Breaking the Silence - Anybody There?

The last time my fingers danced around the keyboard to write in this blog I was sitting in a hotel 10,000 miles away. We are back in Texas now. I was about to say that we are back home now, but the sense of what home is has changed for us somewhat with all this traveling. If we had a compass to point toward home, it would be useless - always pointing straight down at our feet.

It has been a happy 7 months now that we've been back from Africa. God blessed us to move into an incredible home. The day we got back Rachel and I found out that we were pregnant! Seven months later Rachel is entering into the inevitable stages of misery that precede Gabriel's birthday!

Aisha is doing wonderful- she talks about her Agogo and Isaac daily. I have no doubt that were we to move back to Malawi today she would feel right at home. She is such a precious girl. Growing up and speaking so much now- she is down right hilarious.

We are enjoying ministry to middle school students at Palm Valley Church- it is awesome to see God transforming the lives of young people while their hearts are so tender. I am also leading a few missions trips in the coming months - taking a team to Guatemala in June to visit an orphanage run by Tom and Susan Stukengberg in the Mayan village of Santiago Atitlan. Then in July I'm taking 25 to Thailand to lend a hand to Mercy International, an incredible Australian organization caring for orphans who are HIV+.

Our prayer these days is that God would simply use us to make a difference in people's lives wherever we are. Some days it is hard to be back, but we remember that we serve the King of Kings- and he knows what he is doing.