Boats on the shore...
The written purpose of this team is to observe, listen and learn...but we learned with our hearts so much more...
The purpose of gifting of boxes here is to birth churches ....through the gospel given freely to the children, but parents and others watching, hearing as well. Win generations to Christ....by a simple gospel presentation and a love gift from people far away...
One question raised-did you see anything that Jesus might see?
We arrived at a small airport in Riohacha, Columbia...northern coast...the plane was full...six seats across, not a small plane...
Colombian people for the most part, but included a group of 20 Americans, we picked up our baggage and boarded a big fancy bus...
Then we drove a main road to our hotel. The hotel faces the ocean. We only needed to walk across the street to be on the beach, step into the sand, crowded with street venders, palm trees, a few fishermen and strolling people.
On the road to the hotel, we passed industrial areas, small shops and finally came to the beach drive...humanity...beached fishing boats...not motorized, but, small sailing boats covered with drying nets...
We walked before dinner, to watch the sun set into a cloudy ocean filled with reds, oranges and yellows turning quickly into purples, grays...beautiful ...
My "sighting", people, boats...my visual for this day of the trip...
Just as these boats and their fisherman fish daily for food, throwing out their nets, pulling in the harvest...so are we to cast out the gospel. God providing the "fish" for harvest...we are to be fishers of men...
Casting, pulling in, giving out...knowing that He desires people to be brought in...none to perish ...
This trip is said to "birth churches", to go to the fields ripe for harvest of souls, freely giving them the gift of salvation, "fishing"....
Diner was another reminder of those fisherman and their boats, fresh fish, cooked to perfection, harvested diligently...
Just as the chefs prepared our food, we fish for people, preparing them well, equipping them through the Word(recipe of life)...
Thank YOU...help me to be diligent in the gifts you have given, to truly be a fisher of men...to see the lost, to give...to fish ....
Matthew 4:18-22 As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew.
They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen.
"Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.”
At once they left their nets and followed him.
Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John.
They were in a boat with their father Zebedee, preparing their nets.
Jesus called them, and immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.
Luke 5:4-7, 9-11 When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.”
Simon answered, “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything.
But because you say so, I will let down the nets.” When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break.
So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink.
For he and all his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken, and so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, Simon’s partners. Then Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid; from now on you will fish for people.”
So they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything and followed him.
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