The Goodness of our God

"I will sing to the LORD, because He has dealt bountifully with me.". Psalm 13:6

Well it has been awhile since I lasted posted on our blog. For two reasons 1) we do not always have the Internet and so we are unable to and 2) we have been really busy and so we haven't really had the time. So now that I am done with my excuses, let me share with you what the Lord has been doing.

MISSIONS CONFERENCE

 As you may know, Rebecca and I had the chance to go to the Calvary Chapel Missions Conference at the beginning of this month at the CC Conference Center in Murrieta, CA. We were so blessed to have the chance to go to our first missions conference together. I have had the chance to go to some in the past, but this time we were both able to go! Thank you grandparents for watching the kids for us!

Our desire in going to the conference was to clearly hear from the LORD on what He is calling us to do in our next steps. We know that we have some immediate steps to take  here in California, but before making those steps, we wanted to hear more clearly for our future steps as well. We will share more with you on those future steps in the future, as we are still seeking the Lord on details with that...

OUR IMMEDIATE STEPS

 These past months we have been blessed by our parents as the have so graciously hosted us and yet we knew that it was time for us to get out on our own, to get our own place, to get the kids back into school, get our own car, etc. etc. etc. While at the missions conference we were able to meet a lot of other missionaries and catch up with a few that we have met throughout the years. The was one couple in particular, Tim and Talisa Rogers, that I have helped in the past down in Brazil, that are also at a transition time in their lives and have been staying on the Bible College campus in Murrieta for the past four months or so. After talking with them a few times, they told us how they would be moving to Costa Mesa at the end of the week. After hearing a little more with what was involved in the place they stayed at on campus and after talking about it and praying over it, I decided to make the steps to see if it was a possibility for us to be able to stay in this place. So on the last night of the conference, at the end of dinner, I talked with Tim and asked him who I would need to talk to regarding this place. After hearing who it was I needed to talk to, I immediately turned to a pastor friend of mine and told him, "We need to get a hold of ____(name not necessary)_______." He then called him and connected him and I on the phone. I told him our situation and asked if it would be possible. He then told me that I would need need to get a hold of another man and relay our situation and his agreement to the situation. If I have not totally lost you in all of this, the answer came the next morning and it was, "Well, we don't have anyone lined up for the place and so you guys are totally welcome to move in as soon as you would like."

Now before I finish the story I want to share with you some verses that the Lord really spoke to us during a time of afterglow on one of the evenings and then again the following morning during our devotions.

"Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?  (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."

As we were coming to the end of the conference, we began to think of our immediate steps that were ahead of us and began to worry a little bit about those immediate steps. After surrendering it all to the Lord once again, He was so faithful to speak to us once again through His Word! He is so good to us!

So back to the story! On Monday, January 9th, we began our move to the Bible College campus in Murrieta, California. We have spent the week setting up our little place and getting all of the paperwork together to get the girls into the local public school. So, it looks like the girls will begin Kindergarten and the 1st grade classes at Alta Murrieta Elementary School on Tuesday, as Monday is a holiday. There are still a few steps that we need to finalize with the girls paperwork for the school, but they are going to let the girls begin on Tuesday morning. 

Please do be praying for the girls as they begin on Tuesday morning! 

 I will be meeting with the director of the Conference Center on Monday to see how I will be able to help out on the campus here. This will not be a paying job, but it will help us to live here on campus for free and take care of our meals as well. I will still be looking into getting a job in the near future, but one step at a time. There may be a few doors opening up for that as well, we shall see.

So there is still so much more to share with you, but I will leave you with that much for now. Please do continue to pray for us as week continue to seek the Lord in all that  He has for us in this season! Here is a picture of the kids eating breakfast on our first morning here at the campus!