The Millers have started a neighborhood devotional time at 7 every thursday in their epitam (gazeebo like thing) outside their home. Inviting people from the streets inside the walls of home compounds is not always a norm for missionaries, ironic but true for various reasons, so seeing this in action was such an encouragement for me. At 7 there was one guy, Patcha, who had arrived. Despite this I watched as Matt Miller carried chair after chair into the epitam until there was no more room. As I sat there, at 7:15, with Patcha I had a moment of doubt that much else happen. In that doubt, however, i remembered the way I've seen God bless and work and prayed that no chairs would be left empty. At 7:40 people began walking in the gate and by 8:15 there were people sharing chairs. What an answer! When we give up being afraid of exposing ourselves, our wealth, and perhaps our greed we open up doors, even literal ones, for God to bring people too us. I know that personally, the aquisition of "wedding shower wealth" made me alot more concious about leaving the blinds/doors open etc. in our rather urban apartment complex. But how can God use me to reach my neighbors when my life is locked, hiding, inside walls seperating me from my neighbors? Part of our life goals in Kara and Montgomery is to live in such a way, personally and materially, that we have no fear of the loss of things that would ever keep us away from the hope of a neighbor finding eternal life.
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