We Got A Great Big Convoy

My wife, Dorcas, and her mother, Miriam, recently attended a wedding in Chimbote, Peru, a port city which is about a 6-hour bus ride north of Lima.

Dorcas and Miriam left and returned safely, thankfully, although after they returned the Peru TV news was filled with stories of armed robberies of the buses that travel between Lima and Chimbote and back. Packs of armed robbers, sometimes as many as 15 strong, shoot out the bus tires and then rob everyone on board.

In order to thwart this crime, Peruvian bus companies have banded together, and now have all their buses travel together from Lima to Chimbote and back in a convoy, one bus after another.

The philosophy of the bus companies is that there is strength in numbers, and that it is far more difficult to attack a convoy of buses than it is to attack a solitary bus.

It's the same way in church and ministry, no matter where you are located in this big world. Many times, for reasons normally related to independence or self-sufficiency or lack of trust or fear of delegation, we try to go at church or ministry by ourselves, in a solitary fashion, and usually with bad results.

God has placed the people around you for a purpose. Work together with them and see how much more you - all of you - can accomplish together, as opposed to just one person trying to do it all.

God made you for community, and He made your community so that together it can accomplish enormous things for His kingdom.

Don't do life, church, or ministry by yourself.

Build a team.

Build a community.

Get a great big convoy going.

See how much more you will accomplish together.