Meeting with Ber. District Pastors…

Today as I was finishing teaching (around 12:40 pm), I met with the Ber. pastors who are serving as district leaders. They are meeting today. It was great to see them again. Horo, the leader of the CCC ministry was there also. It is exciting to see these men who are trained now planting Ber. churches. They meet once a month for encouragement and support and to seek the Lord concerning what He is doing in each of the churches being planted.

Today, in class, we discussed the process of making disciple makers and of church planting. I really love talking about these things from the Word of God and from personal experience. The men were eager to learn what the Bible says about these things. Tomorrow will be the last day of teaching (Friday). I will miss these men.

We leave R. around 6 pm tomorrow, fly to D. and then to Malaysia, then to Taiwan, then to California, then to MSP, then to Rochester. Six flights—I can’t wait! Thank you for praying for us.

Water Baptisms on Wednesday morning…

We were able to meet with the six people who publicly professed their faith in Christ through water baptism. It was a neat morning. We traveled about 50 min. on motorcycles into a remote village area. It was great to see the diversity in the body of Christ here. I believe that Josh and I were more blessed than then the church there that we met. It was a great morning!!!

Black & White Toast…

This morning’s breakfast was more than I take…from laughing that is. I have been very thankful for breakfast since it has been my main meal. I have been eating a big breakfast, little to no lunch and a small supper—mostly mixed rice or some kind of noodles. Here are some of the things that made me chuckle this morning at breakfast… It began when I asked for an omelet but didn’t receive it until the end of the meal (usually it is served within 5 minutes). The orange juice was kind of orange but mostly several other colors—as was its flavor. My cashews crawled on my plate—there were little bugs in them. The milk for my cold cereal (granola type with a little cocoa puffs in it—you have to get your chocolate some way) was warn not cold—BUT the butter was complete frozen hard. My coffee had a layer of “skin” on it that I had to ‘break’ through. And finally, my two pieces of toast, which I ate way before my omelet ever came, was black and white—one side completely charred, but the other side totally white and soft (the toaster is the kind you put break on a tray that goes through a heater and then you flip the bread for the second time through). As you can guess my toast today didn’t get flipped but was served to me both black and white sides up. It was a great breakfast.