Just What We Needed

Days on a mission trip are like days everywhere else.  Some days you feel you are doing exactly what God meant you to do, and other days you get a bit discouraged.  Some of the team working on the docks felt the struggle on Tuesday.  They were in an area with plenty of traffic, but most people were rushing to an event at Excel and weren’t interested in stopping to view the Gift Box or answer survey questions. 

At the end of the day the team convened for a meeting on the back porch of High Leigh for prayer and strategy for the following day.  The meeting had barely gotten started when a More Than Gold representative approached the team to tell us that a large donation of Olympic pins had arrived - 20,000 of them, in fact!  At his invitation we filled our backpacks and thanked God that he had given us another set of tools for the following day.

Pin trading, or badge trading as the Brits say, is a huge pastime at the Olympic Games, and even those who don’t collect and trade pins love to get them for free.  On Wednesday, Twinkles the clown joined the docks team to do face art, and the other members gave away pins right and left.  The result was that both the survey and the Gift Box were hugely successful.

The donation of pins that gave our ministry a fresh start should have arrived days ago and would have been long gone when we needed them.  Another example of God’s divine intervention!