What do you think of when you hear the words "church planting"? Ever think of the body of Christ coming together to plant corn? I didn't, at least not until last Friday. This past week we joined our good friends Geraldo and Susana and their children in sowing corn and squash seeds in their fields. This family, like so many others here on the outskirts of town and in the surrounding villages, have a few modest sized fields around their house where they plant in hopes of harvesting a crop of corn, squash, and beans that will sustain them for all or most of the year.
This wasn't our first time helping this family with their fields. We've been a part of two harvests and now two plantings. Geraldo and Susana already had an interest in God and His Word when we befriended them a year and a half ago, and it's been a blessing to watch God's kingdom take root and grow in their lives. The agrarian lifestyle has provided us ample opportunity to share the truths that Christ himself hid in stories of soils, sowers, and seeds. As we labor alongside of them in the hopes of a great corn harvest, we think about all that we and others have sown into their lives, and we rejoice that the Spirit of God is at work in their lives and pray that God will lead them to work in His abundant harvest for eternal life.
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