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From Mexico – First Few Days Nov2010

We pushed Mario's Combi (VW BUS Circa \'78) to get it started, but it was good after that! This photo is from our first few minutes of the trip.

We have been on the ground in Mexico for about 48 hours, most of our time spent in DF (the Capitol District of Mexico City). Right now we are in Cuernavaca, one of my favorite cities in Mexico. I like it here for a lot of reasons, but primarily for the friends I have here. The emerging generation has so much promise, and so much potential. It is also a target, and a very strategic one, of the enemy. I can remember my own awkwardness, my own lack of focus, and my own absent-mindedness enough to know that I want to encourage the emerging generation in every way I can. Continue reading “From Mexico – First Few Days Nov2010”

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thoughts of late

30Sep2010
Where resources exceed purpose, waste is unavoidable.  Purpose makes a way for resources to rightfully be put to work.

If we have more resources, it will not make our purpose arise.  If we arise in our purpose, the necessary resources will come.

26Sep2010

There is enough vanity around to keep us indefinitely occupied throughout the entire span of our life, and completely fruitless.  Ouch.

What if the primary purpose of this life is to give us an opportunity to enter into Christlikeness?  No matter what our final accounting is, if we pass through life and neglect or ignore this opportunity, we will utterly fail.  Help us Lord to say yes to this our largest of opportunities.

We are at the beginning, or at least the early stages of, a transition that will completely transform Christ's body in the earth.  We will become something new.  I think of Jesus' quote where He says He has come to send fire on the earth, and how He wishes that it were already kindled.  We are about to enter that fire (of transformation).

I am saddened by some things around me these days.  Wanting the best and highest for people can sometimes be conflicting.  Clearly, people have to decide for themselves what this is, and they are the ones who will be responsible for the outcome.  Lord, open our eyes and our hearts to go farther into You.

More to be added…..

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Trip Summary – Nicaragua FXMissions Trip Aug2010 / Part One

Jeff, Alex and I

When we set out, a little over a year ago, to begin a small-team, short-term missions sending group, there were a lot of things that we felt were central and would be needed to make a good start.  Group training events facilitating team unity, team members from different areas, physical readiness, and a good destination for our first trip.  As Yuri and I sat down to discuss the state of things toward the end of our time in Nicaragua, we realized that what we had felt was needed to prepare a team for our first trip had all been assembled and put in place, but not by means we envisioned from our original plans.  The LORD had done it his own way, and brought it all together by His grace.  This feels good, and right. Continue reading “Trip Summary – Nicaragua FXMissions Trip Aug2010 / Part One”