How many of you have used a stapler before? Or I suppose I should ask, how many of you have NEVER used a stapler? I imagine that if you’re reading this and are over the age of 10 or so, using a stapler is something you’ve done lots of times and know how to do well.
But the other day I had some papers that needing stapling and I asked one of my alphabet party guys to staple them, and he told me that he had never used a stapler before. He had seen staplers and had even seen people using them, but he had never used one himself. So then of course I had to give him several opportunities to use it, I opened it up and explained how it worked, I told him to watch out for his fingers, etc.
When I told this recently to my mom, her comment was, “And you wonder why everything takes you longer!” Yeah, I suppose that if I had a team with Ethnos360 I probably wouldn’t have to teach them things that we consider basic, like using a stapler, using Excel or Word or Powerpoint (though I sent them to a training for the basics of that at least), who Ruth and Boaz are, etc. I guess things like that contribute to the reasons why things progress so slowly here!
Thank you for every moment you spend communicating God’s love there in person in every mundane and important interaction. May He grant you patience and joy and use it all to reach the lost who would not otherwise know of His great salvation in Jesus!