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Rwanda Preparation Update

Thanks to everyone who has been praying for us and offering financial support for our trip! I have gotten several requests for updates...so here we go!

• Clay and I are officially vaccinated! Yes, the rumors are true. The injections made me woozy and I was forced to lie on the floor in the nurse's office with my feet elevated while she siphoned Coke down my throat. Awesome.
  
  
• We met as a whole team for the first time on August 11. It was a great time of getting to know the others going, and hearing their hearts for Rwanda/Africa/the orphan/missions. God has assembled an incredible team for this trip, and I am looking forward to the relationships that will be cultivated through this experience.
  
  
• God has blessed us through many of you with nearly $2000 in funds! Our current balance is approximately $3000. If you feel led to help join our team of Senders by supporting us financially or in prayer, please email/call/Facebook message me or Clay and we'll get you the info. We praise God for His provision thus far, and trust Him as He continues to make a way for us to serve Him abroad.

Again, we covet your prayers in this time as we prepare for this ministry. We are excited to see how God uses us in the lives of the Rwandans, and how God transforms us in the process. To God be the glory!



Africa New Life Ministries logo and photo from www.africanewlife.org

We're going to RWANDA!

More details to come soon. But the short of is we are going on a trip to Rwanda over the Thanksgiving holiday. I'm looking forward to being back in Africa, serving alongside my husband, and spending time with friends and families from Regents outside of school.

Mulungu ni wambweno (God is good! - that Nyanga...I guess I'll need to learn some Kinyarwanda...they are from the Bantu family, but not closely related!)

http://africanewlife.org/

Called

Seriously praying about Africa.

1. Listen to the sermon from 5/16 here ---> Radical Missiology

2. Check out the 100 People Network here ---> 100 People Network

So Great a Cloud of Witnesses

I love the Book of Hebrews. We are wrapping it up in Bible tomorrow, but the last few weeks have been some of the best Bible discussions we've had all year.

In case you have never been introduced to, or it's just been a while since you've spent some time with them, I'd like to encourage you to spend some time getting to know the folks in Hebrews 11. Go ahead and follow through with chapter 12.

Thank you God that my pleasing you is not dependent on my impossible perfection. Thank you for promising to increase my faith if I will only ask. Thank you for giving me just the measure of faith and grace needed to endure through each new circumstance. Thank you for loving me enough to discipline me - even though discipline is not fun, I know it is to make me look more like Christ.