It was really wonderful to have our church over to our home for the first time last Tuesday, as we have settled into having people over and it feeling normal. Sofia can't remember what life used to be like before being able to run outside and go find friends at any of the houses around us:). You can see our Friday trip to get Jessica's passport on the video--as we are working on all the details of our trip back to the USA in two months--TWO MONTHS? But first, we are working on all the details of big celebrations at all the Living Stones programs for Children's Day in two weeks. It is always a great time for the kids, and a neat time of adults coming together to help out those who otherwise wouldn't get to celebrate Children's Day: holidays are for those who can pay for them. Caid preached on Sunday (in Portuguese, obviously), and it was really great to see how comfortable he was with "telling them what God was telling him" as he put it. We are blessed.
Reads from the Interwebs:
1. I Hate that there has to be Adoption: " I was so fixated on the rescue and the redemption that it was easy to just skim over the grief."
2. A Modest Proposal for Short Term Missions: basically anything on this site is gold. Just sayin.
3. When Missions Affects Family Planning: So true, many professions affect family planning--I think you just don't think about it being a part of missions when you go into it. But Caid and I have had many, many conversations about this, and the title is true. I think the scary part of it is that in being a missionary--part of the hardwired part is that you follow God's leading--even if He leads you away, or somewhere else. Missions holds certainty in loose hands. So what if you choose not to have children, just to return "home" and really wish you had had more children? There is a lot of trust issues that need to be faced.
4. Not Changing the World
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