Jonah

One day God asked a man named Jonah to go to a place called Nineveh and tell the people living there to stop being bad. The only problem was that Jonah didn't want to help the people there. He knew they were bad and he wanted them to be punished for their mistakes.
So instead of listening to God, Jonah thought he would run away from Nineveh and not do what God asked him. He ran to the sea where he found a ship that was going to another city. He paid the captain, went in the lower part of the boat and went to sleep....
Hmmm.... This is the boys first bible lesson of their new school year. All they were concerned about listening to was how the big fish swallowed up Jonah, pretty cool to a 4 and 6 year old! All I was thinking about, is how Jonah tried to run away from what he knew his Lord was calling him to do! Sounds pretty familiar in my life right now.
We know the calling our Lord has put on our family, and something we used to be so excited about has turned into such a battle. A battle we have been fighting for almost a year now! We pretty much "laid down" and went to sleep just like Jonah, but we are now starting to feel the waters around us raging up. We are feeling Him calling our hearts once again to Uganda, knowing we were stopped not by Him, but by others before.
Will you please join us in prayer as God is opening new doors around us, paving the way for us to Uganda? Building up a team that we are to placed with! We have learned so much over this past year, and trust me, have way further to go.. but we just want to be obedient. There is no greater feeling than being in the center of our Lord's will, a feeling we are slowly regaining.
Please pray He will continue to open doors for us and we will hear our Maker's voice loud and clear! The last thing I want, is for my family to be swallowed up by that "big fish" :)
God Bless.