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.