God will come through

As much as it is a cool season as I recently shared. It is also a very draining season. Lots of meetings, dinners, packing, busyness in general. I know from past experience that when we are the most tired, exposed, and plain feeling wore out that is when God can come through the strongest. I know if I had everything come easy I would begin looking at how cool I am instead of how much I need God. It feels strange to say this but I am thankful God takes us to the end of ourselves and beyond. It really is when I don't believe things will work out, or I don't have anything left that God is proved most faithful, most real. I wonder if we could come to the point where we absolutely are reliant on God and not worried at all about life's circumstances. Would God simply meet needs daily without the slightest stress on our parts. Like the daisies or the birds would we simply daily glorify God without a thought or stress as to how things might work. I really want to be in that place but it seems every time I begin to get there I start becoming self reliant once again and the Lord is forced to stretch me one more time.

Cool season

We are really blessed as we are in this season of support raising. People are extremely gracious and many are excited to partner with us in what the Lord is doing. Sometimes we forget what a big family we have in the Lord until you begin to do something you can´t do on your own. We want everyone to know that being a sender is just as glorifying to God and just as vital as someone willing to go. Maybe more so. We appreciate the tremendous support and love we have received in this last year.

School is almost done, we have learned a lot. We am ready to go. As scary as the idea of learning a new culture and language is we are excited to get started on our next leg of this journey.

Tobasco park

One night when we were in Mexico we had the opportunity to present the gospel in the city park in Tobasco. It was an amazing night full of opposition. Our tape player for the drama broke, we began to fight, we disagreed with our host pastor. God came through, the gospel was preached, people got saved, people were fed and clothed. God is good.

Julio has come home and seems to continue to find success as an evangelist. We went to the OSU campus together with a few students from my bible school. He led 2 people to the Lord just yesterday.

Support

So many of you want to contribute prayerfully, financially, and in effort. I want to say thank you. It is encouraging as we step out in faith to receive confirmation from friends and family that this is what the Lord is doing in our life. Thank you all so much.

Slideshow of Mexico trip

Tobasco, the harvest is ready

What a cool place. Tobasco a little farming town just across the border. People here are farm workers and don’t make a lot of money but they do have a healthy joy. It was amazing to get another opportunity to go to Tobasco and share a message with my friends at Aqua Viva. Pastor Alfredo is a wonderful man that has a huge heart for the people in his church, city, and surrounding villages. People there are ready to hear the gospel, respond and his church is ready to disciple them. He is readying the men in his church to start bible studies or house churches in the small villages around where there is no church.

Personally I was humbled when he shared with Melissa and I that him and his church had been faithfully praying for us this last year. So much has happened in our life since we went there. It was the point we realized now is the time to go. It was the beginning of our preparing to go this July. Here is this little church, in a little town, with so much of their own needs and we have been blessed to be lifted in prayer by them. We don’t deserve it, we don’t deserve such a loving beautiful God.

 

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