THE WHY

I am writing our newsletter today, and finding it hard to articulate what I feel in anticipating this trip. I want everyone to know that we are incredibly excited about serving--how amazing that these gifts and desires that we have will be used for a greater purpose than for our own gain!--but even though we don’t know the extent of it or how He will do it, we know that we are going to be greatly humbled by this trip. The truth of the matter is that we are, as Brennan Manning says, “beggars, showing other beggars where to get the bread.” We recognize that at the very core of our being, we are compelled by a Love that was given to us before we ever asked for it, by the huge, sovereign God who made himself small enough to pursue us and be in relationship with us. This is why we want to pursue and be in relationship with others, and we are grateful for this opportunity to do this in a new way.