Doing Something

The team leaves today! Ready or not, here they go. Some have been packed and ready for days and others have probably been up all night and may have even made that midnight trip to Walmart. :) Continue to pray that their departure and journey all go without issues.

For everyone who believes in Christ, how we live out our faith will look different from day to day. But as the scripture says below, faith and works go hand in glove. Faith just doesn't work without doing something.

For this team, their "doing something" takes them to Segera. For some of us staying behind, our "something" was helping some of them get there and praying for them along the way. All of us can make a difference somehow, somewhere. It doesn't have to be in Kenya or even across the ocean. We must do something and then do something else after that.

Dear friends, do you think you'll get anywhere in this if you learn all the right words but never do anything? Does merely talking about faith indicate that a person really has it? For instance, you come upon an old friend dressed in rags and half-starved and say, "Good morning, friend! Be clothed in Christ! Be filled with the Holy Spirit!" and walk off without providing so much as a coat or a cup of soup—where does that get you? Isn't it obvious that God-talk without God-acts is outrageous nonsense?

I can already hear one of you agreeing by saying, "Sounds good. You take care of the faith department, I'll handle the works department."

Not so fast. You can no more show me your works apart from your faith than I can show you my faith apart from my works. Faith and works, works and faith, fit together hand in glove.

James 2:14-18 (The Message)


BPF Kenya Team 2009 - We love you and are praying for you from several different time zones so we've got you covered! Now, go do something!