Preparing to Return

Although I am now using this blog site to journal about my year long LST internship in Natal, it is the original site that I used last year for my fist LST mission trip. So, I am leaving the posts from 2007, for the sake of posterity, but if you are just interested in my current work,
START HERE!
It has been 391 days since my last post and a lot has happened.
Late last summer, my husband, Greg and I started discussing the possibility of going to Natal, Brazil for a year long LST mission project. We were aware of the ripe fields there and at the time the workers were few and we felt God calling us to get into the field. LST agreed to send us and Comunidade de Cristo agreed to accept us along with Lacy Hefley. All we needed to do was raise $50,000 and pack up our lives in Russellville. God provided the money, I quit my job (Greg will continue to do his job part-time from Brazil), we sold our home and now we are ready to go. Actually, our original plan was to leave July 7, but God's plan must have been different because it is now July 29 and I am still in the USA as I write this. Lacy received her Brazilian Visa and left on the appointed day but Greg and I still have not received our Visas, so, we continue to wait. Our bags are packed and we are prepared to leave just as soon as those Visas come in! But as Greg continues to remind me, our "mission" doesn't begin when we arrive in Natal, our mission is ongoing and each day is another opportunity to serve and honor God and share Him with others, no matter where we are. So, that is what I will try to do, and I hope you will also!