Why I Work at WonGen
I work 3 days a week during the busy hours at WonGen Cafe'. I take orders, bring food and drinks, and work the cash register. I also help clear and clean tables when the customers leave. I wash dishes. It's probably not exactly what our supporters envision their missionary doing.
In all relationships, communication is essential, time together is important.
Where I am from, getting together once a week to build a discipleship kind of relationship is seen as good enough.
I brought that idea here and I don't think it works very well. Relationships here need much more time, trust builds slowly, change comes gradually. Seeing is believing, especially in the areas of love and trust.
It is not enough that I am a Bible school graduate. It is not enough that I am fluent in the language and understand the culture. I am still an unknown foreign woman.
Working at WonGen Cafe' enables the women who work there to get to know who I am & I get to know who they are. How we work with customers, how we work together. In the hours we spend around each other, we learn about each other. We share real life together.
I learn about and see more of what they struggle with, I can ask them more about their lives, I can pray for them better. There is less pretending to be more than we really are, on both sides.
When we open the Scriptures to learn and open the book that teaches Creation to Christ we are not strangers, but 2 women becoming friends.
Those we spend time with influence us greatly.
In all relationships, communication is essential, time together is important.
Where I am from, getting together once a week to build a discipleship kind of relationship is seen as good enough.
I brought that idea here and I don't think it works very well. Relationships here need much more time, trust builds slowly, change comes gradually. Seeing is believing, especially in the areas of love and trust.
It is not enough that I am a Bible school graduate. It is not enough that I am fluent in the language and understand the culture. I am still an unknown foreign woman.
Working at WonGen Cafe' enables the women who work there to get to know who I am & I get to know who they are. How we work with customers, how we work together. In the hours we spend around each other, we learn about each other. We share real life together.
I learn about and see more of what they struggle with, I can ask them more about their lives, I can pray for them better. There is less pretending to be more than we really are, on both sides.
When we open the Scriptures to learn and open the book that teaches Creation to Christ we are not strangers, but 2 women becoming friends.
Those we spend time with influence us greatly.
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