Continuing on with the Journey

Hey everyone! I am so excited to have a blog now! My traveling buddy Torstein from Norway showed me how to do this making it easier to voluntarily read and comment on what's going on in my "African" life. I won't send long mass emails to all of you and you can definitely share this site with others if they are interested and would like to pray for me. I will even be able to load pictures here, so that you will be able to put a face to the stories of people that God is touching! How cool is that?? I love easy accessible internet cafes! Be blessed!

Update since January 8, 2007:
I have been officially done with mission school and out of the "bush" for almost 3 weeks now, and I have to admit, I went through some culture shock. I gave the South African mother where I was staying at a big hug after being allowed to thoroughly clean my clothes in her washer and dryer! It was such a blessing! That was in Johannessburg for a couple of days, and now I have traveled to the bottom tip of Africa to Cape Town.

God has been leading me to apply what I have learned in Mozambique. (James 1:25-But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.) This is God's promise that I have been experiencing many times since I have been here, as I am learning to step out of my comfort zone and enter into "His uncomfortable zone." (2 Corinthians 4:17-18-For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.) I am learning it's worth being afflicted in my "fear of what man will think" only for a moment, compared to the fruitful results from obeying God!