What’s going on Family!!!
How’s life???
Well…here we are the 8th of April. I remember arriving in Africa and stepping off the plane back in January thinking…Wow!!! Lord, what are we going to do here?!? I was so excited to be here…so excited to meet all the people i knew I would eventually meet…so excited to get the opportunity to think back the 4 1/2 years ago when I spoke with the Lord concerning coming here to Africa and to fast forward to the now time and think…wow!! God, You really brought me here!! These few months that I’ve been here have been a major eye opener on many levels of life.
This journey has unfolded some of the most amazing happenings. Maybe they are not the big and grand things that come with the lights and huge announcements. Maybe they are not the big things that would make it to the 5, 6, and 10 news. Maybe they are not the big things that would make the major headlines of major news papers. But my concern is not that what I do or what my team does is announced. My concern is that God is at the beginning of what we are doing, that He’s in the center of what we are doing and that He is at the end. My concern is that we are recognized by God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. My concern is that what we do is through the empowerment of the Holy Spirit.
Looking back over the last couple of months, I can see how God was truely with us. From taking care of little Moses, to ministering at the hospitals, to taking multiple trips down to Nsoko to where the carepoints and orphanges were, and to just sitting with each other, having a meal and laughing together. God was in it all!! I can’t find the words to say how much God has blessed my life in just being here.
My biggest joy on this journey so far has been giving hugs to the children, holding them, laughing with them, trying to communicate with them. My biggest joy has been loving the mothers and grandmothers of the children. My biggest joy has been taking pictures of the kids as they ambush me to see all the photos. My biggest joy has been working together with the world race teams that are here. My biggest joy has been sleeping in tents for days and weeks at a time even though it wasn’t the most comfortable. My biggest joy has been serving and giving of my time and energy so that others may be blessed. My biggest joy has been watching the sunset behind the mountains. My biggest joy has been playing cards with my team mates. And although there is more that I could mention my biggest joy, even over all of these things is knowing that God was right in the midst of it all.
Now we are preparing to go to Mozambique in less than an hour. We will be there for about a week. Soon we will be headed to Central America. I never thought I would go there…not this soon in my life anyways. I never thought I’d come to Africa…even though it was always a major desire in my heart.
So for now, the journey through Africa is nearly to an end. Soon, new adventures will unfold as we journey through Central America. Just as it has been here in Africa, I pray it will be the same in Central America…that we continually go with God…not in our own strength or might…not in our own giftings and qualifications, but fully surrendered to God, knowing that it’s not by might, not by power, but by His Spirit!!!
Keep us in your prayers, Family!!
I look forward to telling you about the adventures of Mozambique!!
Much Love to you all!!
~~Traday~~
p.s. ENJOY THE JOURNEY!!!!
