All About Missions

This is Marni. She is our compassion child that we sponsor each month. We have been sponsoring Marni for almost a year and what a privilege it has been. Marni turns 9 in just a few days. She lives in Indonesia with her parents. We get letters from Marni and sometimes they talk about the living conditions and their day to day life... it makes me realize how blessed I am to live where I do...to have a roof over my head, to have a warm house, running water, and more than enough food to always eat. But yet how many times do I say, I am starving, I have nothing to wear, I am freezing... but am I really any of these things? We have so much to be thankful for. Thankful to a God that is so gracious to meet our needs, above and beyond what we could have ever imagined. This week is World Reach at our church. It's a week devoted to missions, metro, local, and international. Today, at my parents house, we hosted a missionary couple for a luncheon with our small group.

Meet... James and Jen. They are our local missionary couple. James charged us with getting out of our comfort zone and realizing that we as Christians are no better than the unbeliever next door. There are people all around me daily that desperately need Jesus in their life. What am I waiting for?? We must tell the whole world the Good News. Tomorrow is not promised to us.

The guys did a little grilling out for the lunch. Matt manned the grill as always and did a fabulous job.

Chrissy, Hope, and Rachel... love these gals!!

Jason, Drew, Nathan, and Matt....ready to get their place in line.

And here is our class (minus a few couples) and our missionaries. Can I tell you how much our Life Connection class means to us? These couples are the sound friendships in our life that mean the world to us. It is a blessing to call each one of them a brother and sister in Christ. Hope you had a happy Saturday... what a beautiful day from the Lord!