This year a Dutch tv episode, “Bestemming Onbekend” (Destination Unknown) was filmed on Mercy Ships. Perhaps you will be able to view this on YouTube. Two 22 year olds signed up and were selected for a trip of an unknown destination. Both, from the Netherlands, had their interests around women and marijuana. They had hoped to spend two weeks at a nice resort vacationing. Instead, they were taken on a surprising turn to Sierra Leone. We all laughed as they revealed their experiences serving with Mercy Ships in a third world country. The cultural shock, the living conditions, the lack of health care and extreme pathologies blew them away.
Watching this amazes me how this is the place I am serving. I am humbled whenever I meet other crew members who have taken time out of their comfortable lives to come and serve. I am even more humbled when I see them serve as dining room cleaners, housekeeping staff, kitchen cooks, stewards, hairdresser, librarian, shop cashier. There is no job here more minor than another. For it is with the gifts God's placed in each of us that each ligament and body part can come together as One and serve Him with one purpose. Thank you crew.
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