so of course

Friday's chapel was a special one, with Rujerry and Jean William sharing with all the staff and students their heart for this awesome ministry opportunity in Catania.  They did not go on and on about their feelings or emotions or thought processes, as I would have in my culture, but instead went through the need, the wide open door for the Gospel going to those it's never had the chance to go to, and the so-of-course manner that they decided to go.  How would they NOT go?  

"Pray for our support, pray for our visas, pray for our way, but most, let our faces remind you to pray for the people we will, Lord-willing, be introducing to the Kingdom."

That was their 10 minutes instead of their 30 allotted, and that was their story.  That was enough.  

I want, I desire, such a faith.  Such a so-of-course obedience.  Such a trust, that God might so-of-course do the impossible, pave the impossible way.

So we came around them and several staff and students took turns praying.

And then Matt said, "Let us pray for them," and so we did.  And in Haiti, when we're all praying for Rujerry and Jean William, for Catania and Africa and muslims and refugees, well, we're ALL praying.

This is one of my favorite things about the Haitian Christ-following culture.  We are not praying for others to listen.  We are praying to listen to God, to come before God.  Which we can all do, together, individually.  

It was a powerful 20 minutes lifting them up, putting before the Lord the roadblocks-slash-opportunities to do what only He can...bring people to Himself through Rujerry and Jean William, through their family, through us all.

They're continuing to work through all the legal / visa parts with "Care for Catania" at the helm.  Be praying with us...THANK YOU.

This weekend Matt's teaching for our weekend program all day Saturday, three new visiting professors come in between today and tomorrow, and Matt's preaching at a church in town Sunday morning for their service...which starts at 6:30.  am.  

The girls were supposed to both start school Monday, but the national consensus that "no one is ready" has pushed it to next Monday...as always, we are just along for the ride, praise the Lord.

Also, a story we shared a year or two ago was shared again by One Mission Society yesterday...and nothing has changed...except that "going out" sure has had wider boundaries lately.  Thank you for being our praying family.

"Our Lord is filled with overflowing joy whenever He sees any of us doing what Mary did when she broke the flask of very costly oil and poured it on Jesus--not being bound by a particular set of rules, but being totally surrendered to Him.

Now. is. the. time. for us to break the flasks of our lives, to stop seeking our own satisfaction, and to pour out our lives before Him.

God poured out the life of His Son that the world through Him might be saved (John 3:17). Are we prepared to pour out our lives for Him?"

--O. Chambers