Miscellaneous Good News: 27 April 2010

The Lord was very good to us in Cedar Rapids; He has many gracious people there.

In six months we have a meeting scheduled in Greenville, SC: Elizabeth's sibling is due to arrive on my birthday.

We are thankful for our home church's vote this past Wednesday evening.

The Bible institute students in Montevideo are praying for the Espinels' and our arrival in time for the beginning of the school year next March.

The eastern Tennessee detour around the I-40 rockslide is very, very lovely in the spring. (Jesus is fairer!)

I-40 has now been re-opened.

Kentucky again has an elk population. (No, I didn't see any.)

Iowa and Indiana

This week’s missions conference in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, ends this evening. We will visit some other friends in town before returning to Cedar Lake, Indiana, for a night or two. Please pray for the Lord to continue His work in all of our hearts in tonight’s service; for safety in travel; and for the Lord’s grace for our last couple of weeks in Greenville before beginning full-time summer travel.

Request for Prayer: April 1

For those who pray for us from time to time, please pray that we will be in Uruguay a year from today: April 1, 2011.

We don’t know everything that must take place between now and then in order for this to happen. We do know that everything that will take place between now and then has been designed by God to conform us into the image of Jesus, the end to which we have been pre-destined by grace alone (Romans 8:28-29).

Our responsibility, and the task at hand: to love and serve God and neighbor in His strength among His Church.

Soon enough He will say, “Set them apart for the work to which I have called them” (Acts 13:1-3). Until then we say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and begin service in Uruguay the first of April, 2011” (James 4:15).