What I learned in Belize

What haveI been up too? A lot. I have a new boy and I’ve been planning the final stages and leading my first international mission trip to Belize City, Belize. You can read about the trip, which I got back from on Sunday, here.

I learned a few valuable lessons on my trip.

1) God is a big God. It’s humbling to worship with people who live in abject poverty and know that God listens to our prayers, often at the same time as the prayers of a child living in a trash infested swamp, and dosen’t strike us dead, but actually has compassion on us.

2) The world is small. People are people and it is going to be awesome to worship together before God one day if this past week was any indicator.

3) There are faithful pastors and men and women of God working in the tough places of the world without the help of the American church, and sometimes in spite of it. One such is Pastor Dickie of Open Doors Chapel in Belize City and his family. The man is a patriarch of Old Testament proportions. He looks after and mentors the pastors of the city and the street children alike. He helps plant churches all over the country and works faithfully for long term gospel change in his nation.

4) I am allergic to mangoes. My lips look like they had a good dose of botox, but man they were good.

5) There’s no place like home.