You haven't truly gone through a traumatic experience until you have dealt with your first child's stomach bug. Absolutely no concept of running to the toilet or garbage can, will leave quite a mess on your hands, well and everywhere else! Cade is recovering from his first stomach bug, and doing quite well now. He never really acted like he felt bad, it was a time where I got to learn a little bit about life from him.
The first time he was sick, he just sat in it and talked happily for about 15 minutes. This was because he was in the back seat, and we had no clue, then we discovered he had thrown up. We as humans can be like that so many times. Just sitting in our own filth, and not even realizing it. Cade needed someone to tell him about his mess, clean him up, and help him into new clothes. Isnt it awesome how the Holy Spirit does that with us? He reveals our sin, through Christs work we are cleaned, and now we walk in the new clothes of the spirit.
The last couple of weeks have also flown by, mainly because we have spent roughly 120 hours completly devoted to our support raising. It has averaged out to about 60 hours a week. Praise the Lord that we do not have to worry about having a second job!
The other day as I was doing some things to prepare for our next prayer letter, I realized some daunting statistics. There are 91 million people in Central Asia, only one half of one percent know Christ!! Only 455,000 people in this area of the world larger than the US know our wonderful Lord and saviour!!! If this is not a ripe field, I do not know what is.
Finally, in my personal time with the Lord lately, I have really been pursuing and intimate understanding of the Kingdom of God. Not just to know it, but to communicate it, to live in it, and not become crippled by thinking it is only a thing of the future. The most incredible thing that I have found so far, is that the Greek root word for Kingdom is walk or pace. When the Bible is telling us to seek first the kingdom, it is not telling us to seek after a place we go when we die, but, in context, it is saying dont worry about life, dont worry about what circumstances have befallen you, seek his kingdom in your walk!!!Pursue Righteousness, Pursue holiness, pursue His fame on the earth. Dont just become downcast and say woe is me, but love others in spite of those things, provide whatever you can for a brother, or unbeliever in need, do as Christ did and go and meet the people where they are at. That is where we find the kingdom, that is where our walk takes us.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
God's Abundance
Wow!!! I honestly did not thing I would be making a post the day after making the initial one, but hear I am!!!It is quite a lengthy story, and I dont want to name any names because many of you who made this possible will be reading this, but God showed up today!
In one day a lone , we raised 10% of our monthly support. What a rich blessing!!!!God is so great!!God has an amazing plan for Central Asia. This is obvious. He wants to work in these peoples heart to raise up a great movement of His people there. As more people continue to be faithful, the closer we get to sharing Christ with Central Asians!!Please continue to take this journey with us as we have already seen God's fingerprint today!!
Also, dont forget to let us know how we can pray for you.
In one day a lone , we raised 10% of our monthly support. What a rich blessing!!!!God is so great!!God has an amazing plan for Central Asia. This is obvious. He wants to work in these peoples heart to raise up a great movement of His people there. As more people continue to be faithful, the closer we get to sharing Christ with Central Asians!!Please continue to take this journey with us as we have already seen God's fingerprint today!!
Also, dont forget to let us know how we can pray for you.
Monday, February 5, 2007
Starting Out
Well our family has returned from a month of new staff training in Daytona Beach Florida. Word on the street is that we are official. We are exhausted and trying to recover from a long, but fruitful experience. We are so thankful for the past months experience. Let me share with everyone just one in particular.
It had already been a long day when we were traveling into Daytona Beach. We were ready to get to our hotel and crash, however, this would be far from what would actually happen. None of our bags showed up in Daytona, and we had to stand in line forever trying to sort everything out. We left in a cab headed for our hotel. Things had to be on the way up right? We would get to go to our room and not have it cluttered with a bunch of our stuff, and we were on the beach, sounds great right? Well as we stepped out of the taxi we realized there was something missing that should not be. Our laptop case was missing. Gone. Not in our possession. In the case was obviously, a laptop, my new XM radio I had received for Christmas, a portable DVD player, and some other small things.
Monica was devastated, and so was I. With a baby that was becoming increasingly fussy, I left Monica behind at the hotel, going in faith that our laptop bag was just sitting somewhere near baggage claim. I prayed and prayed that the Lord would perform a miracle. He was planning on it all along, but it would not happen that night. I spent almost three hours there filling out a police report, looking under and behind everything. I returned empty handed and feeling quite dejected.
Remember however, that God did have a miracle planned. Over the next few weeks we began to process our claim with our insurance company. The thing with them was that, having just sold our house, we did not think our home owners insurance would cover it, but they did, and we got a check for everything. Most of us would think well that figures, that is how it should be. Here is the amazing thing. We learned that we could reimburse the purchase of a new computer through our new staff position with Crusade. This meant that the insurance check we recieved could be put away to help us through our time of support raising.
I encourage you to read this blog as much as you can. God is going to be doing things on a pretty regular basis, and I would love to be a blessing to everyone by sharing these stories with you. Until next time, Praise Him who blesses all the time according to His will and timing which is infinatly greater than any other way we could have designed it.
It had already been a long day when we were traveling into Daytona Beach. We were ready to get to our hotel and crash, however, this would be far from what would actually happen. None of our bags showed up in Daytona, and we had to stand in line forever trying to sort everything out. We left in a cab headed for our hotel. Things had to be on the way up right? We would get to go to our room and not have it cluttered with a bunch of our stuff, and we were on the beach, sounds great right? Well as we stepped out of the taxi we realized there was something missing that should not be. Our laptop case was missing. Gone. Not in our possession. In the case was obviously, a laptop, my new XM radio I had received for Christmas, a portable DVD player, and some other small things.
Monica was devastated, and so was I. With a baby that was becoming increasingly fussy, I left Monica behind at the hotel, going in faith that our laptop bag was just sitting somewhere near baggage claim. I prayed and prayed that the Lord would perform a miracle. He was planning on it all along, but it would not happen that night. I spent almost three hours there filling out a police report, looking under and behind everything. I returned empty handed and feeling quite dejected.
Remember however, that God did have a miracle planned. Over the next few weeks we began to process our claim with our insurance company. The thing with them was that, having just sold our house, we did not think our home owners insurance would cover it, but they did, and we got a check for everything. Most of us would think well that figures, that is how it should be. Here is the amazing thing. We learned that we could reimburse the purchase of a new computer through our new staff position with Crusade. This meant that the insurance check we recieved could be put away to help us through our time of support raising.
I encourage you to read this blog as much as you can. God is going to be doing things on a pretty regular basis, and I would love to be a blessing to everyone by sharing these stories with you. Until next time, Praise Him who blesses all the time according to His will and timing which is infinatly greater than any other way we could have designed it.
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