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Global Urban Trek 2008
Empowering StartJune 23, 2008
Over the past few days here in Miami, FL only words like “magical” or “life changing” could ever be used to describe this experience.
We have yet to speak, hear, or decipher a single word of a foreign language and already our team has visible sparkles in our eyes, a growing addiction planted in our hearts long ago as a little seed that has finally taken shape. God’s desire for our summer has been manifested; even now as it unfolds, there is a common understanding that it is only the beginning.
For some of us, this will be our first time overseas or on missions or even on a plane, but the Lord knows it won’t be the last. Thanks to our new friends at the first Presbyterian Church of Miami springs, we have been spoiled with comfortable sleeping arrangements, multicultural meals, air conditioning, and all-around homey accommodations. Although it has rained nearly everyday and stormed at night, our first impressions of the Trek are more than hospitable. Besides, we’ve been busy with orientation training from sun-up to lights-out.
Through the process here we have gone over some of the many harsh realities that plague our planet’s poor and destitute. We are learning to acknowledge the forgotten and love the displaced. To prepare, not predict. To supplicate, not suppress.
While emotion has already been flowing wildly through our veins in a bizarre mixture of anticipation, joy, and fear, the body of Christ really seemed to just explode the other night after evening worship.
On our way out of the little chapel and in the process of abstaining from food (aka “fasting”), we marched a procession out into the courtyard singing a Creole hymn “Mache.” Repeating in Creole, “Jesus, on high, on high!” and “Satan, down low, down low!” our voices rang louder and faster to the drums as the Holy Spirit filled the place with jubilation and all who were present broke out in celebration and dance.
Then the electricity went out, and we cheered louder. Lifting our voices, we felt a sense of power and comfort in singing of our Lord’s victory over all evil and all sin.
Then, the local bagpipe club helped us lay on the grass beneath the night sky and dream away to a beautiful Scottish rendition of “Amazing Grace.” With the first clear moment of the trip without rain, we soaked in all that had been taught and just…wow. Beautiful.
For Peru, Cairo, and Mexico teams we pray, and from Diana, Vince, Helyn, Cally, Grace, Andy, and me – thanks, and God bless.
“The Sovereign Lord is my strength; He makes my feet like the feet of a deer, He enables me to go on the heights.” – Habakkuk 3:18-19
- Dylan
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