Missions Meeting

This afternoon I was able to meet with the team from First Baptist Church Royal Palm Beach that will be taking their first trip to Bolivia this June. I am extra excited about this team because it is from my "home" church! I got to continue sharing my passion for the BLC with my own church body, and I had the opportunity to get to know their hearts as well. We talked about the reasons we wanted to go to Bolivia and then played a game to help us understand our cultural assumptions. Several of us got frustrated when our cultures were challenged (and the whole game had to be played without speaking). Some people became aggressive by standing up and banging on the tables, some became frustrated and gave in, and some tried to compromise by creating a third culture (both the first one and the last one were me!) When we processed the game, we talked about specific cultural assumptions that we were aware of. One man at the meeting used to work in China. While he was there, someone he had been talking to and getting to know asked him, "When it is your turn to talk to the president, what will you ask him?" His friend assumed that everyone in the USA got a time to meet with the president! Sounds ridiculous to us, but surely we have equally ridiculous beliefs. I'm so excited to bring this part of my family to meet the Bolivian part of my family!!