Something that I have loved learning on this trip while
going around the world is what family is.
I wish I could say this is all, but this is just MOST of my immediate family.
And the cousins and Jay.
We meet all of
these different people from all over, but it is as if we are family before we
ever meet. I had never realized
the bond we have in Jesus, which is all because of his blood. It’s great to walk into a church in
Kenya or Romania and feel the same love and care that I get at my home church
in Loveland, Colorado. Even though
we have never met, we are all parts of the same body. You can tell the body by their love, just like the song,
they will know we are Christians by are love and it’s true. When we follow Christ he gives us a
piece of his heart for the body.
We are able to love others like he does. We love because he loved us.
In Tanzania we had the Sangas who opened their home to us
and loved us just like we were their kids.
Ukraine we were with the Ferdon’s, and Forest became a
brother, his kids could have been my niece and nephew.
In Romania we worked with two people from New Zealand for a
few days, and working with them was not “Americans working with kiwis with
Romanians,” but a body of Christians.
Just the other day one of my sisters told our parents that
my family was going through a hard time, and one of our family friends wrote me an e-mail of encouragement.
I’ve never met this person, but we are united in one body.
Thanks for all of your support!
If you could all keep my family in your prayers we lost a
cousin last week to suicide and hearts need mending.
