Our Last Post for This Trip??

Dear Prayer Partners,

            Greetings again from Yako!  We so appreciate your prayers and encouragement for us over the past few days.  We are still here at the Sheltering Wings orphanage and basically taking things 1 day at a time.  As Kristine mentioned in our last blog, God has seemingly been very quiet in the past few days.  We were encouraged on Friday morning when He clearly told each of us to wait patiently for the harvest here in Yako.  We were able to do some ministry out in the village on Friday, but our village ministry time today was cancelled.  We mostly stayed around the orphanage here and interacted with the kids in different ways.

            Currently we plan to stay here in Yako tonight (Saturday) and attend church here with Ruth tomorrow morning.  We have great hope and expectation for what God is going to do tomorrow.  It is possible that 1 or both of us may have the opportunity to speak to the congregation tomorrow afternoon or night.  If so, we will stay here in Yako again on Sunday night and then go back to Ouaga on Monday. Our return flight on Monday is not until midnight, so we have plenty of time to do so.  If we follow this plan, then this is likely the last blog entry that we will write until we return home and then we will send out a trip report (or 2 or 3!)  Please pray for smooth connections as we travel to Paris and Atlanta before returning home to Denver.

            If anything changes in our schedule, we will try to let you know.  If God makes it very clear, then we are open to staying here a few extra days, but we have not heard that clearly yet.  Please continue to pray for wisdom in this decision.  All we can tell you is the same thing that we are praying:  "We earnestly desire to complete everything that God has called us here to do on this trip.  In the big picture, it is cheaper in both time and money to stay a few extra days now, than it is to return later.  We are certainly open to returning again in the future, but at the same time, if God has more for us on THIS trip, then we want to be faithful to obey."  We trust that Jesus will show us the Father's will, as it is Him that we are here to obey."

           

-Jeffrey

 

P.S.-Joshua wanted to type something into this blog so here it is: "ethbnmnvbrcxzaqwsdertyuiop!!"