It’s Not About Me
The Ayorou trip was a very interesting outreach trip where a group of us went to a small town to clean up a clinic for the people living in that town. When we got to Ayorou, we went to Marc’s house where the guys were staying. Then we got out of the school van and went to visit the clinic that we were going to clean, and paint.
Arriving at the clinic we got a warm welcome from the people who ran it. We went inside the clinic and looked at what we were going to be dealing with. What I observed was a shock. It was not a place I would want to go to if there was something wrong with me. The place smelled, it was dirty, there was bat manure on the wall, and spider webs everywhere. We had a lot of work to do.
The next day we started our work. We thoroughly cleared the inside of the clinic. We swept the floor, and then washed everything in all the rooms. We were in different groups, some washing one room that wasn’t going to be painted, some cleaning the waiting rooms and some cleaning other rooms.
After cleaning everything, we painted the rooms of the clinic. When we were finished, the place was clean. We all had fun, we enjoyed helping people have a good clean clinic to go to. I was very happy that I could go and serve the people of Ayorou, and also that the Lord had given me this opportunity to go and serve. I have come to realize that there are a lot of people that don’t have as much as I do. I have come to realize more that it’s not about doing what I want, but about how I can help. ~Antony