God Opens Doors

Sovereignty of God

My life is but a weaving, between my God and me,

I do not choose the colors, He worketh steadily,

Oftimes He weaveth sorrow, and I in foolish pride,

Forget He sees the upper, and I the underside.

Not til the loom is silent, and shuttles cease to fly,

Will God unroll the canvas and explain the reason why.

The dark threads are as needful in the skilled Weaver's hand,

as the threads of gold and silver in the pattern He has planned.

Anonymous taken from Corrie Ten Boom's, Tramp for the Lord

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Mozambique

Our team returned from Mozambique last Tuesday.  We have been pondering a lot about what we saw and learned.  I think each of us were in awe that the Lord allowed us to go.  It was an honor to spend time with both the missionaries and the nationals.  We were able to pray for many people and we were humbled by the simplicity of life in one of the poorest nations in the earth. 

We worked with Iris Ministries and their base in Pemba.  The missionaries were awesome and are giving away their lives that some might be saved.  Iris has a missions school twice a year at their Pemba base where they train both Mozambican Christians and Christians around the world.  We were able to visit the village of one of their pastors.  He has six children and one on the way.  Iris has been teaching the pastors that they have to be the example for their people.  He and his wife are now taking in 12 abandoned children.  Iris's vision is that the pastors they train receive the children who are abandoned where they can be raised by their people.  The only promise the pastor has for help is with rice and beans - and what he receives will be just enough as the village children in his area are starving as well.  He has no salary, no vehicle, no expense account, no retirement package, nothing but Jesus! Iris teaches that we as Christians should lay it all down for Jesus, giving our lives away for the cause of Christ.  Iris didn't invent this idea, it is what the Bible teaches.  As it is written, "For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been comitted, of him they will ask for more."  You don't have to be a scholar to understand the simplicity of what the life of a believer should look like.  The Bible has made it clear and simple.  May we all live a life worthy of the calling we have received!

I will post some pictures soon.  I hoped to have them up today, but I have had some technical glitches.  Thank you for praying for us!