There are two big pieces of news in our April 2010 newsletter.
First, this week we will be at New Wineskins Missions Conference. We'll be driving north tomorrow to Nashville to visit with some folks, then we will be heading over to North Carolina for the actual conference. Please pray that we make good connections and say and do as the Lord leads.
Secondly, Paul is under consideration for an IT Operations Manager position which is based out of IHQ in Singapore. We and the OMF US Leadership Team have been praying, and we think this would be a good fit for our family and a unique way Paul can use his training to serve God by managing International IT operations and relationships. We would value your prayers as we seek the Lord's guidance. This is a huge change not to be taken lightly.
We expect you have many questions. Please feel free to drop us a line or call and we'd be happy to unpack this a little bit more. We are always seeking more folks to pray for us as we go through this process.
Showing posts with label prayer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prayer. Show all posts
4.06.2010
11.12.2009
Nov 12: full disclosure vs too much information
When to say what. That's kind of what I'm thinking about today. We all have family events and, depending on the family, we either have a culture of telling everyone we know or not saying boo until there is nothing to be done. When your blogging, I think there is an added level of cathartic dump vs sensitivity to others who are involved.
As a missionary accountable to a group of prayer partners, if I don't give you a chance to pray for me, how is that having faith that God is listening? Prayer should ideally not be the last thing we do, it should be the first thing we do. And that is very backwards to my inclination. Prayer first, means we are stepping out in faith that God is in control and we are showing our obedience. Praying last means often that we are hedging our bets, or treating prayer as some kind of bartering system. (I do this, you do that, I get results, etc.) Ancient prayer worked a lot like that. I give you an offering, you give me a blessing, and we're good until the next pressing need.
But really, how do you draw the line? Once you release the information in to the wild, you loose control over it. Also, by withholding information, do you make it worse? I guess all I will say now is my extended family is currently going through an event. Please pray for us.
As a missionary accountable to a group of prayer partners, if I don't give you a chance to pray for me, how is that having faith that God is listening? Prayer should ideally not be the last thing we do, it should be the first thing we do. And that is very backwards to my inclination. Prayer first, means we are stepping out in faith that God is in control and we are showing our obedience. Praying last means often that we are hedging our bets, or treating prayer as some kind of bartering system. (I do this, you do that, I get results, etc.) Ancient prayer worked a lot like that. I give you an offering, you give me a blessing, and we're good until the next pressing need.
But really, how do you draw the line? Once you release the information in to the wild, you loose control over it. Also, by withholding information, do you make it worse? I guess all I will say now is my extended family is currently going through an event. Please pray for us.
6.05.2008
in praise of fuzzybunz
so this is just a short one. I just wanted to say I'm mightily impressed with fuzzibunz (and all pocket diapers actually). Even with a reduced efficiency because of what I think is hard water, Tobo slept from 11:30p to 7:45a this morning. And because he got so much sleep, he is happily playing on the gym behind me instead of being clingy like the last 2 weeks.
Also - J from church stopped by to see how we were doing. I mentioned that his sleep schedule has been much to be desired over the last few weeks (up ever hour after 4am). So we prayed about that (and other things) and that night he slept better. So my parenting advice is to pray over your child like no bodies business.
Ok, off to flip laundry and eat breakfast. Just wanted to write that down.
Also - J from church stopped by to see how we were doing. I mentioned that his sleep schedule has been much to be desired over the last few weeks (up ever hour after 4am). So we prayed about that (and other things) and that night he slept better. So my parenting advice is to pray over your child like no bodies business.
Ok, off to flip laundry and eat breakfast. Just wanted to write that down.
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