by Tina | Apr 16, 2012 | Devotional
On Wednesday morning we leave to head to Chicago to meet with the Overseer Board of Converge for this next step in our journey of discovering if GECHAAN is God’s will for our near future.
Our appointment is at 1:00 on Wednesday afternoon, and I understand we will get the opportunity to talk about our strategies and how it could affect GECHAAN as well as an interview.
Please pray that IF we are to be the people to take over for Art and Dorothy Helwig at GECHAAN, that we are approved and can move on to the next steps. Please also pray that we can get some answers on how quickly we can proceed with fund-raising and a bit clearer understanding of a time-line that we could possibly expect as well as some details that we need to think out.
We are excited and just still praying for the Lord’s Leading in all of this!!
YEAH GOD!!
by Tina | Mar 20, 2012 | Devotional
This morning Dorothy and I packed up the items we will need for our trip back to Abuja and to the airport. We need to pack “bush supplies”, food for a few meals, water, etc., as nothing is available along the way.
It was a busy day here, we had lunch with all the staff and Christopher made a great lunch of rice, beans and a tomatoe and beef sauce. Jim finished with John on the roof and sophets of the new storage building, and Dan and Pete mounted the solar panels on the roof, secured them, and moved the solar fridge to the restaurant storage room and Dan and Pete and Jim made a battery rack to hold the batteries for the solar fridge.
Dorothy showed me the place where she thinks would make a great pre-school, after school program on Fridays after well-baby checks perhaps. We finish packing our things tonight, and tomorrow will drive for 10 hours, stop, sleep, go on to Abuja, shop at the craft market, take a shower, and go to the airport for our trip home.
Thank you for your prayers, please pray we get through the Abuja airport safely and without any hassles or danger.
I am not looking forward to leaving, as it is a long trip. But I know that with leaving, we will be when God wants us back here to do more than visit. For some real work!!
by Tina | Mar 20, 2012 | Devotional
As we sat around the dinner table tonight we all commented on how much was accomplished today, our last day on this visit. The conversation at lunch could have been just the opposite. The morning was full of distractions, interruptions and progress seemed to be plodding along. But God is good and what looked like a day where nothing would get done, ended well.
As we leave GECHAAN tomorrow morning, we have been so blessed. It isn’t that anything spectacular happened but every little thing, every day, adds up. I feel so humbled and honored to have given some time and sweat to a place that has done such great work but still has such great need. Thank you all for your prayers, we felt them, and your support and encouragement.
— Pete
by Tina | Mar 19, 2012 | Devotional
Today Dan, Pete, and Jim worked on outside projects. Dan taught John, the carpenter here how to wire feed weld. They are working on some solar panel things for the solar fridge. Jim and Pete worked with that and with putting zinc on the storage shed as the Generator had to be fixed because it ran out of diesel while someone was running it and needed a guy to come fix it. Dorothy and I ran to the cloth store and talked with the tailor on some things Dorothy wants made before she leaves in May to go back to the states for a couple of months.
Dan and I walked around the whole compound and took pictures and investigated everything. Dan stepped out the land and we had a nice long discussion on the future plans and dreams here at GECHAAN and the future of each of the minstry areas with or without grants, etc. Everyone was tired and supper was very quiet as we enjoyed fresh, homemade buns right from the oven and home made white carrot soup. for Dessert we had chocolate chip pie. So good!!
Today Dan and I did a lot of talking about our plans and things and how we should proceed with God leading us each step. Now I’m off to bed, Pete, Jim, and Dorothy have already headed out to bed and Dan and Art are talking while I’m chatting here. Nighty night all!! 🙂
by Tina | Mar 18, 2012 | Devotional
Today was a beautiful day (again), the weather was warm, sunny, a cool breeze. We ate Christopher’s wonderful sweet rolls and caramel rolls and coffee for breakfast and headed out for church at 8:00. I wore one of my new Nigerian Cloth dresses (which I love), and Dorothy tried to tie a head scarf on me because women have to wear a head covering to church. Well……after laughing hysterically because I looked like Aunt Jemima, I opted for an extra hat of Dorothy’s!
We drove for about an hour or so. The roads here are so interesting, sometimes very flat and smooth, and then non-existant. Well, we got to the church in Kakara. The Kakara Baptist Church got a little stir, because they had guests. It was obvious who the guests were! Art and Dorothy are very familiar with this church, as it has been one of the most supportive for Village Meetings on HIV/Aids and testing and information.
They were singing when we got there, so we “snuck” in. They sang, danced up and put offerings in, sang, and sang some more. It was a wonderful, worshipful, loud joyous experience. The Pastor gave a wonderful message on Esther, and For such a time as this. He related this to the challenges currently facing Nigeria right now and that Nigerian Christians are here for this time.
The Pastor invited us to his house, and some of the church people brought some cold Maltex (cold is not easy to come by with only generators for electricity), and most places can’t afford that. Dan and I liked it and Jim not so much, and Pete kinda liked it. It kind of tastes like molasses, only different. Very high in B vitamins too!
We said our good byes and started back home, we got back about 1:00 and read for a while, and had a wonderful lunch that Courage fixed for us at 2:00. Then it was time for a Sunday nap! Laying on the bed, cool breeze blowing over me, hearing the bleating of sheep, a little laughing in the distance and the sounds of Gembu.
When we woke up we listened to the last part of the message that Pastor Bob preached at Edinbrook today, the prayer and last song, then walked back over to Art and Dorothys.
We are now talking with Art and Dorothy about how they first started here, and the huge way God has worked here in 8 1/2 years. God is good!!
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