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I Want to Share Something Truly Life Changing...

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The Lord has been impressing upon me the need to share the good news of Jesus Christ. This is for me. This is for RMI teams too. Seriously, I/we have the greatest news, we MUST share it with those who haven't made a decision to follow Jesus.  Let's respond to God's call upon us to share something truly life changing. I have shared it twice in the last week. One individual responded that he is already a follower of Christ. The other I am honestly not sure. One thing I know, I was faithful and both heard the clear and simple good news. The rest is up to the Lord. 2 weeks ago we had a team here who had 17 people respond saying they wanted to follow Christ. The local church wrote those names down and will follow up. How COOL is that! Do you struggle with sharing your faith? I totally get it. But, I want to encourage us all to not make it more difficult than it is. Seriously, the Gospel itself is simple. Maybe because we have found it so life changing we make the Gospel mo...

We've Been Silent. Why?

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Life can get busy.  I don't care if you are in the US or on a foreign mission field. Life gets busy.  You've been there.  We all have periods of extraordinarily intense responsibility, pressures, problems, etc.  For the purposes of personal preservation, these seasons will often force us to circle the wagons, go dark, and increase our focus on a decreased number of things.  The last month or so has been exactly that for us. What have been our pressures?  Continued reentry struggles from furlough/home assignment.  Teams and lack of teams. Arrival of new missionaries and lack of missionaries as some were traveling.  Lack of rest and time with family.  Self imposed unrealistic expectations.  Start of school.  Sickness.  Lack of time in scripture.  RMI Projects. Internet Issues. Challenging goals. Broken stuff.  Changing the world. Pray for us as we continue to walk through these days and be strategic about navigating...