Alone Again

Alas, Corey and I are alone once agian. It has been wonderful having Emily and Will here for the past 5-7 months and Merryn, and all the other people who have been down.

The last few weeks have been filled with Spiritness and an out pouring of God's love. It has been a wonderful past four weeks. Will, Emily, Corey and I just really started to spend time together in a spiritual way, as i was reminded, over my weekend retreat, the souls of the workers are far more important than the work of the workers. Corey and i deeply cherish are time together as i hope Will and Emily do.
Beleive it or not it is easy to love the people and love the work so much that you forget about yourselves and about the spiritual fuel you need to keep going. I'm talking about something more than Sunday morning church, and monday night young adult bible study, and even more than prep time for teens and childern's bible studies; i'm talking about a true gathering of the workers hearts and souls and spending time sharing and listening and praying together seeking out Christ will for our lives and work. Praise God for this time with the Lord.

In case you are curious over the past few weeks we have been able to minister to people in the community in a way we haven't before, using Christmas as the reason. We had the blessed chance to take cookies and oranges to the Chatom jail and were able to pray with all the inmates there. We also had a chance to take oranges and a christmas note to the teachers and staff out at the elementary school. And we were able to deliver homemade hot cocoa to all the folks that live around the circle here in the community. Corey and i were also able to send out christmas cards and photos to all the churches and folks that have been down since Corey and I have been here. I'm sure that there are other things that I have fogotten that we have done, like having christmas parties, baking endlessly, and still managing to deal with the day to day stuff, where God has awsomely and amazingly worked.

Although Corey and I will miss our wonderful families this Christmas we feel more than blessed to be here to share in the community Christmas festivities and to be doing the service of the Lord. We are going to be "out of the office" starting tomorrow through the 27th but are looking forward to the UNCG group coming down in January and hopefully Joe and Sean the week after Christmas.

So to everyone in North Carolina, and to those others spread around
have a very Merry Christmas from here in Sanktown.