Bleacher section

I read Jn 4.37-38 and I get it

I get it because I have BTDT—been there, done that.

For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’

I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor.

Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.

When we moved into Porvenir, it was ripe and ready.

The area had first been settled decades earlier by Molokan Russians—a pacifist, Protestant group fleeing czarist persecution in their homeland.

I believe that their practices and their prayers over the decades gave birth to what took place shortly after Marcos’ and Veronica’s arrival to this community in 1981.

We saw such an abundant move of God amongst the teens in particular.

We have often said that we felt like we were just spectators in the bleachers watching the action that God was bringing to pass down on the playing field.

Others had labored; we just happened to move into the right place at the right time.

We reaped what others sowed.