As my time here concludes I am very impacted by how much has
happened here. Some things have been just what I expected and others have been
nothing like. My team’s ministry has not been what we expected. It has been
better.
We have had the privilege of getting
to know a single mom of five kids and help her around her house to get some
things done and just hang out with her and the kiddos. She is an amazing
person, a strong follower of Christ, and an example of Godly kindness. As seems
to be the theme here on the world race, I think she has blessed us more than we
could hope to bless her.
I have also gotten to see so many
things here and experience so many places that it really feels like sensory
overload. I’m sure I will reflect on these things and places for years to come.
My big sightseeing finale will come tomorrow when I and a few squad mates will
get to go into Jordan and
visit the old city of Petra.
I am really excited to get to see it.
As some of you may know, I will be
flying home for a few days to be at my brother’s wedding. I am glad to be able
to do this and am thankful that the Lord has made it possible. I will be flying
back to Cairo, Egypt
to meet up with the squad for a day at the Pyramids before a late night flight
down to Kenya.
It is awesome to me the way the Lord is fulfilling his promise that I would get
to see the Pyramids in Egypt
and also go to Jordan.
It is not in the ways I expected at the beginning but it has come in the way
that the Lord promised. “Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven
and all these things will be added to you.” I have gotten to visit more
countries and places that I did not expect and now I am getting to see the ones
I did expect after all.
Well I will say farewell for the
last time from Israel.
Happy Hanukkah and Shabbat Shalom.
