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Yarrr, happy Talk Like a Pirate Day, maties!

100% Support

Today, I reached 100% of my monthly financial support as a missionary with Wycliffe Bible Translators.

I praise and thank God for how He has worked in my life and in the lives of my supporters, having raised up both prayer and financial partners to be a very important part of my ministry with Wycliffe. This has definitely been all God.

After 18 months to go from 0% to 100%, it’s been a long, sometimes discouraging road, but I am thankful for how God has worked in me and taught me through it, shown me how I’m relying on Him so much, and for the many encouraging relationships that have developed.

The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares the Lord of hosts. Haggai 2:8 ESV (See also 1 Chronicles 29:11-16, Psalm 50:10-12, Deuteronomy 10:14, Psalm 24:1)

Reproved

Interestingly on the heels of leading Bible study on Reproof, and Pastor Alex’s sermon involving reproof, I recently experienced once again that sharp pain in your heart.

But in the midst of the pain and as I observed the way reproof and reconciliation works in a Biblically-minded body of believers, I rejoiced and was praising God as I saw the beauty of how the local church works, despite past rough circumstances or relationships, as we prioritize and submit to God’s Word.

Just as in Proverbs 9:8, I was amazed as I did indeed feel a great love for my reprovers welling up inside me.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.
Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold is a wise reprover to a listening ear. Proverbs 25:11-12