It's October. WOW! I feel like I just put the Christmas decorations away and here it is almost time to get them down from the attic. Life is speeding by at the same rate that PC's are being updated. Maybe that's the problem. I don't care if I ever get a new computer again but I sure wish I could find the time to sit and reflect on what this year was all about before the next one rolls around. Maybe it's my job to "just do it".
It has been a busy year, but a good one. We began planning our second food packaging event the first part of the year and sometime between January and April we had 100,000 more meals done and saw the children and families who were benefiting from them with our own eyes, which was pretty incredible. Right now we're living a re-play of the first of this year.
October 9th we'll be at the University of Redlands again packaging 100,000 more meals for Tanzania and then in November we'll be on our way for another visit to our far away family. It's been only 6 months since we were there but it seems we're never there enough. Maybe one day we'll have the luxury of longer visits to this simpler land and life. God knows! For now we are blessed to be a part of this great adventure, no matter when or for how long. It's always a great ride.
The "New Things" we are eluding to are great indeed and we are writing to ask you, our brothers and sisters, to please pray with us as we have been offered an opportunity to grow exponentially. We know that it is God who gives and takes away at His perfect discretion and will. We again admit that we are only following His lead from day to day. All four of us, from our mornings and their evenings (Tanzania time) must rest, knowing He is the leader of this expedition He has led us in. We ask Him, as Moses did, that we would not go unless we are sure He goes before us. Our questions seem to continue to come back to; Lord, where, when, how... and He simply shows us as we put one foot in front of the other.
Children need homes, widows need food for their children, the sick and oppressed need deliverance and we need faith and boldness. It's all very simple and it looks no different over here than it does over there. Seems we should all be asking for an outpouring of wisdom and gifts from the Holy Spirit. Today time 'feels' short and it doesn't matter if we're here (USA) or there (Tanzania) or wherever, He could come back anytime and I know I'd stand before Him today and be guilty (convicted) of not taking the opportunities that are all around me. The "new things" don't matter. What matters is that my heart hears Him and obeys the nudging of the Spirit where ever I am. That's what we all need prayer for.
The food packaging will get done and we'll be on our way, Thanksgiving and Christmas will come and so will 2011, Lord willing, and what will be different? I pray that souls will be won to Christ and that our faith will grow in the exponential department and if this doesn't happen I pray that Africa Harvest of Hope doesn't grow either.
So, there you go. If you can figure out that prayer request then you've got us figured out. Well at least for tonight. Blessing and my you sleep well and be given visions and dreams...
Happy October 2010.
Alan and Shannon
Sunday, October 3, 2010
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