Showers of Blessings!

July 13, 2009

 Standing just a few feet away from the edge of the biggest waterfall in the world makes me think of how our God pours out blessing. The water gathers speed coming down the river and then plummets over the edge of Victoria Falls, thundering down into the canyon below with such force that the natives in the area call it Mosi oa Tunya (The Smoke that Thunders). The mist is so thick that it obscures the view of the bottom of the canyon (for those brave enough to walk to the edge of the cliff and look down) and then shoots water vapor back up out of the gorge to literally “rain” down on those who look at it. 

This past week God rained down blessings on our family when a team from Wynne Baptist Church came to work with us. It was both a blessing and a challenge to see the WBC youth boldly sharing their faith and leading people to Christ! Most everyone on the team can testify to being stretched in one way or another, I know I was. It was not the most comfortable thing to go through at the time but afterwards it is so neat to see how God showed up and worked.

And it wasn’t just getting a little out of their comfort zones…     Team members literally waded through rivers, braved poisonous snakes (a cobra was killed just a few feet away from Randy and Austin’s tent), and went on long, dusty, bumpy rides to share the gospel with the Tonga people. How awesome that the team was trusting God with the results, how cool that God worked on people’s hearts, at least 90 hearts to be more specific!

All week we were so busy going and sharing and ministering that it wasn’t until the team was back in the US that  the Wilcoxes and us sat down and started counting up names of people who had made decisions. God is good. Real good.