To be honest these past two weeks have been some what hard. God has really been pressing me about what I am doing here, where my heart is, and how I am working that out from day to day. It has been a big inner battle but a good one. It has been hard to make time for just me and God as well.
All Nations is the organization that I work with over here and they just bought an old school about two weeks ago that they want to use for housing and lectures for Cpx (church planting experience). Cpx teaches about discipling and planting small house churches. It started on February 9th and it has been so hectic for us setting up for it that none of us had much time to think about anything else. We each had our areas of responsibility so we carried our own plus some of the others when needed. The school was so dirty and so many things had to be fixed. They want to house around 30 people there and there was only one shower, one tub and most of the bathroom stalls were small because they were built for kids. All of the stuff that the school used was still there so we had to clean it all out and then buy new stuff for ourselves. I still don’t know how we did it with the money as a factor but God is good! With the way things go in Africa I had my doubts about it being done in time for students to move in. But I learned once again not to doubt God’s ability. We found workers for everything that needed to be done and they came mostly on time. God really worked a miracle through this place. I don’t know how but yesterday we had almost all of it done and cleaned for the new students to move in. We were sitting there in our new living space, with four couches that were donated to us, exhausted and amazed that in 9 days the place had been transformed. It felt like Extreme Home Makeover (not quite as nice granted, but still it was our new home.
So, with that going on and everything else that keeps us busy God still finds little times to speak with me. He has revealed some more of my heart to me and opened up my heart to new things. I have been so busy that I haven’t been able to really commit to Red Hill yet but that will come. I think God is putting me through a time of cleansing and getting me ready for that. As each new day comes I am learning to put into work the heart that God is giving me and looking for all the little opportunities that God gives me to serve Him. I am also learning how small those jobs really are most of the time;) But I am loving it. Being part of what God is doing here is amazing! Watching the people come through here and catch the vision of what God is doing is really exciting and being able to be a part of helping them go out and spread that is even better. Every time I doubt the reason why I am here or think maybe I made the wrong decision God is always ready to show me how He brought me here and how this was His idea and in His plan. You gotta love Him!
