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Ladies ladies ladies

On another trip today to deliver food parcels here in South Africa, working with partners who know the hungry the orphans those poor on the edge. The sense of excitement has seemed to have gone out food delivery for me. Do not get me wrong I do not mean the desire to do the work the kingdom has evaporated but that initial sense of excitement of who will I meet? where am I going?  Delivering food to poor hungry people has become the norm for us. That does not mean it is of any less value perhaps the opposite. I think it means for me driving to feed the poor and hungry has become way of life at the moment, it is as normal as being hungry for some people. One of the things Jesus is recorded as saying is this “you will always have the poor”. There is such a certainty about his observation, statement, assessment and unfortunately, Jesus seems to be right even today. So to serve and care for the poor does not need excitement it needs commitment, love and a servant hart. Which in the Kingdom of God is normal life and attitude.
So here is my second observation on my ordinary feeding delivering day, ladies, ladies, ladies. Each center I have visited it is nearly always staffed by ladies, cooking, cleaning, reading scripture, praying, caring. I know there are men in the country I see them in the street I see them in the shops, I see them in church. But week after week I meet ladies of all ages at family centers showing the love of Christ.  
I asked a lady today, ‘where are all the men’? Her reply was ‘they (men) will only work for money, we do this for nothing’. I can see they the men need to support their families but what is the church modelling if only the women serve like this. I am in awe of theses ladies' serving and caring I’m not sure what the situation in South Africa would be like without theses serving ladies, worse than terrible because its terrible at the moment. Please pray for these faithful ladies' and pray for men to serve like Christ in their communities.
Thank you. thank you, Ladies     




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