A good reminder for everyone. Thanks to Kaitlyn McNeal for sharing these thoughts with us from the front lines. 

One of the best parts of this experience was just sharing life with everyone there; both the team and the friends we made. This summer was a great reminder that M work is not just a short-term trip and not just for certain people; it’s a lifestyle that all believers are called to live.

Father has also shown me more of my great need for Him. I am constantly and completely dependent on Him, and that will never change. Nothing that happened during the summer was because of the strength of the people there, but because of the great God we serve.

Something specific Father has taught me is that I’m often far too comfortable with where I am instead of fighting to grow deeper and be stretched in new ways. I remember looking out my apartment window and watching the people who were running errands or children who were playing soccer, and thinking about the many people I’d met who were far too content with keeping to themselves and living reserved, happy lives. But empty happiness doesn’t bring about changed lives or hunger for the Word. So for myself and those around me I pray for hearts that are seeking for something more than what empty happiness brings. Because when there’s seeking, there’s finding

  “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” –Matthew 7:7-8