Farming for the Lord?

Hello lovely people!

     Recently our ministry has been unique to what we have been used to. We have been working with Global Food Providers, helping them to plant and harvest produce. AKA LOTS OF FRESH VEGGIES! 🙂 The company is working hard to combat starvation and malnutrition not only in the community we live in here in Panama but all over the world. They even teach classes in person and online, about how to maintain a garden and plant crops to sustain communities and villages. Everything on the farm is all organic and a portion of it is harvested to give the community nutritious foods. The older produce is harvested and dehydrated, then made into superfood powders. I love the dehydration process, because nothing goes to waste and 40% of the worlds produce goes to waste because it goes bad before it is able to be eaten. The powder can then be added to rice and other foods for added vitamins and even protein. The superfood powders will last for years and that powder with rice alone could sustain you forever if that was all you ever ate. Each day we are at the farm, we get to take part in harvesting, pulling weeds, planting seeds or dehydrating. Aside from all of the farm work we do, we also get to go out into the community and take part in door to door evangelism. During our evangelism and outreach, we give out plants like Moringa (full of vitamins and 26% protein) and in return we ask if there is anything they need prayer for. The most beautiful part of this ministry to me; we get to plant physical and spiritual seeds. We have gotten to see the product of our physical seeds we have planted within a few weeks in the form of beautiful green sprouts. The spiritual seeds are much different, we don’t usually get to see the products of what we plant. For my team in particular; God didn’t call us to be the harvester, he has just called us to plant the seeds. We’ve gotten to have lots of impactful conversations and prayer over families that I wouldn’t trade for the world. Even though we can’t always see results from our ministries, it doesn’t make it any less important. As long as we plant the seeds, God will do the rest in sending others to water and eventually harvest with the gift of salvation. The greatest part of all of this, is that we can plant seeds anywhere in the world without having to work on a farm. God has called us all to till the fields, prep the grounds, plant the seeds and harvest them. Never forget, if you are a child of God then you are also a farmer for the Lord. Don’t neglect your fields and the crops that you’ve been given. 

-Also keep my team in your prayers… as of yesterday, we have one month exactly left on the field until we return to the US. Thanks for all the prayer & support! Check out these cool verses down below all about planting and harvesting!

                                                                 Much Love,

                                                                          Erika Talley

Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.

2 Corinthians 9:10

 

Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

Galatians 6:8

 

Then the Lord will bless you with rain at planting time. There will be wonderful harvests and plenty of pastureland for your livestock.

Isaiah 30:23

 

They may sprout on the day you set them out; yes, they may blossom on the very morning you plant them, but you will never pick any grapes from them. Your only harvest will be a load of grief and unrelieved pain.

Isaiah 17:11