"The Planters"

The First thing that came into my mind as i was trying to think what I was going to write is that this author (the one speaking) is full of wisdom. God has blessed him with wisdom to administrate, plan to the furture. Not only that, but the passion he uses is a great combination.

The part the really stuck out for me for this group, is the "Learning esperiences" section, where we tend to want to take over in a short term mission's trip. This kind of goes with my preview post "experiencin Life at the margins." Most of the time, we want to go in a short term mission "to serve." The serving part becomes a blindfold, and we fail to see that we're not giving the church the realtionship that we need. Like the pastor said, "They say...'We're going to do A, B, C, D, and we're in charge.'" That should not be our mentality as a team, but to go there as their guest and having a servant's attitude is the real deal: if they ask you to paint with them, paint, and if they ask you to spend a day talking nad chilling, talk and chill with them. With this, another thing we as a team should do is create a Christian short-term mission's model that does not depend of money. Like Paul mentioned, a model should be depending on hospitality, not on materialistic things, such as staying in a 5 star hotel, because that says we're there carrying a litle vanity with us. Making ourselves vulnerable is principle in this. We shouldnt be taking the most expensive clothing there, neither taking 20 pairs of shoes or showing off our devices, but trying to be as low leveled as we can be, humbling ourselves. That's how we can be planters.