Pastor Kris

A story about Pastor Kris.
Our mission team had gone to visit a school called “Fitsinjo.” It’s a school for the poor, the Blind, the Deaf, or the disabled. The teachers are all unpaid volunteers. Just regular folks who are trying to help these disadvantaged kids. While we were there on our initial visit, checking on the status of the deaf children, the team noticed that the fence was broken. Pastor Phillip immediately pulled money out of his pocket to purchase the materials needed to rebuild the fence. Sebastian, the maintenance man, was elated!

The mission team planned to return to do the work themselves, but word of our project got out to Pastor Kris, and he showed up with an attitude to pound sand and take names. Pastor Kris volunteered for the HARDEST job-- pounding all the dull fence posts into the hard ground. Without the proper tools and leverage, the brute force required was staggering. But Pastor Kris would not be swayed. Everyone took notice of his dedication and commitment to work so incredibly hard. His servant heart would not quit!

“People may doubt what you say, but they’ll believe what you do.” -Lewis Cass

The team worked from morning to lunch. They repaired the broken fence, fixed the broken swing, boarded over the stagnant puddles beneath the swings, and more. When the work was done, Sebastian the maintenance man said the team had accomplished in one morning what it would have taken him 3 weeks to complete alone. Before leaving Pastor Kris asked Maxim, the man who was partially in charge of the school, if he could invite the children to attend summer vacation bible school at his church. While Maxim, a nonbeliever, was not keen on the group speaking about Jesus directly to the children, after being so impressed by Pastor Kris’s spirit he invited Pastor Kris to put up flyers for the vacation bible school when the time came. And just like that, a little invisible door was opened, for God to move through.