Week 2 of Training

“It is good to praise the LORD, to sing praise to Your name, Most High, to declare Your faithful love in the morning and Your faithfulness at night.” Psalm 92:1-2

We are in Week 2 of our Field Training in Virginia. It has been such a wonderful experience. We are completely busy but in all the right ways. It has been so nice to enjoy a roof over our heads that we can temporarily call “home” and that has been nice for the boys too. We share a living room with four other families/singles but it seems very normal for our kids. If you ask Micah where he lived before, he describes the seminary housing as: “A really big house and some people had bedrooms on the second floor and some on the third. Our bedroom was on the first floor. I miss living in our house with all of our friends.” =) One day he’ll realize that we lived in a small apartment in a big complex but until then we lived in a huge mansion with all his friends!

The boys started school last week. I was so afraid that this would be a much bigger struggle for them than it was. Kids always prove parents wrong! Ben was a concern for me because he has always been with Micah but he too has handled this transition with great stride. Today (8-2) he is the class leader and I’m sure he will tell us all about it when we get him at 3:15. Micah will sing songs to us that he has learned and has done well at making new friends. During our small group church service on Sunday he led us in a new song called “Jesus was a Child Just Like Me” and taught everyone “Jesus Loves Me” with sign language. It was so awesome to see our four year old taking a part in the body of Christ. He also opened his Bible and told us about Heaven and “Well”. He let us know that Heaven is a good place where all our tears are wiped away and there is a deep “Well” where Jesus will knock out satan and there is hot lava and none of our tears are wiped away. So I’m not sure when we will explain that there isn’t a deep well and that it’s a place called Hell but for the time being its really cute!

Cameron and I have been in deep training and it can be emotionally and physically exhausting as the Lord deepens us, stretches us, and molds us to be His bond-servants. The training for spiritual warfare will begin Wed. 8-3 and it will be enlightening yet intense. Please pray for us during these next weeks of training. I personally would ask that you pray for continued emotional healing over Cameron and me. The last baby we lost was due July 11th and the month served as a reminder of what was missing from my arms. I praise God because I have been healed and restored in a lot of ways since our journey with pregnancies has come to an end, but it is a scab that is covering a deep wound. This week especially Cameron and I have felt satan strongly trying to pick that scab and make that wound bleed all over again. We just want to abide in the healing God has started in us and the peace He has perfected over our lives and in no way want to go backwards in our healing process. Please help us in praying 2 Peter 4:10 over our lives. If you do not have a Bible present it says: “Now the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, will personally restore, establish, strengthen, and support you after you have suffered a little.” God has been ever so faithful to us after each loss and has never left us crumpled at His feet in our shattered state. It is in His restoration of my heart that I deny satan access to dare pick apart what God has previously restored in me. So please pray because this is a very sensitive part of our lives and satan is attacking where he knows it’s sensitive.

Thank you all who are coming on board to partake in a ministry that God is also calling you to. Please don’t ever underestimate your part in this ministry by your prayers. Your time in praying for the Roma is essential to advancing the gospel to this people group so THANK YOU!!!!