This past weekend we enjoyed spending time with some of our nearest and dearest friends. I got my first ever manual driving lesson - oh what an experience that was! { For those wanting to learn I highly recommend finding a teacher who remembers which pedal is the clutch! :0) } We took our children to chuck-*-cheese {a place I utterly can't stand} and had a BLAST acting like kids ourselves. See.... I don't have a picture of my kids with the big mouse but here I am with him!
We even found Bruster's {a yummy ice-cream some ministry friends of our introduced us to this summer} and enjoyed HUGE ice cream cones because it was raining and the second scoop was free! We had a grand time!
We were even were given the opportunity to share the calling God has placed on our lives. In Sunday School that morning we studied a passage in Nehemiah. The chances of us turning to this passage on our own wasn't very likely; however, God put us where we needed to be to learn from it. The passage was Nehemiah 2: 5-20 A brief synopsis is that Nehemiah heard about the problem in Jerusalem {city was a mess the walls needed to be rebuilt} so he snuck in the night to survey the damage and to see what needed to be done. Nehemiah then got people involved to get the work done that God had called him to do, despite those around him who didn't exactly believe what he was trying to do was possible.
Isn't it amazing how God puts you exactly where you need to be in life?
I wrote the other day about how we are currently trying to raise support to go on a 2-3 week mission trip to Africa. This passage sheds light on exactly where we are. Just like Nehemiah heard about the problem in Jerusalem we have heard about the problem in Africa. There is no one to teach and mentor the children as they transition into adulthood. They are not being ministered to in those crucial teen years... The picture of Nehemiah surveying the damage in Jerusalem in the night is a picture of what we are trying to do when we go to Africa for a few weeks. We will be going to see for ourselves what is being done and what is being left undone. In a sense we will be going 'in the night' as well because we have decided not to share with my family what exactly we will be doing or where we are going. {I feel confidently that I can speak about this publicly online and my Mom never find out because she NEVER gets online. If you read this and you know my Mom please refrain from turning the light on for her. We will tell her after we make a final decision as to what EXACTLY God is calling us to. Trust me, its better not to get her panties in a wad over maybe's and possibilities....} Anyways, in the passage Nehemiah goes on to get people involved to get the work done & actively did what God had called him to do. I suppose we will be there soon, but for now we are preparing to go into the night.
If you want to support us in this decision please pray for us. Pray that we will not take a step in any direction that is not exactly where God wants us. Pray that we will be able to get into different churches and share our calling and raise monetary support quickly. Can we come to YOUR church? {We can't get to Africa quick enough!} We really REALLY appreciate your prayers.
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