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I’m back! We had a great trip to Bogota, Colombia to help with a basketball camp and share Christ. What an amazing country. It was beautiful, cooler than sweltering Iowa in the summer, very hospitable people and so much variety. I’ll try to get pictures up ASAP. It was a great to see the passion Jon and Holly have for ministry in Colombia. God did some amazing things. We had 10 kids receive Christ and more families interested in the church. Stay tuned…
Well we’re scrambling here to get ready for the National Conference with the move to Ankeny. We volunteered to handle getting childcare for preschoolers after the church in the Cedar Rapids area couldn’t do it.
Also, I’m getting ready to head out next week and visit our missionaries in Colombia, the Boyds. We’re going to hold a basketball camp for them. It’s going to be exciting. Keep track of the happenings at colombiamission.blogspot.com
I got the CD from the Conference this week. Here’s the first installment with Colin Smith preaching through selected portions of Judges. You’ll really appreciate his insights.
Anne Rice, the vampire novelist that several years ago turned from 30 years of atheism, said,
I stumbled upon a mystery without a solution, a mystery so immense that I gave up trying to find an explanation because the whole mystery defied belief. The mystery was the survival of the Jews…. It was this mystery that drew me back to God. (Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, 308-309)
HT: Desiring God
From the Desiring God blog:
As the carnage from Cyclone Nargis moves toward 50,000 dead and beyond, there is a way to pray and act:
1. Be softened to the pain nearby.
The Good Samaritan knew nothing of the calamities in first century Burma, but was commended by the Lord for mercies at hand (Luke 10:25-37).
2. Pray for the followers of Christ in Myanmar:
3. Pray for the millions of unbelievers near the calamity and far from it:
4. Pray for those of us who live in the seeming security and prosperity of America:
5. Give money to replenish the coffers of compassion “since you also are in the body” (Hebrews 13:3).
6. Muster a team from your church, and when the doors are open, be ready to go.
This kind of going always has the promise of a special, “I will be with you to the end of the age” (Matthew 28:20).