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A month back I cryptically mentioned a possibility for change in our lives. Several of you kindly asked for more information so you could pray. Thank you. We are still praying, sorting, waiting. But I can share more, and ask you to pray with us for discernment. We have long wanted to use our gifts overseas. Not because there are not needs here-- we are very cognisant of the needs of our country for justice, for health care, and for ministry in the name of Christ. We are honored to worship Jesus here, to serve as His hands to the poor and burdened among us. And yet we ache for the millions (billions?) of those in the world who have no access to health care, or to the gospel. As we have been praying through these diverse strands and longings in our hearts, a job opening in Africa came across my husband's desk. A job with an American university, working in Africa in the field of HIV. (This is what my husband does.) The timing of this opportunity gave us shivers. As we did a little research on the country and even the city, we found so many ways that this opportunity might braid together the varied strands of our lives... doctoring... ministering... Anglicanism... homeschooling... My husband will go to interview (stateside) in the next few weeks, and we'll know more. My thoughts about the job are in full pendulum mode... A few weeks ago, I was at AMEN. Today I'm somewhere between too-good-to-be-true and not-the-right-time. Please pray that he will ask the right questions; that we will be discerning; that if we go, we would be running toward what God has for us, and not away from what is hard here. And please pray for unity as we seek God's will in this: that we will both listen, and both hear. |
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