May 16th - Afternoon | SERVANTS CHANGING THE WORLD

Luke 22:26 – “those who are the greatest should take the lowest rank, and the leader should be like a servant.”

There’s a story about translator Doug Meland and his wife working with a village of Brazil’s Fulnio Indians. Sadly, the Fulnio received the Melands negatively and called Doug, “the white man,” because other white men had come and exploited these Indians, burning their homes, and robbing them of their lands. The Melands stayed focused, learned the Fulnio language and began to help the villagers with medicines and with new ways of doing things, and the Fulnio began calling Doug “the respectable white man.” When the Melands began adapting to the local customs of the people, the Fulnio began calling Doug, “the white Indian.” One day, Doug washed the dirty, blood caked foot of an injured Fulnio boy and the villagers said, “Whoever heard of a white man washing an Indian’s foot before?” From that day on, whenever Doug would go into a Fulnio home, he would be announced with, “Here comes the man God sent us.” Because of the Melands efforts to serve their mission field first, the people of a remote part of the world were changed. Servants really can change the world.