We are all in Antigua. All 50 or so of us. The plan is for my team to leave Saturday morning for the site we will be at for the entire month.
We are currently debating and waiting on God to tell us where to go for the month. The two places we are thinking are:
- to stay here in Antigua and do some language school stuff so that we can converse with these people and the people we will meet from now until the end of April or so. Not sure what else we would do ministry wise, but the options are pretty much endless here. There’s lots of kids ministries, tons of tourists that are here to party and lots of other stuff that I’m not sure what they are.
- the second option is to head up to Livingston or Puerto Barrios up on the carribbean coast. A few of us on the team are possibly feeling led to go up there, (one feels pretty clearly led to go up there). We’re not real sure what kind of ministry we would do up there but, the AIM contact here knows someone up there that he’d hook us up with.
So pray for us as we continue to pray and seek God’s direction in where to go.
One thing we’ve been realizing is that God will totally use us wherever we go, so I guess that takes away some of the pressure…but still.
As for me and God…
…it’s goin pretty well. I’ve been remaining pretty consistent with my daily time with him. And that kinda seems like an elementary thing to learn, but I’ve never been good with being consistent with quiet times with God. So praise God that He’s getting it ingrained in me right now.
My mom sent me an email within the last week, and one thing that she wrote to me that has really stuck out is,
‘God cares more about who you are, than what you do.’ And it’s so true! Sometimes you just need to think of something in a different way and it hits you. Ya know?
This morning I spent some time with God again. I didn’t really feel like reading much. So I prayed for a little while, and then felt like maybe I should read some Psalms. So I ended up reading the first 40 verses of Psalm 119. Didn’t get much out of it…but then decided to read on a little further and sure enough verse 41 kinda jumped out at me:
“Lord, show me your love, and save me as you have promised.”
I would say that one of the common themes or trends of my life with Christ has been that I have rarely felt like I really feel God. I know he loves me…but I just seldom really feel like I feel his love. Ya know? So…that verse really spoke to me, and I don’t really ever find verses like that spontaneously that that jump out at me. So it was cool.
Continue to pray for our team. Pray that Josh will transition well to our team. I am really confident and at peace with his switch to our team, but still pray. Continue to pray for team unity as well that we will continue to get to know each other better and understand each other even better.
How crazy is this! The Yukon is definitely up by Alaska! FAR AWAY FROM GUATEMALA!!!!!
STAY TUNED…..for pics from the volcano tomorrow and stories of wherever we end up. but i’m definitely not planning on blogging for like a week!
I’ve been spending way too much time on the computer the last couple days. yesterday it was all spent on downloading and installing some new Virus protection stuff and it just took forever. SO….all the pictures I’ve taken up till now are in PICTURES YO……
I”M OUT!
