Thursday, April 30, 2009

Share the Ride with Us


Being faith missionaries is a wild ride. Like a roller coaster, it can be exhilirating and scary at the same time. You can go from peaks to valleys in a flash. And we must depend on God's hand to keep us on the tracks at all times.

Margaret and I have had the amazing opportunity to be on that ride since 2002. When we began as new missionaries, many of our friends and supporters told us they enjoyed hearing our personal stories. And we not only enjoyed telling them, we also felt compelled to share them to give God glory for the miracles He was showing us.

As our ministry grew and God used us to launch a new mission organization, The Rock Outreach, Inc. (http://www.rockoutreach.org/), we have been focused on sharing the vision God has given us for The Rock. We are excited about seeing God break the cycle of poverty in Africa through the power of Jesus. We are raising up disciples and leaders who are spiritually and economically free.

As we focused on building an organization through The Rock to provide mercy homes, educational training, business development and mentoring in Africa, we told our personal ministry joys, challenges and stories less.

The purpose of this blog is to re-ignite sharing of our personal praises and pleadings with God. We want our prayer warriors to get the behind-the-scenes story so you know how to intercede for us and give God glory of ministry triumphs.

So here we go. Let 'er rip!