Network......

I had an interesting experience this week that was a graphic illustration of how the Body of Christ is supposed to work. I contacted a friend of mine who lives in Florida, but is involved in a mission in India. I was doing some research which I hoped would increase our effectiveness among the poor in Kenya. I was directed to a group who have designed a very efficient and every inexpensive adobe oven for use among indigenous people in South America, and who have published a very helpful document complete with design and fabrication instructions which was distributed in Uganda. Having obtained the proper documentation which came as the result of a virtual global journey, I forwarded the information on to my good friend and co-worker in Kenya who promptly told me that this would be very helpful information for some indigenous people he knows - in Sudan.

Over the years as my involvement in various projects around the world has expanded, I have noted a pattern. The church works best when instead of each doing his own thing we learn that we're all doing God's thing and that what one learns is not for him to guard as a private possession - but it is a gift for the Kingdom.

Next, I hope to take a design for a water filter in Brazil and pass it along to a friend in Massachusetts who will put it to good use in Sudan. Wow! This is fun!