tuna, a handful of wild green onions (picked from the woods!) $0.46
Dinner: 1 packet Ramen, 1/4 c brown rice, 2 cabbage leaves $0.26
Approx. total: $1.00
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