For as long as I can remember I have loved math not just in the fact that it was my favorite subject all the way through high school but in the way that I genuinely rejoice in figuring out solutions with numbers. To me there is great beauty in the fact that no matter where you are this plus this will always be that. It is clean. It is simple. It is reliable.
Over the past few weeks, God has been teaching me that He is that unknown portion of the equation that I always dreaded in advanced mathematics. Since April, Project Ruth has been blessed by multiple volunteer teams doing many different ministries with and around Project Ruth. Project Ruth staff has to work a little bit more whenever we have volunteer teams: logistics have to be figured out, meals prepared, sheets washed, questions answered. Yet, it has become overwhelmingly obvious that whatever extra we do is multiple to extraordinary proportions for the Kingdom as volunteers meet the needs in ways that we are unable. God is the unknown multiplier that takes the efforts of volunteer teams & Project Ruth staff and produces a much larger outcome for His good than any of us expected each time and every time.
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| My Dad being a Project Ruth "uncle" during his trip in April. |
When trying to put into words the vital role that volunteers play in the ministry of Project Ruth, I often equate it to a family. The teachers, admin staff and other workers of Project Ruth are the mommies and daddies of the family. We work to keep the "family" running on a day to day basis: teaching, balancing budgets, making lunch each day, providing medical care. Our volunteer teams are the extended family that get to do all the things that mom & dad never get to do: field trips, Easter egg hunts, day camp, sports club, craft activities, painting fingernails, sleep-away camp, painting classrooms, school improvements and countless other activities. So thank you to all those that have become Project Ruth aunts, uncles, grandmas, and grandpas over the past few months by loving our kids and the Ferentari community for Christ in ways that we often can't without you.
