God’s promises are as true today as when they were spoken and given to us in His Word, yet why do we fail to proclaim these promises and actually believe them? So often we find ourselves wavering in unbelief. Also, it is so hard sometimes for us to believe in God’s grace. We always think we have to earn it or do something in order to receive it. How is it possible that we are made right with God through the death of His Son? Oh how much higher are God’s ways and thoughts than ours. His love for us is amazing! With that said…we are very excited to share with you this post. We never thought this would be possible, because it just seemed too good to be true. We were recently victims of unbelief yet God proved to us this past week that nothing is too hard for Him! As we came to Mozambique, many of you know that we have struggled with some of the ministries that awaited us. There had been some miscommunication about us working in an orphanage. We found out that we were not here to do nursing and sports evangelism, but facilitate some other ministries that were here. We thought we would be helping these ministries, but our primary focus would be at the orphanage. So we really struggled with this miscommunication, because we longed to use the gifts and skills that God has gifted us with to share with the people here. So as the months have gone by, we have waited on the Lord with anticipation. However we thought there would be no way for us to work at this orphanage as our primary ministry. By God’s grace, we found out this week that we would be able to work at the orphanage on a regular basis and not just in our spare time! Our focus will be to minister to these orphans on a daily basis! We are so excited about this and we are praising God for this incredible opportunity and for answering our prayers in this way! We believe that He worked a miracle for us! We were encouraged by this verse this past week and it really leaped off the page to us: Ephesians 3:20 “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is in work within us to him be the glory...” God made this happen in His power for His glory and we are so excited that He did!
We feel like it is such a perfect fit for us as we will both be able to use the gifts God has given to us! Jenni will be able to utilize her nursing skills, teach English, and share the love of Christ through her gifts of encouragement and mercy. Corey will be able to play sports with the orphans, teach them how to play the drums, and be a servant to the orphans in many other ways. Our hope is to build relationships through these avenues so that we can share the love of Christ with them and start Bible studies. We are looking forward to seeing how God will continue to work at this orphanage. We have already been able to work there a couple times and Corey has been teaching them some of the basics about drumming.(We tried posting pictures of this, but blogger would not allow us to post more than one.) This has been so much fun and such a blessing as Corey has really missed playing the drums. Jenni also had the opportunity to minister to one of the youth who had some health issues. Please pray with us about this exciting opportunity and that God would receive glory and that He would work out all the details that we are still unsure about.
Here are some prayer requests for this week: 1) Pray that God would work out the details of us working at the orphanage. Please pray for our leaders and the decisions that they need to make regarding our work there. Pray that God would protect us from worry as we wait on these decisions…we want to keep our eyes on Him and keep praising Him for this miracle! 2) Pray for God’s wisdom and direction with our other ministries that we are here to help. 3) Pray for patience in learning the language. We are almost to the end of our formal language learning and we are nervous to have only 4 weeks left. We have so much to learn in such little time!
