A good change
Tonight was the monthly birthday party at our missions base, where we celebrated all staff members and missionary training school students who have birthdays in October. This month, we encouraged everyone to invite Mexican friends to join us. We served a meal and invited a rap group from a local church to come and perform.
I was encouraged as I looked around at dinner tonight, because I think probably more of our staff and students invited people who came than at any similar event we’ve had in the past several years. We’ve had lots of locals come before, but they’ve often mostly been friends of our directors. This time, it felt like a lot of different people had someone here they had personally invited, and a number of those who came were new friends that have just been made in the past month or two.
It’s exciting, because I think our ministry as a whole right now is doing the best job we’ve done at being salt and light in our daily lives, reaching out to whoever we come into contact with. A lot of this I would attribute to a major shift in our strategy a few months ago, which I will explain in future posts. In the past, our base has been almost exclusively a gringo hub, but I’m seeing more and more Mexicans around here these days, especially those who live around us in our neighborhood. Seeing a large dining room full of Mexicans and Americans mingling and enjoying each other’s company tonight was cool.
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