Looking Forward

Yes. At times, it’s good to look back. I’m looking back at this blog…that I briefly used…and decided against so that I could keep my xanga…and I just can’t see posting the same thing two different blogs and how would I keep up with each one if I did different stuff on them anyway?

(breathe)

OK. It’s interesting that I named this blog “Looking Forward” because when I started it, I certainly was looking forward to something…something amazing.

Let me tell you what’s happened so far. (You…who still reads this? I dunno.)

A few months ago, Allen and I looked back over our lives and realized how God has been preparing us both…for a long time…for what is to come.

Preparing us with good times and difficult times…preparing us with many different experiences with many different kinds of people…preparing us with stirrings in our hearts for various people groups…

And now, we’ve heard His call. We’ve been invited to join the staff of a multi-ethnic church in Central Arkansas. The church, although it is not affiliated with the Mosaic Alliance, is named Mosaic Church of Central Arkansas and what they are doing fits us in so many different ways.

This almost five year old church has 600 people representing 31 different nations. They are a united body working together for the cause of Christ. It’s a beautiful thing, and we know this is where we are headed. God has called our family of five to join them so that we can be trained in multi-ethnic ministry. What they are doing is working…and we have the opportunity to learn from them. We are THRILLED!

The church is young and is located in a poor part of town. For these reasons, most of the staff of Mosaic has been asked to raise their own support for their first year of working. The church has big ideas…so they need people to bring those ideas to life. Then the church will grow into the position to officially hire staff members. At this time, I think there are five or six paid staff members. We’d be the only ones there on support.

So…that’s where we’re headed. God called us to missions several years ago. We thought we were headed out of the country. Now, He’s brought the whole world to us…in Little Rock, Arkansas. Who’d have thought it?

Please pray
1. that we can get our house ready for the market and sell it quickly…
2. that we can raise the necessary funds to begin our work in Little Rock by Feburary 1st (or sooner!)

Debbie

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