Coming to a close....

I only spoke to Kim for a couple of minutes today, and those couple of minutes were hindered by a 3 year old needing milk, and two six year olds in desperate life threatening need of some Dill Pickle chips.  I didn't get a lot of info from her, except that she was able to go back to Sonrise for the last full day.  She went by herself, and spent the day there with the babies and the nannies.  The rest of the team went into the villages again. 

I think every mission trip yields fruit, but sometimes it's more visible than others.  According to the team, there have been many people that trusted in Christ for the first time this week, including several Muslims. 
I have to share one story in particular that a friend shared with me today.  Her husband, who is in Uganda, had called her and told her.  They were out ministering in pairs of two with translators again today.  They were told to split up the pairs, and go out by themselves with a translator, so they could reach out to even more people.  Our friend went to the home of a elderly man and woman.  When he came in and started talking, the elderly man told him he had had a dream that God sent a "messenger" that wasn't of his people.  He told our friend that he looked just like the man that God sent in the dream.  Our friend went on to share the Gospel with the man and his wife, and after talking for a while, they both trusted Christ for the first time!  If that doesn't give you chills, nothing will.  God still works miracles.

I mentioned this before, but please be in prayer for the team as they prepare to leave tomorrow.  I promise you, when they return, they WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.  I'm going to go out on limb, and say they are going to be more madly and passionately in love with Jesus than ever before.  They are going to be more passionate about taking Christ to the nations than ever before.  And they are going to be more broken than ever before.  You can't go somewhere like that, or Haiti, or Nicaragua, or Peru, or Sudan, or India, or fill in the blank of any impoverished nation, and not come back broken.  Pray for their safe travel, but more than that pray that their lives as well as ours will take the mission of glorifying Christ throughout the world to a whole new level!