Last week we finished the Biblical portion of the
Perspectives class that I have been sharing with you. This week we begin the
Historical part of our studies. This course continues to absolutely move my
heart for God, and it challenges me to see from His perspective so many things
I had never thought about in such ways. However, I had to be amused during the last
class as our instructor talked about how communication continues to be one of
the biggest barriers of reaching the unreached people groups. He shared with us
some amusing situations that he himself was involved in while living in Kenya
and working with an unreached people group there. Just the finest little
mispronunciation of a word or a word used in a wrong context can cause quite
the problem. As I listened to him, I had flashes of the hundreds of couples and
families I have seen over the years in my Biblical counseling ministry. I have now
decided that I officially have been working with “unreached” people groups in
my office weekly for years! Ha, ha, ha, ha!
Our Belize team continues to come together. We will have the
team officially booked by March 15th. Please pray for the missionary women in
the Central America area to get the word out about the retreat, and that they’d
have the ability to get to and from the location. Continue to pray for
sponsorship of the women, gifts, prayer warriors, messages, worship, etc. Again,
our theme is "Let Your Light Shine” from Matthew 5:16.
I just found out this past week that our team member from Dominican
Republic (DR) is praying weekly with other missionary women there in DR that
attended our retreat in DR last year! Missionaries, above all of us, know how
to pray for other missionary women! I am so thankful to God for their hearts to
continue to pay it forward.
My great nephew is in the process of learning to crawl. Being
the teacher that I am, I was on the floor this morning crawling on all fours
trying to model for him what the process looks like. I feel confident that I
can speak for him regarding this teaching moment as he looked at me with those
big brown eyes, which communicated so clearly . . . "Really!" Even at
this age, you just gotta love 'em!!
His,
Vickie