Bearing Precious Seed Trip: Part One

Let's go back to early summer 2015 when I'm not sure a trip to BPS will even happen for me. I don't feel at peace about it and so I wrestle over the thought for days. I go to camp and hearing preaching on compassion. I begin to see the need for change in my life over this topic. I study it when I am home and continue to hear thoughts and quotes about it. And this is really where the journey begins...

It's July 9th, and I am on a plane heading to Texas. My life for the next month will be spent at Bearing Precious Seed serving as a volunteer worker. Being a volunteer down at BPS rather than a team member on a trip is a lot different. As a volunteer your nights are super late, your mornings are WAY earlier, your time is spent preparing for Mexico, you rarely have down time, you get to be behind the scenes, you get to know the staff really well, and in my opinion you get take this trip to a whole new level! This was not my first time as a volunteer, but there were some new things and some things that I knew nothing about. One of those things I knew nothing about was the fact that the day I board the plane to leave I will not be the same person I was that came down the month before.

I arrived on property mid afternoon and after dropping off and setting up a few of my things in the apartment, I stepped into the midst of serving. We work on cleaning, preparing, cooking, and other such things the days leading up to the trip. Saturday evening arrives and we make our way to the mountain to start the first missions trip on my journey.

Week one at BPS was a very challenging week. Basically anything that could go wrong, did go wrong. Bus tires blowing, buses breaking down, physical exhaustion, LOOOONG lines at the border, etc. but we kept pressing on a looking up, though I know each of us was so weary. It was so easy to ask why? But one night as I was spending time with the Lord and talking to Him about it, while waiting in line at the long border line, He brought this verse to mind:

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

Isaiah 55:8

God used this week to really drive home to me that I don't always understand, and there will always be things that I want to ask "why?" about, but I just need to trust Him because His ways are always higher and better. We could never imagine the things the Lord has planned and laid out- whether He will show us now or whether He's using this time now to write a story for years down the road, I can rest at ease that everything is totally in His hands and He is going to do great things. Maybe that seems like nothing to you because it seems like a no brainer, but when God places you in the midst of it and you literally see it in action, it takes on a whole new meaning.

I shared a little bit about week one in {this} post.

There's so much more to share, come back next week and check it out!