Sunday, June 7, 2009

Weekend Report

We spent Friday night and Saturday morning at Beulahland Bible Camp hanging out as a team. It was great to bond with old and new friends while we did some cultural presentations, shared what God's doing in our lives, prayed with our partners and studied God's Word. It was exciting to hear two of our team mates express a desire to be baptized. Both of them had been baptized at a young age but wanted to be baptized now as a public statement regarding their faith. What a cool end to our time together.

Because of people's schedules, it didn't work to get baptized right then but they planned an evening baptism and invited a few others via text message to join in the celebration. It would have been great to have the whole church family but it wasn't really a baptism that we planned in advance.

There is a lot to be decided and figured out for our trip yet. We have several trainings to get under our belts. Currently though we know that God is at work and we're surrendering to Him about it.

By the way, a few people have made it their goal to not complain one single time while we're gone for 9 days. Pray for them. And pray for the rest of us that God will work in us so that we might not complain either. God calls us to suffer for him and we know that growth will come from that but I'm not sure that anyone is asking for suffering at this point!