And that is just want Gloria did. Gloria is my friend from my School of Ministry Development. She is from Korea but lives in Canada and decided to come to Mexico. She wanted to start a recycling program on our base, so the past few months she has been collecting cardboard, cans and plastic bottles to take to recycle. In Mexico if you collect enough of these recycling items and can find a recycling center, they will pay you for your garbage.
So this weekend Gloria, Sandra (our mexican driver and amiga) and I went on an adventure to try to find a recycling center in Rosarito. We stuffed huge garbage bags and us into the pathfinder and drove around a while and finally found a place with the 3 arrows on the outside sign. We get in there and they only take metal and cardboard. Well we didnt the cardboard because it didn't fit in the car. But we did have one bag of cans and such so we turned that it and made.... (drum roll please....) 12 pesos!!
Now I know that's not alot but it wasn't about the money. It was the effort to do something proactive to get some income for the Circulo Andante kids ministry we do. And also, we really do believe in taking care of the earth God's given us. So after we got our 12 pesos, we got in the car, and prayed that God would multiply it to 12 hundred pesos or 12 thousand pesos someday. Stuffed back in the car full of trash (we only had one bag of cans among a car full of trash) and tried to find somewhere where we could take the plastic. but nothing. so we went back to the base, not disappointed but proud of our 12 pesos and pleased that we had made the effort to better our ministry, our base, and our earth.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Psalm 24:1 - The earth is the LORD's, and everything in it; the world, and all who live in it.
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Good job, a tiny one, but a good one. You have made your footprint on the Earth smaller.
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