Reflections

We just dropped our last team of the month off at the airport.  They had an early flight this morning.  These have been three different but great weeks.  I have discovered that each team and each week of ministry are very unique and have their own sets of joys and challenges!  God works through each of them in different ways and continues to surprise us with how He works and changes lives.

Our first week, we were at Life is Hope Orphanage and the team was very energetic and passionate about working and loving on kids.  They were a blessing to work with!  Our second week was spent moving a lot of blocks at Mariani to build the walls of the church.  The team was willing and determined to see progress in their work and in their relationships with the children and workers.  This last week was also spent at Mariani with a joy filled youth group who worked quickly to pass buckets of concrete to pour the columns in the walls of the church and took the time to love on the children.

Each week of ministry was a blessing.  Each team was a blast to work with.  God is truly amazing in bringing people together to accomplish His purposes.  All of this ministry is done under the guidance and leadership of the local church, so the partnership is always there--the Body of Christ truly coming together.

These were the first three of many trips Al and I will be leading this year.  We know that each one will have challenges and each one will be exactly as God wants it to be.  He is the One who is working here.  We are just serving Him.  How refreshing to remember that He is God!  He can do ALL things!

Friends, be praying for us as we continue to grow together.  Pray for us as we have a couple of days of rest before meeting with more pastors, churches, and organizations to make more partnerships and set up the trips for the summer.  Each season is exciting, but I am looking forward to hearing the vision that God has laid on each pastor's heart and talking about how a potential partnership could encourage them in that vision.  These next two weeks--before our next set of trips--are going to be exciting!  Pray that God would guide our conversations and our steps.  Pray that He would give us wisdom. He is God!