Working, resting and celebrating...

The calendar says we have 5 1/2 weeks til our departure date! After months and months of planning and preparing, the end is in sight!

While we wait...

We're working. The adults and students are working hard to reach our goal of $54,000! This week we have more painters, mulchers and mowers out there! As a team we are somewhere around $44,000...which is quite staggering if you consider the time in which the amount has been raised! We were blessed with quite a bit in last Sunday's offering...even though the focus was on the Great Commission Fund. What an unexpected blessing!

"Put God in charge of your work, then what you've planned will take place."

Proverbs 16:3

While we work...

We're resting. Resting in the promise that He who began a good work will see it to completion. While the $10,000 still to be raised seems like a daunting task, we choose to believe the desires of our hearts will be accomplished. So while our bodies work, our spirits rest.

"Let be,and be still, and know (recognize and understand) that I am God.

I will be exalted among the nations! I will be exalted in the earth!"

Psalm 46:10

While we rest...

We celebrate. Between now and the 27th of June there is so much celebrating to be done! There are 12 seniors among our youth group who are ending their high school careers and graduating in the next few weeks! Many of those seniors will be traveling to Gabon with us, so in many ways, the month of June will be one big, long month of celebration! We celebrate the lives of these kids we've come to love almost like our own! We've been blessed to walk along side many of them all the way through their middle school and high school years. I may be biased, but I would say we have some of the best kids Lancaster County has to offer! In my own celebrating there will be a few tears, too...graduating not only these great young people, but one of my own, too!

It is a bittersweet time for us all...but celebrate we will!

"Look at what's happened! This is our God! We waited for him and he showed up and saved us!This God, the one we waited for! Let's celebrate, sing the joys of his salvation.

God's hand rests on this mountain!"

Isaiah 25:9