Cameroon

We had some trouble getting this program to cooperate with just attaching my newsletter, so I am just going to paste the main part of the body for now….

Do you ever feel like you are living in a paradox?
• Time flies and yet stands still
• Ready to move on, yet not ready to let go
• Desiring simplicity, yet creating complexity

As Christians, our lives are a constant paradox as we seek to balance this life and the next, who we are in this life and who we are in Christ.
• We are expected to be in this world but not of it
• Called to holiness, yet saved by grace

In fact God (who is both JUST and extends GRACE) seems to also work in a seemingly paradoxical manner,
• Displaying his great strength through our weaknesses.
• Dying to give us life
• He was sinless yet condemned; we are sinful, yet saved.

Likewise, paradox is a pretty accurate word to describe many aspects of the lives led by many of our missionary children, military children, and other ‘third culture kids.’ Imagine a life in which ‘going home’ means leaving everything familiar, feeling most comfortable where you look like you do NOT fit and alienated where others expect you to find familiarity. Please pray for our missionary kids as they grow up in the balance between life on the ‘field’ and life at ‘home.’

This past month I have grown more aware of some paradoxes in my life. Through God’s provision, I am thrilled to say that my house is finally on the market, yet there is also some degree of sorrow in letting go. It is amazing to sit back and reflect on the many ways God has used that house to bless me in recent years. My dad and I have enjoyed many hours working together on various house-related projects, the spare bedroom has often been occupied (sometimes for a night, others for a month or so), and I have learned so much about owning and maintaining a home. Please pray that a final blessing will come through its sale, as I am counting on the proceeds to pay off my student loans, allowing me to head overseas without the burden of any financial debts here.

In recent weeks I have been blessed greatly by the opportunity to share with others the great journey on which God is taking me, yet I realize more each time I speak somewhere that moving on also means saying goodbye on some level. My calendar is slowly gaining speaking engagements, my mailing list is getting longer, and my list of prayer and financial partners is growing. Please continue to pray that God will provide additional speaking engagements, prayer partners, and financial partners, claiming with me his promise to complete the work He has begun.

As always, I appreciate your support, treasure your prayers, and leave you with my favorite prayer (from Ephesians 3:16-21) – “I pray that out of His glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurable more than all we ask or imagine, according this power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.”
In Him, Kristi