Slide Show Compilation Of Our Trip
Friday, November 27, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009
Back Home
It seems so strange to think that this blog is done... for now. I just can't help but add a few more details and thoughts. The flights home were uneventful, but the good-bye at the airport with Martires and Jose was tearful. We will miss our brothers until we see them again. It seemed so wrong to be in the climate controlled, mostly sanitized airport terminal. The mud, dirt, chickens, plants, bugs, creatures and especially the people of Sierra Prieta had come so quickly to feel like home.
We made easy connections in the airports and spent long lay-overs speaking of new memories, new ideas and opportunities. Each team member had important perspectives on what we should remember, what we should share and what we can do to be better prepared next time. We are particularly excited about what we can do to share our experiences with those on the team who did not travel with us, but prayed faithfully and hoped for God's blessing constantly.
The drive home from Billings started off at about 11:45 and was uneventful until some deer teamed up to put an end to the radiator on Terry's minivan. This extended our arrival at home by a few hours, but thanks to Jerry and the Wolff's minivan we made it home in time to close our eyes for a few hours before heading off in our respective directions.
As I sat at work this morning sorting through 150 emails and 800 in the spam folder, I was struck by how normal life was again already. Mail to sort and calls to return. Contracts to process and the list goes on. Then I glimpsed a picture of myself with Christopher, our sponsored child, and I was there again in the blessed humidity seeing God work in a way that seems so far off.
God is not far off and it does not take extreme circumstances to see him work. I think it is more in the looker, for God is always at work, his Spirit is always tugging at hearts. It just takes extreme faith from normal people in an extraordinary God to gain the vision necessary to see Him in action.
Almighty God, bring our focus to you in the mundane so that we will have sight of the revolutionary things you are doing around us all the time.
YOU ARE SO LOVED!!
We made easy connections in the airports and spent long lay-overs speaking of new memories, new ideas and opportunities. Each team member had important perspectives on what we should remember, what we should share and what we can do to be better prepared next time. We are particularly excited about what we can do to share our experiences with those on the team who did not travel with us, but prayed faithfully and hoped for God's blessing constantly.
The drive home from Billings started off at about 11:45 and was uneventful until some deer teamed up to put an end to the radiator on Terry's minivan. This extended our arrival at home by a few hours, but thanks to Jerry and the Wolff's minivan we made it home in time to close our eyes for a few hours before heading off in our respective directions.
As I sat at work this morning sorting through 150 emails and 800 in the spam folder, I was struck by how normal life was again already. Mail to sort and calls to return. Contracts to process and the list goes on. Then I glimpsed a picture of myself with Christopher, our sponsored child, and I was there again in the blessed humidity seeing God work in a way that seems so far off.
God is not far off and it does not take extreme circumstances to see him work. I think it is more in the looker, for God is always at work, his Spirit is always tugging at hearts. It just takes extreme faith from normal people in an extraordinary God to gain the vision necessary to see Him in action.
Almighty God, bring our focus to you in the mundane so that we will have sight of the revolutionary things you are doing around us all the time.
YOU ARE SO LOVED!!
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