Yesterday marked a second day’s work on Mrs. Campbell's house. And although 11 adults from Shiloh have come to New Orleans help Mrs. Campbell and her family move into her home, hundreds of other volunteers will come and be a part of the incredible process it is to rehab a house from ruin. It’s really does take a lot of team work, not only team work among the group from Shiloh, but also team work among the many volunteer and servant groups who come to work in partnership with St. Bernard Parish.
For the most part we will have worked on filling the house with insulation and putting up dry wall, but many groups will come after us and mud, paint, and do many of the things that have to happen to ready Mrs. Campbell for the day she and her family will walk in the front door and call this house home.
But church isn’t that just true about the kingdom of God? We are always working together to do our part, our piece that adds to God’s kingdom work. So often we can get caught up in “my” thing- “my” passion, “my” ministry, even “my” church- that we fail to see what God sees! God sees it all! Every project, every mission, every church and leads us to work together on God’s team. We are all on God’s team! Now we are not only on God’s team to get the job done, but we are also on God’s team because we need each other: helping each other, encouraging each other, and certainly praying for one another.
Let me say I praise God because we are on the same team, and we are working together to claim the community, the city, the nation and the world for Jesus Christ.
Your teammate
Pastor Rachel
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