Family Ministry Day

I am exhausted, but refreshed!  Today was the fourth Family Ministry Weekend at Cornerstone.  We had about 150 people working at six different sites today.  We were building a horseshoe pit at a nursing home, doing landscaping at a different nursing home, painting birdhouses with nursing home residents, painting rooms, doing landscaping at a home for mentally/physically handicapped adults, screening a cabin at a summer camp, and running electricity, installing a roof, cleaning up brush, painting porches, and hosting a fellowship at Siloam Missionary Homes.

It was a great day.  It was also a little strange.  You see Family Ministry Weekend has always been my project, yet this year I wasn't in charge.  Forrest, our new staff member, was in charge this year.  He did a great job!  He didn't do it my way, but he did just fine.  Whether I was leaving Cornerstone to go to the mission field or not, Forrest would have been in charge.  But knowing that I am leaving makes it seem a little strange.  It was the first task that used to be mine that has been handed over to someone else.  I know there are many more to come.  But it was a little bit of reality today.

The other thing today that was a little bit of a "slap of reality" was that we fellowshipped with 10+ missionary families that are living at Siloam.  They are there on medical leave or furlough.  Most are in the process of raising their support so that they can return to the mission field.  They are where we are in regards to support, and where we hope to be in four years - home from our first term.  At first it was exciting, and then it was "ahh."  Can't actually put the feeling into words.  We really are heading to the mission field, aren't we?

Continue to pray for the sale of our house.  Activity has slowed down on it and we know that the longer it takes to sell it, the harder it gets.  Pray for us to wait on God's timing, but to also hear his direction.

We have raised a little more than 13% of our financial support.  We mailed out 25 church packets hoping to connect with churches both to be financial and prayer partners.   We need to line up churches and appointments to share our journey.  Pray for doors to open and for both us and those receiving the packets to be open to partnership.  Pray that we have time to follow up with each church that we reached out to.

Sorry for the lapse in writing, been a crazy week or two!