Sometimes our prayer update seems to create itself and I’m simply the typist and the editor seeking to shorten the appearing thoughts, but I can’t get started today. I had added “as my mind is blank” to end the last sentence, but the truth is that my mind is so filled with things to remember/ things to do that it is hard to focus! One distraction is the piles scattered around our house, the result of unpacking from last week’s trip to western Kenya and packing for a 10 or more day trip to the coast which begins tomorrow – the reason for sending this week’s update early.
Once again we are traveling with our friends, Ron and Jan Langston, with the purpose of ‘gathering information’ on the Bible Schools of Kenya and discerning whether this is where God wants us investing more of our time and energies. Thanks for praying for us last week as we know that God was guiding and protecting us as we traveled through beautiful country and met with people eager to share their lives and dreams with us.
One such person is a young man who graduated in July from our seminary, Kenya Baptist Theological College. Willingstone is very eager to entrust all he has learned with reliable others of western Kenya who can teach others how to better know and serve our heavenly Father and be His ambassadors. Keeping up with this young man and his father, Hesbon, is going to be a challenge as Ron, Jan and Jack join them in teaching in new Bible Schools. I will be tagging along, but my job will continue to be sharing what God is doing and how He is allowing us to be His fellow workers.
On our trip home last week, we stopped at a pottery display near Kakamega. I was preparing to put my camera away as not all want their work photographed, but the potters eagerly welcomed us and our cameras to their workshops! You will spot photos taken that day in coming weeks as the stop provided many, many scenes to illustrate prayer nudges, including the photo used last Sunday (October 9th) and in tomorrow’s Prayer Nudge from East Africa.
We continue to thank God for the many opportunities He gives us to relate to others who love and serve Him, such as assisting with a baby dedication at our church, as well as relating with those in need of our Good News, such as friends of other faiths who often talk to us about their relationship with God – relationships of which they are content, yet we know they could have so much more joy and peace if they accepted all of His gifts! I ask this week that you join us in praying that we continually grow in our ability to share our Father’s love and salvation. Join us in praying that when the task ahead of us seems overwhelming and like Moses (Exodus 3:11,12) we ask, “Who am I that I should” go or do …, that we remember that our being our Father’s ambassadors is not about who we are, but about who is with us, our Father who promises, “I will be with you.”
BERT YATES
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