Paint Thugs

After 4 days and many many hours of painting we have finally finished.  We spent a lot of our days recently painting a large warehouse for Greatest Gift Ministries, a non-profit that is run through the church.  Since I'm on the topic let me tell you a bit about this unique ministry.  The ministry is modeled after Operation Christmas Child by Samaritans Purse, which builds gift boxes for young boys and girls and sends them to less fortunate kids in other parts of the world.  Darren the founder of the ministry personally delivers the boxes to the countries they are built for.  The difference of his ministry is that his teams are made up of believers and non-believers.  Many missions trips are mostly for Christians but Darren presents a challenge to nonbelievers to go to these places and experience it for themselves.  This is huge for the Japanese nationals that go on these trips.  They do not see extreme poverty every day so it is hardly a real problem to them.  Yet once they see it for themselves it opens their eyes up to the world and it also places them in a very sensitive spiritual state.  Darren has been able to disciple people that have gone on prior trips.  We also got a great opportunity to meet with a couple girls that went on past trips to Cambodia and the Philippines. We had a great conversation about living a life of service. Now back to the painting we did. We did a stinking lot of it. The end.