I wanted to thank each of you for praying for me and my family. We realize that we have great limitations in our abilities and personalities. Through you prayers and kind words we have found much peace in our decision and as always realize that God is God and he makes us what he wants us to be. Kristin and I have asked each other again this week, "is this the thing to do". The answer is always "yes". We are excited to be chosen for this great task and we constantly pray that we will have the strength to do this task. We know that we are not called to Rwanda to fail. We may have to measure our success by God's standards, which may be a whole new lesson for us, but we will not fail. God is great!!
We are in a valley now. We see behind us the great peaks of excitement that was the day we decided and the day we sat in our home with the Koonces and gave the rest of our lives to this work and ahead of us is the great day we will leave for Rwanda with our family. In the middle is anxiousness, frustration, waiting, stress, fund raising, and temptation to give up. I told Kristin that I hope the success and the value of what we do will be equal to the level of temptation and physical despair. It is obvious that Satan does not want this because he is trying hard to blind us from our goal.
Thank you for your prayers.
