Hello All,
We just finished a SLAM Service Week in Mombasa, Kenya which was, while shortened from a full week, incredibly impactful.
Mr. Garner was talking to us during our transit back to Uganda about the concept of having our eyes opened to certain things. To illustrate this, he took us through Matthew 6 starting at verse 25 and was pointing out that since most of us no longer live in an agrarian society (often the audience of Jesus’ time), the imagery that Jesus uses is lost on us. We aren’t the intended audience because the scenario he is talking through doesn’t really apply to us.
The Kenya service week was eye opening, for us interns and for the SLAM students. So many of the testimonies were about realizing that God’s work is something they can do with their own hands and feet. It isn’t something they can just wait for money to be thrown at; they have the capacity to do God’s work.
For me, this felt like a capstone to so many of the themes that have been coming up for me with Summer Internship–laborers for the harvest, eyes being opened, the sustainability of the kingdom, and more. I struggle to really capture how much I’ve learned about each of these things in a blog but if I could say nothing else, I am coming into an understanding and greater perspective on the stability of the Kingdom of Heaven versus the instability of the Kingdoms of Earth.
I have been so blessed to have my eyes opened on this trip. God bless those who the world does not see.
In Christ,
Tyler Worlow.