try

I have tried starting this blog about five times now, trying to phrase this correctly, but can't quite nail it.  

Essentially, trying to summarize ministry activity.  I think it just boils down to:  try.  

Complicated eh?  Try implies a few things, probably more than I am thinking but...
1. You don't always succeed
2. It requires effort
3. It doesn't have to always be complicated.  

The picture here on the right (if this is displaying correctly of course) is from Talanga, pastor Manuel sharing this recipient of rice.  When I inquired about the hoe, he then casually added that he was someone looking for work all day in Talanga, who lives outside the city, and not finding any work, but remembering Manuel in the past had been able to help with some rice, took a chance to see if there was any so his family could eat that night.   

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We had a group here this past week, the first of the "summer" which will have...the most in a summer since 2008, if not the most ever for us.  

Soren is in country, and went with us, and thankfully recognized he was going to pass out before it happened.  While he was chatting with staff splayed out on the floor, someone also volunteered to take his BP.  Then he went back to talking to patients and their parents.  

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Things have just been starting in the Milk Project in Cantarranas, but already you can see the preparation and work coming together, not just in the daily activities, pastor Jonathan helping give classes a few days a week, new families coming to church now, but also in some very cool Mother's Day cards they shared making to take home.

Sometimes it is buildings, preaching, medical skill...sometimes it is some food, medical issues, and construction paper.  All are ways to worship, honor and glorify God to those around us, near and far.