This weekend's missions conference at my church was a great source of encouragement to me, as I prepare for Africa. Ronnie Stevens, who is a missionary we support in Hungary, spoke about what kind of person it takes to be a missionary. He said, "a plane ride never made a missionary". I need to be living the way I hope to live in Africa....now. I ought to be serving people, loving people well and faithful in prayer. I feel very inadequate to be serving these children and giving them anything that I have. However, I am glad I feel this way. It reminds me of the humbling truth that apart from the Lord, I don't have anything to give. I have to depend on Him, and not on myself.
I am anxious to see how the Lord continues to prepare us to go and do His work in June.
This blog will follow Jenny, Bruce and me as we prepare and travel to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania for the month of June. We will be working in a school for orphaned children on weekdays and hope to do some traveling on the weekends. We hope that you will check our blog periodically to stay up to date on our amazing opportunity to serve The Lord and His people in this way.
Other blogs to check out:
Jenny
Bruce
Lauren
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"The Lord is King for ever and ever;
the nations will perish from his land.
You hear, O Lord, the desire of the afflicted;
you encourage them, and you listen to their cry,
defending the fatherless and the oppressed,
in order that man, who is of the earth,
may terrify no more."
Psalm 10:16-18
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