I am a missionary. After only learning about missionaries from the olden days whose true motives were to colonize and conquer regions, this statement at first seemed inapplicable to my life. However, my feelings toward this statement completely changed after I went on my first mission trip to Nicaragua and met some villagers who will always remain dear to me.
As the child of hardworking Indian immigrants, I have lived without fear of the outside world. My dad is a physician who earns a steady income, making it so that there is always food on the table, a roof over my heads, and access to whatever I might need. I know that I am incredibly blessed to have the opportunity to live in a country where I can receive an education and live without …show more content…
A man named Abraham Maslow once created a hierarchy of needs in order to understand what motivates people. The five levels from the lowest to the highest were physiological needs such as food and water, safety, love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization. Observing the conditions that the people we interacted with lived in showed me that while I had achieved the majority of the levels on the hierarchy, the majority of the people I met couldn’t even meet their physiological needs of food and water. For two days, my group and I worked in a remote fishing village where we began building the exterior of a church and served the people living there through Vacation Bible School and prayer. The people in this village lived without electricity and running water, and most had homes made out of makeshift materials. Our first day in the village, two young boys practically “adopted” me and took me around the village giving me a glimpse into their lives. What really struck me was that even though I lived in a foreign country and had far different experiences and worries, they accepted me as one of them. They introduced me to their mom who was delighted by the fact that I could fluently converse in Spanish with her and readily welcomed me offering me both food and drink. We conversed as a group
As the child of hardworking Indian immigrants, I have lived without fear of the outside world. My dad is a physician who earns a steady income, making it so that there is always food on the table, a roof over my heads, and access to whatever I might need. I know that I am incredibly blessed to have the opportunity to live in a country where I can receive an education and live without …show more content…
A man named Abraham Maslow once created a hierarchy of needs in order to understand what motivates people. The five levels from the lowest to the highest were physiological needs such as food and water, safety, love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization. Observing the conditions that the people we interacted with lived in showed me that while I had achieved the majority of the levels on the hierarchy, the majority of the people I met couldn’t even meet their physiological needs of food and water. For two days, my group and I worked in a remote fishing village where we began building the exterior of a church and served the people living there through Vacation Bible School and prayer. The people in this village lived without electricity and running water, and most had homes made out of makeshift materials. Our first day in the village, two young boys practically “adopted” me and took me around the village giving me a glimpse into their lives. What really struck me was that even though I lived in a foreign country and had far different experiences and worries, they accepted me as one of them. They introduced me to their mom who was delighted by the fact that I could fluently converse in Spanish with her and readily welcomed me offering me both food and drink. We conversed as a group