Praying, Packing and Ready to Go!

This past Sunday, our Guyana mission team was commissioned for the trip leaving Wilmington on Friday, March 6.   Pastor Tim Reaves laid hands on the team members, praying for fruitful ministry and traveling mercies. After the service, we enjoyed chili from the Youth Chili Cook-off and then onto the packing.

We were overwhelmed by the generosity of folks donating children’s clothes, flip-flops and T-shirts. All of this generosity then needed to be packed into the foot lockers. And we did it! 19 foot lockers – our checked luggage!

Please be in prayer for the team: Jeff Butler, Melissa Butler, Miles Butler, Mike O’Neil, Derick Allen, Pat Everett, Tony Brigman, Will Archer, and Trish Archer

 

 

 

 

More in the Dental Chair

Questions in the dental hygienist’s chair sometimes go beyond “do you floss every day?” Occasionally they are a little more unexpected – like “do you ask your congregation for topics for sermons?”

Umm . . . wasn’t expecting that between rinse and suction.

After I stumbled around for an answer (which was “uh, not really”), I replied: “why do you ask?”

Hygienist: “Well, I just wondered if, in light of the tragedies of this world, you try to offer some kind of answer to the questions of why?”

Me: “Oh, certainly world events both at home and far away inform our messages.” Sounds like a nice and tidy answer, doesn’t it?

Honestly I don’t know what else I said.  Her original question was simple.  Her second question – not so much.

But it made me remember why I answered the call to ministry some 25 years ago. (Has it really been that long?) People want answers.

All of us are searching for answers in this crazy, beautiful world that we live in.  We are all searching for more than just what we see in the media.

I find my hope and my strength in Jesus Christ. I don’t understand why there’s pain and heartache in this world BUT I know that in the midst of this life, Jesus is the One who stands with us, bringing hope and peace.

Jesus is the One who offers more.


Thanks to Noah Archer for the photo used on this page.