Rwanda

God's Plan
Once you read this, go back to my first two posting about Rwanda, and then you will be back on track with me.

How, did this all happen? How did the Lord get us to go to Rwanda? Well it is a long story happening over the period of many years. Let me tell you the story. It started away back before I ever even met my wife Diane, back when she was just a young teenager or younger.

She went to church every Sunday with her family, it was then at that early age God started tugging at her heart strings, to be a missionary some day. Because of the missionaries that came to her church, of which many of them seemed to be missionaries from Africa, she felt God calling to go to Africa as a missionary.

If anyone who know my wife, she is very fair skinned and has always been very fair all of her life. Because of this natural condition, she some how felt this disqualified her as a missionary to Africa. She felt that there would be no way that she would be able to stand the heat and that she would just burn to a crisp. So because in her young mind, all missionaries went to Africa, she figured out that she would never be a missionary. At that point she did not know or understand as to how BIG of a God she would serve. With God all things are possible.

As she grew and remained open to the leading of God in her life, He lead her to work in Bible camps following her graduation from grade twelve at Caronport High School. She came to Torch Trail Bible Camp in North Central Saskatchewan.

It was while at camp that summer she met me, a young disturbed man, that felt the only kind of a person he was fit to be was a cowboy and that he was no good for nothing and God could not use him so he would just chase cow around all of his life, and there is nothing wrong with being a cowboy, I am still thankful for my early years, growing up as a cowboy in Northern Saskatchewan. But I figured at that point and time in my life is that, that is all there was, and so then that is what I would always be.

When I met Diane, I was in my first year of Bible School at the Nipawin Bible Institute and was just starting to understand that there was more to life than just being a cowboy, I had choices I could make and that God had a plan for my life, which would be a lot different than I had thought. Actually I found out that God wanted me to make the choice to give Him control of my life.

Two months after camp was done that year in 1977, my life would change forever, I became engaged to my beautiful new girl friend who is now my wife, then we proceeded to get married 8 months after we were engaged. So on April 29 1978 we got married. Thus began the rest of my life. I did not know it then but I was signing up for a ride that was beyond my wildest dreams. I have been places and done things that I could never have dreamed of. So it has been and will continue to be an eventful and interesting life as we let God be the guide to our walk on this earth.

Lord willing I will write more tomorrow, but for now enjoy this much of this story.

Please remember as you go through life, whether you are young or old, With God all things are possible.

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Disciple And Discipler

The verse of the day today reminded me once again that every Christian is to be a disciple and is to also be a discipler. We are responsible for the growth of the New Christians around us, and we are to be encouraging for all Christians in not being a stumbling block to them by the things that we selfishly want to do for ourselves, it may not cause us to sin, but what about our brother?
Verse of the day - Acts 1: 6-8 (The Disciples asked), Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? 7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. 8 But ye shall receive power, [1] after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem(neighborhood or city), and in all Judaea (province), and in Samaria (your country), and unto the uttermost part of the earth (to the world).

I had never really experienced the world as such before May of 2010 as Diane and I went to Rwanda Africa with e3 Partners Ministries. It was an amazing trip, I started to tell about it earlier but now I would like to finish telling it.

Since going and experiencing how God is working in another country and learned more about discipleship, God has given me a new burden for Canada,and the church. As well as a new burden for new believers. Every new believer needs a mentor, someone to model the Christian life for them. Someone to walk beside them, as an encourager and someone that can be forgiving and understand that as a new christian they are going to make mistakes. As new babies fall, hurt themselves, get up and do it over and over again until finally the they can walk. Why do we expect new baby Christians to be any different. They to need guidance and someone to lean on as they learn to walk the Christian life.

We as the Church need to provide that kind of service, for those that we see come to the Lord so that they feel that they are a part of the family of God.