Tomorrow is the day!

We will arrive in our new home around 1:00 p.m. our time, 7 a.m. EST.  The air around us is filled with anticipation.  We are so READY...

READY to launch ourselves into this new life

               READY to see this new place, this new home of ours

                              READY to meet new friends

                                             READY to grow to love new foods

                                                            READY to embrace a new culture.

Re-routing us through eastern Africa is one of those things that only a loving and all-wise Father would choose for His children.  Being here with other colleagues and like-minded workers from Asia and the Middle East and all over Africa has been both encouraging and challenging.  What a wonderful way for us to start this new term of service!  On this 4th day of March will you join us in talking with the Father about these 4 things?

1. Praise Him for the beauty and majesty and mystery of His creation.  We have awakened to sounds of birds singing in the trees.  We’ve enjoyed a safari walk literally alongside giraffes and zebras. We’ve basked in the coolness of the mountaintop and found ourselves breathless in the thin air as we walked back and forth to our room. 
   
   
2. Thank Him for excellent teaching.  These two weeks of training led primarily by a brother and sister from the great Bayou State (just gotta get a plug in for my home J) have been filled with challenging truth and reminders:
   
   

          when we follow Him, we FISH

   
   

       when we follow Him, we DENY OURSELVES and TAKE UP OUR CROSS DAILY.

   
   Talk to him about these two things today if you’re His follower.  Reflect on how these truths are daily played out in your life.

   
   

   
   
3. Pray that we will begin right away to clearly hear all the nuances of the Lingala language and that our 50-something feeble minds will remember vocabulary and decipher grammar.
   
   
4. Ask Him to direct our thoughts and steps when we set foot off the plane on Saturday.  We want to see places and people through His eyes and to be keenly aware of those that He has prepared to hear His message.  Ask Him to open doors for us to share His mystery.

Tomorrow is the day.  We count on your prayers on this incredible journey of following, of fishing, of self-denial, of cross-bearing.

Much love,

Kathy and Jay