An Organic and Bio Mission

The VQC Mission has gone through different stages. We have always asked God what does He want us to do. And In fact he always tells us in many ways what is next. Around a month ago I got a little depressed feeling that our mission was one more regular church or institution full of rituals or just one more organization. I was so disappointed that I wanted to cancel our services on Sunday while I was waiting for His voice to speak to us.

That same weekend we received a call from one of our best pastor friends from San Jose, he wanted to visited us with his son and another pastor Tracy from Arkansas, they arrived that Sunday February 4th, It was actually Daniel birthday, of course we asked them to minister our congregation and they did. Pastor Jose from san Jose was translating for Pastor Tracy from US. Their word and spirit was direct to my heart. Next Monday Pastor Jose sat down with me and told me about his experience in his recent trip to Africa and Europe, he said that sitting down on a train, the Lord asked him to go to England. He then went and found about very peculiar church, what they called “Organic Church”. As soon as I heard the term I was completely inspired by his words. He mentioned that sitting at our mission service he felt we were running an organic institution.

After that, I have been praying and having different meeting with all the people that work for us at VQC Mission (www.vqcmission.com) and at Christian Immersion Spanish Academy (www.cisacostarica.com) and telling all of them about changing our whole organization to become organic.

But what is organic?

Well, the good thing is that we don’t necessarily need to know exactly what it is. That is the main reason why it is so special. I don’t know all about it, but together with God I am discovering step by step what it is about it.

A week after talking to our pastor friend, I received a call from a lady that recently started coming to our services on Sunday, she is not from the area but from san Jose like us, but she is living and working with her husband in Tuis. I answered the phone and said “hello what can I do for you?”, she replied and said: “no, the question is what can I do for you?”. I was shocked. She said I want to serve God at your mission, tell me what should I do. Very interesting.

In most churches probably a 20% of the whole congregation does something for the institution, but what about the other 80%. So then, to me an organic mission should be a place in which 80% are functional, and 20% are learning to become functional.

Up to now I think that the main characteristics of an organic mission are the following:

No artificial Ingredients

XXI century began with the concept of organic, most of the products we now consume could be organic, and it means that not artificial fertilizer or any other elements were added to our product but natural stuff.
Taking this concept we can define an organic institution as a creative organization enriched by the ideas and projects born in the heart of its members.
There can be thousands of good ideas from other organizations, however, definitely the ideas that come from our members show a real desire fro the organization to prosper because the organization is themselves.

Later I am going to write more about this, give me time, and develop the following.

• A more expensive product
• A healthier product
• Organic requires more work
• God loves life
• Life all through the bible
• A BIO Mission
• Becoming organic

Talk to you later.