“We think we know what change is but our missionaries have a corner on the market when it comes to change. They experience changes in location, co-workers and friends, family, work, housing, and their administration. Often it is a constant with them. Sometimes they embrace that change and revel in the excitement of it. At other times, change makes them exhausted. Pray that today they would run to the One who never changes and rest in His embrace. May their hope and trust in His certainty be renewed.” (August 26th post at https://www.facebook.com/WomensMissions.)
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| One way that God renews the hope and trust of workers in Africa - the beauty of His creations found throughout the continent! |
It was truly God leading when I spotted this on Facebook yesterday! Change is good and often welcomed, but…
I just scratched several paragraphs that I had spent hours writing. Why? First, I am exhausted from still trying to get us settled in our ‘week-day’ home in the cottage on the campus of the Kenya Baptist Theological College. Sometimes I, like many missionaries, get a little weary of figuring out how to make things work when you live in a different culture and when we face limitations!
I just scratched several paragraphs that I had spent hours writing. Why? First, I am exhausted from still trying to get us settled in our ‘week-day’ home in the cottage on the campus of the Kenya Baptist Theological College. Sometimes I, like many missionaries, get a little weary of figuring out how to make things work when you live in a different culture and when we face limitations!
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| Director of Missions from Kentucky teaching the Gospels. |
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| KBTC graduate teaching an advanced diploma class. |
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| A view that will always revive the exhausted - a view of the tea fields beside KBTC! |
I think you can glean lots of prayer items from the above comments, but also pray with us that a house will soon become available for use as the principal’s house, which means we can ‘fully’ move to the campus, which will be less stressful (definitely an exhaustion factor) than living in two places!
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| One reason for my exhaustion - the fumes experienced on Kenyan roads which do not aid breathing properly! One way I overcome exhaustion - looking out a window and viewing the beautiful birds and flowers! |
Another reason that I’m exhausted is that sometimes we and our co-workers do become somewhat overwhelmed by all we see and experience. Many of these changes, blessings and excitements are shared in this week’s Nudges to Action for Sub-Saharan African Peoples. This week’s stories include praises, bits of cultural differences, as well as heartbreaking stories which all need prayer, so please take time to view these stories which affect our ability to share the Gospel among peoples, including as one friends shared this week, among “millions… who've never heard.”
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| Not yet used as an illustration for a Nudge to Action for Sub-Saharan African Peoples, but... |
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Nudges
to Action for Sub-Saharan African Peoples found at https://www.facebook.com/SubSaharanAfricanPeoples.
