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Sunday, January 10, 2010

God's Wonderful Creation





    I have had the priviledge over the span of the last 40 years to be able to visit many different places on the face of the incredible earth that God created for us "in the beginning." I am constantly amazed and blessed at all that He has given us to richly enjoy.

    Over the past almost 19 years Greg and I have been able to travel across the vast majority of the United States (mostlt while we worked at the college) and have had the opportunity to travel abroad. We have been the wonderful honor to take the Gospel to Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Cambodia. Cambodi has a very special place in our heart as we are actively involved in educating, equipping and encouraging national church leaders in a very unique way. It is our prayer that God will open many more doors of opportunity for us to minister His grace and love in Cambodia, and that He will allow us to continue to see life change happen in Cambodia.

    In the summer of 2009, Greg and I were taken on the absolute trip of a lifetime. We are still amazed at God's grace in allowing us such a wonderful opportunity to be blessed in such an incredible way by two of His wonderful children. We toured London, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Greece and the Greek Isles and to say it was breathetaking is an understatement! There is not word, a picture or any other way to describe the majestic beauty of the places we saw. You truly have to go see if for yourself. The highlight of our trip was the opportunity to walk the streets of Ephesus in Turkey where Paul ministerd, visited Miletus and Didymas, and visited the Collasisum in Rome where Christians where persecuted at the had of Nero. I get chills again just remembering the experience. What an incedible opportunity.

    In December of 2009, we were also so blessed to be able to take Seth on his first missions trip to El Salvador. We have prayed that as God continues to burdern our heart for foreign missions that He would make a way for Seth to be able to travel with us. We want his young heart and life to be touched by these wonderful chances of a lifetime. It was such a blessing to see Seth touched by what he saw, yet not at all inhibited by the language barrier, but even quickly found his own way to communicate past it. When we left, he was trying to figure out how we could stay and help the people there. As we drove to the airport he cried because he did not want to leave. It is our prayer that this will be the first of many ways in which God will burden his heart for a lost and dying world and that someday God will use Seth to do great things for Him in His world.

    We truly have been so blessed and are so thankful to You God for allowing us the opportunity to visit so many of these incredible places and see be able to see your majestly in every detail, difference and similarity of the vastness of the earth. Thank You Lord for your incredible blessings!

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