Go Vancouver Canucks!! Whoooo!!! 3-1 over Detroit! Those are my boys!! To all those doubters over there who say theyre not going to get anywhere because there is no scoring and no defence, I stick my tongue out at you fully of contempt, followed by a large HA! The same people who said they weren't going to get anywhere last year sing the same song every year. Well last year they were right. But come on. I mean, come on. Seriously, it's all the way to the cup this year. You may be asking yourself how do I know from Africa what on earth is going on with ice hockey? Well that is a very valid question actually. I get newsletters sent to my email about everything Canucks related. I may handle not getting to watch the boys all year, but being out of the loop all together? Not on your life. Also I have an awesome Pastor in Jeff Beck who discusses these things about the Canucks with me over email regularly. Thankyou for that Jeff. For all of those of you who couldn't care less, just humor me. The Canucks are my boys and I love them. Here is one of the coolest things that happened to me this last week. I was watching my one channel I have on my tv, which happened to be showing BBC world news, which is common. Then they went to Sports. Now generally this is cricket, football (soccer), rugby, tennis, golf, and other miscellaneous sports that don't overly interest me. They showed some of the baseball playoffs. I said to myself, okay there is the stuff for the Americans, now how about some Ice Hockey for us Canadians? I was just saying this sarcastically to myself, because you never ever ever see Ice Hockey here, but then they actually showed highlights from the Caroline / Buffalo game! Haha I have to tell you I have never been so thrilled on the edge of my seat watching two American Hockey teams playing. Totally made my day. I doubt I will see that beautiful white ice on my tv again anytime soon, so I won't forget soon either.
So back on to work. The other thing I have coming up really soon is that our church at the end of November is doing the production 'Heaven's Gates, Hell's Flames'. This is going to be really huge and we are expecting many, many people to come to know Christ during this time. So it is pretty exciting. Now where my work area comes into this is I am in charge of the follow-up of any kids who come to know Christ during this time. So that will be a big task definitely. We will have I believe 6 leaders for kids every night prepared to do kid security and having the responsiblity to connect with any kids who accept Christ on the night they are responsible for. Then of course just a couple weeks after that is done, we have the kids Christmas play, which is on Dec.17.
Please be praying for me for both of those for sure. Two huge things that are happening at Kigali CLA right now, and what I have before me is most certainly a little beyond what I am capable of doing. It is over my head and I can't do it. Though I don't say this to discourage myself or to say I give up. Just the opposite! I say this to give glory to God, because praise the Lord Hallelujah when I report to you again on here after all this is said and done and everything went off not only without any hitch but got done with total excellence in every way, you will all know that it is not by me but by the awesome power and incredible love and compassion of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Lord God Almighty that all this has been accomplished. Praise the Lord! I know He will do this because this is the purpose for which He has brought me here, and I can do all things through Christ who give me strength. He is the life preserver that keeps me afloat above the raging waters all around me, even to be able to walk upon the waters that otherwise would be drowning me. I am blessed beyond all imagination, surviving and even thriving because of my God and my God alone. Thankyou all so much for your prayers! Every one counts! Every prayers matters incredibly! Thankyou so much! I am truly blessed, and I want to thankyou all because I wouldn't be able to do it without the tremendous blessing that every last person back home is who prays for me, supports me, writes to me, reads this, or has anything to do with me and my being here. Thankyou all, and I thank God for all you. Things are going well, and while I am in a time of having very little financially, I thank the Lord God Almighty every day for all His blessings, because I have no doubt in my mind that He knows my threats and the issues that are coming against me and He alone will provide for me, and not just provide for me to the bare minimum but in full abundance more than I could ever hope for, so no worry in the least is in me. I pray that all of you see me and the awesome stuff God is doing in my life as a huge encouragement, and even in the worst of times, don't be discouraged because the God of all compassion and grace is with you even in the lowest and darkest of times. Thankyou all, thankyou for reading, and God bless you all in every last thing you do!
