Serving Others

I wanted to share two quick stories about God’s provision. It is very easy to get frustrated here with the lack of speed and efficiency we are accustomed to back home. It is refreshing to see God’s hand in the details.
Sunday at church they served communion. I was stand in the back of the outdoor service with Dave Ralston and a local. As the wine was being distributed, I noticed that cups didn’t look “clean” so i turned to Dave and asked if he was going to take communion. He replied that there went going to be enough to reach us in the back. I was satisfied with that because then I was off the hook from trusting God to keep me healthy after drinking from a used cup. As the usher got within the last 2 rows it appeared that Dave was correct. Somehow the usher made it back to us and wouldn’t you know there were only three cups left for the local, Dave and myself! Needless to say it was a huge reminder that I should be trusting in His provision.

The second story happened just a few hours ago. We are building a 3 stall self-composting toilet building in a community called Marechal. 
One of the bigger challenges is getting building materials. Today we were in need of 120 concrete blocks. We bought some from a man in the village the day before and went back to him. He took us about a 1/4 mile to a pile of block and we all instantly agreed there wouldn’t be enough. As we loaded the block we were amazed when the last unbroken block was counted and we had exactly 120!  There wasn’t one whole block left… Another small example of our big, faithful God…