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lightning bolts and missions

I had one of those lightenting bolt moments yesterday. Abosultely NOTHING to do w/ANY of the stress in my life. As you know, I have felt that Mat will probably be called as a missionary in some way. This thought has been returning to me. I realized a while back that this would feed his want to travel and see exotic species.;)

Also, I have 'issues' w/our chruch. Some big some litte. I'm not going to get into them now. But the pastor started his sermon about our mission program. I knew that we are more mission minded than most churches. But I guess that I did not realize HOW MUCH MORE. Our VBS program #s rank w/Indy and Ft. Wayne! This is a town of MAYBE 3000 ppl!!!!!!! The missions (local, national and international) that our church supports is that of what most churches w/3 times our congregant #s! I realize this is a lot of numbers, but I relate well to numbers.;)

So then it hits me that maybe THIS IS WHY WE ARE THERE!!!!! It hit me when the pastor asked everyone who had gone on a mission trip to raise their hand and this tiny hand of my 5yo sitting in front of me put his up. Not many 5yo can say that they have been on a mission, gotten something out of it, want to go back and even SUGGEST going back!

I'm still praying that my discernment is not being clouded by ME in regards to Mat.

But I truly did not realize how really blessed I was about my passion for missions and being in that church.

Thank you Evan for showing me this. You will be missed greatly. But I know that you are going where God wants you and that you will continue His work wherever you are.