How great the love the Father has lavished on us!

Hey Everyone!

I thought I would write a follow up from my trip and what God has been and is teaching me through this experience. I know it's been a while since I got back, but it feels like just yesterday we were leaving to get on the plane to go on the most incredible summer of my life! Time has just flown by, but there isn't one day that goes by where I don't think about my brothers and sisters in Kenya. I pray for them often and miss spending time with them and growing together in Christ. It makes me long for heaven when every tribe and nation will worship God together in unity, how glorious!

I am learning more and more every day what God taught me this summer and how he used it to change me. He showered our team with blessings that I had never dreamed of. I couldn't think of the summer going any better than it did, and I honestly believe that is because of the prayer and support from our friends and family at home, so from the bottom of my heart, thank you! God is faithful and he blessed us with an amazing opportunity to build life-long friendships in such a short amount of time.

Part of the reason it hurts so much to leave is because God granted us such great opportunities while we were there-to Him be the glory! What a great God we serve. This short time on the mission field has only heightened my passion for going and serving Him wherever he leads me. He is teaching me what it means to have patience and to wait on Him. In a conversation a few weeks ago, someone said that Passion without knowledge is dangerous and this has been a recurring theme that the Lord is teaching me--to be patient and wait on Him. And while I'm waiting He has richly blessed me with wonderful friendships and growing me in knowledge of Him at Covenant and I am so blessed to be here.

One of the main things I learned this summer was the importance of prayer and an attitude of dependence on the Lord. I am still learning what this means, but my prayer life has increased and God has granted me a wonderful ever increasing relationship with him, for which I am forever grateful. I am learning so much more about who He is, and as I'm faced with his goodness I realize just how far I fall short. He is humbling me with His gracious love and mercy. 

James, Brian, and Vincent, my sweet Pre-Unit class.

Please be praying for me, there is an opportunity to go back to Kenya in December and I am praying for the Lord's wisdom in this decision. There is going to be a camp on the Land where I stayed this summer and it would be a great opportunity to see all of the church staff, Martha and Pastor Imbumi, and the kids I was with this summer. I want more than anything to go back, but I am praying the Lord lead's me in His way and not mine. In order for me to go there would be a few obstacles to overcome. The trip is December 10-20, which is during my finals week. If this became more of a reality I would maybe be able to talk to my professors and take finals early. But of course, there is always the issue of getting support. I have some funds left over from my trip, but not enough to cover everything. I am praying if this is the Lord's will for me, then He will provide the funds, whatever that looks like. I am praying and eagerly awaiting His response on this trip. I want to be a wise steward of the resources He has given me and only pursue this if it is His will for me to go back. Please be praying with me!

Thank you for your support and love through this process. God has clearly lavished me with His unfailing and unending love.

"Christ is all, and in all." Colossians 3:11

Bwana Asifiwe! (Praise the Lord!)

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