Worship = Action

Hello All,
We are down to a week and a little bit here in Kijabe.  There are so many things left undone, but it is the way it is.  We will turn the projects over and pray that they will finish in God's timing and be a blessing to the people who will use them.   

We had a Graduation party last Sunday after the baptisms that took place at RVA.  There are 7 graduates from lower station (families who live around the hospital and not at RVA).  It was so fun to get together with all of these families and acknowledge these young adults!  

Graduation happens this coming week - finally!  Colleges are asking all these kids for final transcripts and they just keep having to put them off.  Following the 3 term system is difficult for some of us but it does work in the world context.  Some schools don't start until January, some start in August.  It will all be worked out somehow - it always does!

I finally got a chance to get something done that happens after we leave here.  Jim has been sailing that ship for a while, but I have been so swamped I just can't think beyond the 22nd.  But, I had made a reservation at an inn up in Houghton for Michigan Tech the weekend before Trevor's school starts.  Come to find out, there is an orientation week and we needed it to be a week earlier.  Everywhere I looked, there were no rooms available.  I eventually just started calling places (after thinking that we would be camping!) and the first one said they had been booked for months for that weekend, but had just had a cancellation!  God is good!  We will at least have a place to stay when we drop him off.

The pastor spoke about worship in action a few weeks ago.  We are surrounded by people (missionaries) who are here living their lives in this thought, so it is easy to see it happening.  But, it is not just the "Missionary" (I didn't even know how to spell missionary before!) that should live like this.  It is all of us.  It is, admittedly, not easy to do, but it is something to strive for.  We will constantly fail, but if we can hear God's words in our ears, than we can push on:

1 John 3:14-19            14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. ...............16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. 17 If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? 18 Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

Phil 2:1-8         2 If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded...............

John 13:34-35             34 "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."

 Isa 58:10-11               10 and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.  11 The Lord will guide you always;................

 We have many friends that have been stopping by lately.  Below is a picture of Trevor and his Masaai friend Samuel.  Samuel is a guard up at RVA, but he also sells the beaded jewelry and other items of the Masaai.  He and Trevor have been trading and bargaining for a long time!

Graduation this week!  Yea!  It will be official.  Then we will focus on getting home and getting settled back into life in Reed City.  Please continue to pray for us as we make this transition.

In His Hands,

Jullie T