I'm sorry for how long a post has been in coming. This is the first time I've had internet in a while. I've updated our team intro post with pictures, so if you haven't met the riverboat teams yet you can check that post out first, by clicking here.
Three teams of five were sent off last week up each of three rivers in Eastern Samar. We are taking the Good News to a people called the Waray-Waray. Waray means "nothing." Saying it twice makes a bold and underlined pronouncement: the "Nothing of Nothings."
Don't get me wrong--we don't travel up the river to pity these friends. We aren't here to inject positive self-esteem into the water. In fact, I can say with certainty that we will learn a whole lot more from them about life and contentment from them than we might ever presume to teach. But what we do have to give, we carry with a sobering sense of responsibility, with light and joy in our hearts, with humility and fear and trembling at its weight.
Please pray that by God's grace the Waray-Waray, the "Nothing of Nothings," would come to know what is the breadth and length and height and depth of the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that they may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Pray that God would use us to let the Waray-Waray know that He made them in His image, for Himself, and therefore they are of such worth to Him as has already been demonstrated by His perfect Son's susbstitutionary death on the cross.
