All we can do is say thanks....

Something that still amazes us after all these years is the fact that nobody owes us anything. Without the churches support, (prayer and financial), we cannot fulfil the calling to educate leaders in the church. As people give to missionaries, we give to the ministry of our calling. We are desperately needy and yet....nobody has to give a dime. Nobody has to utter a prayer. So when people give and pray...we function in this grateful mode.

Denny usually signs his correspondence with  these words.....with a grateful heart. And he means it everytime.

As we have begun this itineration (furlough) cycle, our primary goal is to say thanks. In these difficult economic times, it is going to be hard to recoup all that our budget has lost over the last four years due to the recession, but we are full of faith that God who has begun a good work is going to finish it.

When we arrived in Phoenixville the first church we visited, we were greeted by Jamaicans, Mike and Euna. When the new students arrived on campus, there was a dessert fellowship in faculty members homes and one of our group was a Jamaican, Ron. We have been so delighted for this experience. The first thing Ron said to me, after learning of where we lived for the last four years, was WILL YOU COOK SOME JAMAICAN FOOD FOR ME??

....and that I will gladly do!