Sunday in Africa

One of the difficult things on a trip like this is the time change, but the good think about that is we wake up early and see the sun rise. We arrived in Butare last night so just a few minutes ago I could look out the window.and see what this part of Rwanda looks like.  You see in this photo what I see;  beautiful isn’t it.  Banana and palm trees and an African man just barley visible who is cooing breakfast on an open fire. I wish you could hear the birds. We are preparing to go to Church.  In my devotional I read the verse, “as the deer thirst for the water brook so does my heart thirst for you O Lord!”.  God is good, His presence and love is the same everywhere.  We will go to a small pentecostal church near where we are staying, one many of the orphans in the Giving Hope program attend.  So not only will we meet God in a worship service, but we will meet some of the kids for the first time.  We are excited, to be in Africa, to get ready for Church, to get started with the Giving Hope ministry our Church will support at the level of 250,000, for the next three years, and to connect with  God, in worship, in the beautiful creation that surrounds us, in the friendships and partnership we are building, and in the hearts of us all as we thirst for God and prepare to drink.  Prayers for you.