All for Him...

Well family and friends, this is where things get real. The local immigration office sent me away unwilling to give me a visa yesterday to stay in the country permanently. We aren't giving up and are headed to Kigali tomorrow to work on a solution but the initial shock and fear was there and I shed a couple of years because of it. The situation is a vulnerable on, not a scenario that feels comfortable after giving up my good paying job, my house and my car in the states. Yet this is where we find our God faithful. This is when the picture of that faithfulness becomes vibrant. Do we say we have faith but give up our hope when we can't see the solution? Or do we give ourselves a moment to realize just whose hands we're in? This is the God who set the heavens into place, who parted the sea, who walk on water, who raised the dead. This is who my God is. So today I keep walking out the plan, ever relying on Him to supply all of my needs... Not according to what we have or what w...

As much as I would love to say that every day here has been a breeze, I have to admit that yesterday I had a test of my patience with the Rwandan internet throughout the entire morning as I tried to prepare my visa documents and I'm not quite sure if it came on a bad day or it was the catalyst for the way I felt through the rest of the day. Being a manager at home in the easiest country in the world to live in for 26 years and having a house a car and money of my own was far different than what I know right now. I am dependent and the world is a totally different and unfamiliar place. Kind of a stretch for a type A personality who is used to being self sufficient. Don't get me wrong, I have lots of help here. Everyone has been so awesome in that way. So I felt that frustration build a bit yesterday and pretty much best myself up about it. I'm good at that. Yet I serve a God who has promised new mercies every single morning and I've enjoyed them today. I went to Nyanza t...

After a long flight is was good to touch down in Rwanda on Sunday. We had an engine valve issue so we sat on a sweltering hot plain for 45 minutes waiting for a repair which got us in a little late but safely nonetheless. God is good. It's been a busy 2 1/2 days but wonderful. And it's been such a joy to see the team and meet the new staff. Grace made dinner for me the first two nights of traditional Kenyan food and it was glorious! The girl can cook! We shot basketball wth Todd last night on the new court and I did okay until I got tired in the midst of around the world and showed them just how out of practice I really am. It's a great court now equipped with lights. Lights, I'm telling you! So much fun to be had there and hopes of developing skills with the kids. Organized sports is something the village kids just don't have so I hope we can help them at least get a taste for it. Today I went with Emmy to Kigali for most of the day to supposedly pick up my two mis...

Sometimes you are just so sure that God has taken such good care of you. He always does but sometimes it just seems to be so loud to me. As I approach my departure in a day and a half to live in a village in Gatagara Rwanda, I can't help but reflect on all of the times that He asked what seemed like such hard stuff of me and yet proved Himself to be so faithful. There was the times when I was walking people through my home with interest to buy it, knowing full well that I had yet to raise the funds necessary to live in Gatagara with no income. There was the issue of timing to sell my house and the need to get someone to take over my car lease or buy it outright. None of those things were in place when the call was given. None were worked out when the commitment was made. But God. So again this week I have had the opportunity to see His care for me. I've felt incredible love in the midst of heartbreak. I've felt comfort in one of the toughest things I have ever been called t...