The Power of Simple Ideas

Sometimes the biggest innovations are from the simplest ideas.

Cape Times recently published a story about Vignella, Italy, a quaint town with a unique problem:

        Each year, on November 11, the sun would disappear behind a 1 600-metre high mountain
        to the south, leaving it in near-total darkness for 84 days in a row.

But that problem was solved with the simplest idea when Pierfranco Midali decided to use mirrors to redirect sunlight back to his village. Using an 8 meters wide by five meters tall mirror powered by a “altazimuth” computer to move it, Midali’s simple idea is now able to provide eight hours of sunlight to Vignella’s town square each day.

Ministry is full of problems to solve. You don’t have to wait for a technological breakthrough to provide a solution. Often God has already provided you with the resources to fix it, and you just need to realize the simple solution.