We are all Laborers
A year ago this week, I was in Lisboa (Lisbon), Portugal.
Last year at this time, I was enjoying the warm weather, warm culture, and beautiful people and country of Portugal. Jordan was watching the snow and working many hours in preparation for the 8+ Easter services that would soon take place at Woodmen Valley Chapel where 12,000+ people would attend.
During the Sunday service there, I remember watching one of the missionaries lead worship and thinking, Jordan and I could do this. Then the pastor began to preach. I can't remember the exact message, but I do remember him speaking to the small Portuguese congregation and saying something along the lines of: All followers of Jesus are disciples, not just a select few. Why are these Americans and Canadians here? This is our country. Yes, we need people to come and work here, some of them for 30 years, but we need to take responsibility and share Jesus, too.
This is the lifestyle that Jordan and I want to live. We are no different than you - working as a teacher, a truck driver, an accountant, a mom, an executive assistant. We are striving to make disciples of Jesus who will make other disciples...it doesn't matter what context we are in.
Are you living like a laborer for His harvest? It's something I need to put in front of myself daily.
I think the reason I started thinking about Portugal was because I got to see one of my friends from that trip this week. Aaron and I had a one-year reunion of sorts over brunch in South Carolina - wish the others could have been there, too! :)
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| Lord willing, someday we will live in neighboring European countries! |
I was learning to teach English and share the Gospel with a Catholic nation. [If you are Portuguese, you are Catholic; you can't be one without the other.] I continued to wrestle with the idea of making disciples and doing Church like the book of Acts while knowing my husband was working hard for a big production.
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| Some of my students learning the parts of the body - so fun! To learn more about what our team was doing/learning in Portugal, you can click here for the blog we kept during those 10 days. |
During the Sunday service there, I remember watching one of the missionaries lead worship and thinking, Jordan and I could do this. Then the pastor began to preach. I can't remember the exact message, but I do remember him speaking to the small Portuguese congregation and saying something along the lines of: All followers of Jesus are disciples, not just a select few. Why are these Americans and Canadians here? This is our country. Yes, we need people to come and work here, some of them for 30 years, but we need to take responsibility and share Jesus, too.
This is the lifestyle that Jordan and I want to live. We are no different than you - working as a teacher, a truck driver, an accountant, a mom, an executive assistant. We are striving to make disciples of Jesus who will make other disciples...it doesn't matter what context we are in.
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| Luke 10:2 "And he said to them, 'The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.'" |
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