How Beautiful

How Beautiful. It's the song I sang at my parents church this weekend.

I'm sorry to say I just enjoyed the whole weekend and kept forgetting to pull out my camera to snap pictures. Friday night we got a visit from a long time friend of mine Ron Hoffman. Ron came from Chicago to Kalamazoo to visit his parents, but he also wanted to get a fuller understanding of what we were doing.

We spent considerable time going over Why the Czech, Why us, What we'll be doing when we get there, and What steps we'll have to take to get there. It was heart warming when Ron asked to be on the Prayer Squad. The Prayer Squad is something that I want to set up in any church that shows an interest in supporting us. I also now that individuals from non-supporting churches may also share the same commitment.

An individual in the "Squad" commits to receiving a prayer update each week, and taking time at least once each week to pray for us. A member of the "Squad" considers this prayer support his or her ministry, and is part of our team. While my family and I will be the only part of the team physically going into the Czech the whole prayer and financial support team enters into ministry and shares in both the burden and the joy of that ministry.

Saturday, we spent the day at my parents house. Some friends joined us and I had the opportunity to share our extended presentation with them. Today I sang at my parents church and spoke briefly with their pastor. Doing this is a lot of work, but it energises me. I grow more and more eager to get to the field, but I'm most eager to be serving and encouraging others in this Pre-Field process.

Adam