A Simple Supper

Rebekah has 30 years of experience in IT management.  She came to Sanford to spend a week helping NTM’s IT team look into the future.

And she was our guest at supper last night. 

She shared with Dave and me how much she had learned about missions since she has been here.

First, she has learned that going on a missions trip is not just going somewhere to swing a hammer or even going to a different country.  She’s from a very missions-minded church, and has wanted to go on a missions trip for years, but she couldn’t see herself on any of the typical trips. Recently, she learned about NTM’s need in IT, and realized God had gifted her with insight and experience in that very area.  So here she is, on her first missions trip, with hopes to do more in the months ahead.

Second, she has learned that hosting a missionary for a meal doesn’t have to be a big deal. Her church often has opportunity for the church members to host missionaries for meals, but she never signed up because she doesn’t cook “fancy” meals.  While she is here, she is having meals with members of Computer Services. Ours was the second home she’d been in for an evening meal.  And she’s realized that a meal for a missionary doesn’t have to be fancy.  It can be the everyday food that she normally serves her family.  So now she plans to start putting her name on those sign-up sheets for hosting missionaries.

Creamy chicken chili and breadsticks – a simple supper. I didn’t think as I was preparing it that it was anything special. Amazing that it helped change Rebekah’s perspective on providing meals for missionaries.

And I’m reminded that everything we do – even something as basic as deciding what’s for supper – can have long-lasting effects.