I just love new beginnings! I cannot believe that it has been an entire year since I have written on this blog. I wanted so much to write at LEAST once a month. I probably shouldn't decide that in January because I work at a CPA firm and January is the beginning of tax season!!
HOWEVER, this year is different. Our God is all about new beginnings, and THIS year ~ 2014~ writing on this blog is going to have a higher priority. You see, God is calling me to a great adventure that is entirely out of my comfort zone and yet I believe it to be the most exciting adventure I have had so far, and I believe it is only the beginning.
God has called me to go to Kampala, Uganda, to share God's Word and God's love with the women at the Kampala Community Church. The journey is just beginning and there is much to do to get ready. I will not be going until the end of July so I hope to keep at least a brief record on this blog of this time of preparation and then will post on it when I can while I am gone for three weeks. I am praying that as I share how God uses all of this in my own personal life, that it may be an encouragement to someone else to step out where God is leading you.
I will begin with the verse that God has laid upon my heart as the theme verse for my ministry in Uganda:
Joshua 22:5
"But take careful heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul."
Within this verse are five challenges given to us. Each one is crucial to living daily in an abiding relationship with Christ. These are the things that I believe God wants me to share with the women in Uganda.
In the next few months there will be many things to do to prepare. Since I have never done anything like this before, I don't really know what all there is to do but I am learning quickly and I am thankful for those who are helping me and encouraging me and praying for me.
I have a wonderful young lady who will be traveling and ministering with me. I am so thankful to God for bringing her into my life and putting Africa on her heart as well. She has some experience in traveling out of the country and in packing simply!!
I am taking the saying "LIVE SIMPLY" to heart as I prepare to travel to a land and culture very different from what I am accustomed to. And I am beyond excited!
More details will come as we move forward in our preparation.
~To the glory of His name!!
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