Hey Guys,
It has been too long!!! Too Long for Vacation coming, too long since seeing the family, too long since anything really.
Things in Los Angeles have been good but hard. I can see this is not going to be a cake walk like I thought it was going to be. But being an on fire for the Lord person for the past 4 years I have come to realize that the really good things GOd has for us are not easy to come by and the process, well as the bible puts it, a refining fire. YOu would think after being in one place for so long (example: Friend SHips) that you wouldn't have to go through a fire after soo much time. Yeah right I can see it coming now and even feel it these past 4 weeks. New enviorement + new people + new job = Fire. Didn't they teach you that in school.
SO yeah this is what I have always wanted to do since being part of the food minstry with Friend Ships. This is the big DOG. This is where the rubber meets the road. I am going to be in charge of the churches coming and getting food. Seeing if they are reaching the people, building the kingdom, and showing people CHrist. Praying with the churches. Making sure every group that receives food from us is prayed for. We are talking about having classes for those that don't know how to reach people for Christ with food. So this is what I have always wanted to do.
It is funny how God works because for so long when I was in the food ministry at Lake CHarles all I wanted to do was be apart of a huge food minstry. Every day I would think about it and kind of not be satisfied where I was at. But what happens BOOM!!!!! EXPLOSION . . .. I get satisfied where I am at, Thanking God where I am, and what does He do bring Joel and I to Los Angeles where I have always wanted to be. Funny how that works. But Praise GOd because He knows best.
So I am in the food ministry Joel is hands on in the warehouse shipping things to other countries for churches/organizations that want to help the poor or shipping items to Friend SHips in Lake Charles so that the warehouse can be fully on the food ministry.
So that is where we stand. But in the mean time Joel and I leave on vacation in a week and a half. We are so pumped. The awesome cool thing about this is that God is making the time ZOOOOOOOM by. I mean ZOOOMMMMMMMMM baby. Because Joel has to get a 40 foot container filled for the philippines by saturday. SO time is flying because we are on a schedule.
Yeah. SO this blog was kind of crazy because I am pumped what GOd is doing and where we are going to go for vacation.
Love you all. HOpe to hear from some of you who read our blog. Matt Craven you should at least comment once if you are still reading our blog. We would love to hear from any of you.
Blessings blessings from Christ,
Dess
1 comment:
I'm glad you're pumped Dess! I must admit we're starting to get a little wigglish here ourselves. I love hearing you talk about the warehouse and the food ministry because that is where Joel and I started our travels with FShips and it stills glows as a special time in my memories. My favourite part was always when we would gather around after a van or truck had been filled, in the hot Cali sun, hold hands and pray for the food, the givers and all the receivers. Like when all the staff get together and sing happy birthday at a restaurant. But better. Powerful. What can be better than feeding people - mind, body and spirit? Can't wait to see you.
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