Jane's Ponderings: Final Day

THIS WAS ACTUALLY WRITTEN ON TUESDAY BUT WE HAD NO INTERNET TO UPLOAD....

As I write this it is our last day on the work site. I am sitting in the "tree house" with Pastor Dori and her husband. She is cooking our morning snack while I write. She and I have grown close during these 2 weeks, even though we do not understand each others spoken language. Honestly, that has made little difference.

She is the Pastor of this small, country church where we have been working. She walks miles up and down the mountain, on the dirt roads we have been traversing, hosting bible studies for the people who live here. She preaches the word of God with fervor, and when she prays out loud, I can imagine God leaning forward on His throne to hear her more clearly and then sending His angels to answer her prayers... I perceive this, and know that it is true, even though I cannot understand what she is saying. The spirit of God surrounds this place like nowhere else I have been, and He is clearly working through this amazing woman.

As we close out our trip we will share communion with the folks in this community. We will serve the bread and the juice to each other. There will be no discussion, or debate, about the order of worship or the book of order. There will be no liturgical rules to follow either. We will simply share and pray with each other, as one body of Christ, united in His love and grace.

The pictures below show the final results of our works, but more importantly, it shows the unity of the Body I have written about throughout this trip. I suspect you can see the love shared almost as much as we felt it on the Mountain, outside of Cali, Colombia.