Lesson #1: Serving God is Fun

Over the entire month of July as I learned about our life as a missionary and then spent ten days in Honduras, I was constantly reminded that serving God is fun. But what struck me somewhere along the way was that for someone who has the privilege of serving God 24 hours a day with no restraints, I don't have near enough fun. Ministry becomes a burden. Volunteering to serve becomes an inconvenience. When I am doing it there is always something that is easy to find to complain about. Laughter is a rare commodity.


But, as I searched my heart, confessed somethings to the Lord, and turned off some "unimportant things" I began to see a few more smiles and a lot more laughter. It is really kind of hard to frown and be miserable when you really stop and grasp who you are doing it for.

And below are just a few pictures from both trips to prove that we really did have a lot of fun!

Preparing for fundraiser to raise support for Honduras trip

Tasting coffee made fresh from the tree (when we were supposed to actually be building a concrete block building)

Even playing with concrete as a way to serve God can be fun

This is the trail where we "slid" down in the mud to build bunk beds and deliver both physical and spiritual food.

Of course we took the Northwest Observer with us to take a picture

Not allowed to take the glass bottles from the store, so they pour your soda into a bag and give you a straw

After a hike down a mountain to a creek, where I dropped my camera in the river and this beautiful lady jumped in after it.