Fellowship Memphis

Pictured are Jorge and Ginny Enciso (far right) with a Fellowship Global team outside of Josephina’s home in Bogotá, Colombia.

June of last year my wife and I were blessed to be part of the mission team in Bogotá, where we served in Jorge Enciso’s church and community. We were blessed to know Jorge and Ginny Enciso when they attended Fellowship Memphis. When they were led back to their native Columbia, it was only natural that Fellowship would support them as they took on leadership roles in their church home.

In Bogotá , we not only experienced energetic worship in another language and culture but we helped provide discipleship workshops for their members. This helps equip them with a fresh perspective on building relationships with those around them in ways that illustrate the teachings of the gospel.

The other way we served was by getting up at 5am every morning and going about an hour and a half to the slums of South Bogotá to help renovate the home of a little old lady named Josephina. They were long days of hard work, but they were worth it. We made a difference in her life and the lives of all her neighbors. The girls on our team also worked with all the neighborhood children by teaching English, coloring, and playing with them.

Coming home was strange. There is a part of both of us that will be forever changed. There is a part of us that is at peace with the satisfaction of serving, but there is also a part us that is torn and broken with the knowledge of the reality of what a life of true poverty looks like. If you could see what we saw; feel what we felt, then you would be filled with the longing and desire to do more for all those around you who have less. Along with this awareness, inspiration, and feeling of change, we both feel an amazing shift in our relationship with God. It is this new shift that excites us at the possibilities of serving further in whatever He may place in our path.