July Mission Team Update July 13th 2011

Getting to spend time with the Asante Choir kids has been the most spiritually humbling experience of my life.  These beautiful children put my faith to shame!  I have never before seen worship with so much passion and devotion, let alone seen such qualities in children as young as 8 years old.  God is glorified with every word that is sung and every dance that is performed.  The children rejoice with eyes closed and hands outreached toward the sky.  Some bury their faces in their hands and others even drop to their knees.  As I stand and listen to them sing and pray in a language I can’t understand, I’m ashamed that my worship is so routine and lukewarm.  I realize now that I never knew what true worship was until I watched these kids.  I can feel God’s glory when I listen to them sing.  And the best part is their JOY!  They experience so much agony and pain and still God’s name is lifted high.  I can barely accomplish that feat on a good day, let alone a bad one.  I used to feel sorry for these kids because I saw what poverty they live in, but then I realized their faith was 10 times stronger than my cushy fortunate American faith.  They show more joy and faith in a single day than I can in a lifetime.  So really, who’s the poor one?

Written by Tina Garcia