Serve, Serve, Serve

As a missionary in a developing nation, I have had to make just a few changes in my life. My personality has changed, expectations for a life lived on this earth have changed, my "rights" have changed, and yet my role-model for my life hasn't changed one bit...

Fellow missionary to Brazil, Bud Simon over at the Xingu Mission in Altamira, shares some thoughts about missionary living in a 5 part series. Check out the full article here.

When someone goes as a missionary, they must take a servant heart. They seek out opportunities to serve. They don’t say, “well I didn’t know” or “No one called me” or “No one told me”. They are on the mission field as servants.

The most valuable questions are: 

“What can I do to help?” 

“How can I help?” 

“What needs to be done?” 

“How can I make you more successful?” 

“How can I lighten your load?”

Clearly, the words are a reflection of the attitude. This is by far the toughest hurdle to jump. We come as missionaries thinking we will do something important. We forget that our King of Kings came “to serve, not to be served”. People focus on efficiency and impact and strategy and adding value and what the latest church growth guy has to say or the latest guru has to impart. We all need to look back at the example of Christ. The shadow Jesus cast stretches to this day. Serve, serve, serve.