Today we started out with a devotion focused on the theme: Action – intentionally living out your calling. The passage we read as a team was Hebrews 11. Each of the people that had their story of faith and purpose shared in Hebrews 11 didn’t know they would be written about. They didn’t know in those moments what the outcome would be or how it would end. Yet, as they acted in faith, and often patient faith –in the face of hardships and trials that had an unknown ending they had to surrender their human understanding and make room for what God’s purpose was, in faith. That faith drove them to action.
Today was a day full of action. Families working together to clean up Camp Abaco –from brush removal to beach cleanup, along with shingles and debris from the ocean due to Hurricane Dorian.
Tatum going to a local primary school working with kids on their reading and writing
Coaches leading basketball & volleyball camps –teaching skills to students, demonstrating how to give effective feedback, purposeful encouragement, and intentional devotion time.
Sons and daughters participating in the basketball & volleyball camps, regardless of skill or level, in order to create relationships and give encouragement to the kids in the camps.
Team members running the registration tables welcoming campers, calling them by name and then cheering for them from the sidelines while they played games.
Local pastors, missionaries, school teachers, school coaches coming to the camps to be there for the kids through presence and after camp snacks.
Ryan and Bret reinforcing doors at the community center with Andrew and Sam.
A new team of families –fathers & their sons –arrived to start to roof the community center.
Today’s actions started because all of these individuals said yes. What might seem as a simple three letter word, but behind it so many unknowns, it is faith that propelled them forward to step into the moments that happened. And all of these steps were because some very creative, passionate, loving leaders said yes months before to work, connect and be present at Camp Abaco working the mission of Many Hands for Abaco: Sam, Lisa, Tim, Laura, and Andrew. We have no idea what might happen. Who else might come. It could be you. What we do know is that God always shows up –not always how we imagine it, but He always does. So what we can say is we, as a family, will lean into our faith in Christ because with faith we can intentionally live out God’s purpose for us as a family and individually –because its game time…and not March Madness (although don’t worry we do have our brackets filled out)…its game time as followers of Jesus –to bring Heaven to Earth.
