What a great month it has been! God has been blessing my life as well as others abundantly and I give praise to Him for that. Just this past week my sister (Else) and her husband (Norm) came to Louisville to surprise our mom for her 50th birthday! It was great to spend quality time with the family as a whole, back together again. Now, the house is empty once again. Else and Norm left in the middle of the week and just this morning (5am) Koos left to go back to Vietnam for a year and a half. It is so great to see God working in our lives and that He allows us to travel to many places in order to do His work! It is sad to see Koos leave but I’m so thankful that he has found a place to serve. It is also a testimony of how we should leave our plans up to God and our wishes and that we shouldn’t try and take control! Koos, like me, is super outdoorsy and we could live in a tent for a year in the middle of a jungle if we had to. But God has other plans for Koos- those being to live in the middle of a city with 6 million people! Our mission field, wherever we may be, will take us out of our comfort zones but it creates a bond between you and God that you will trust Him in any circumstance.
Finding out what God has in plan for you is half the battle. It is not up to us to plan where our lives are going to be and how perfect they will be. God can flip that in a second. Our lives are to follow Christ wherever He leads us. I continue to seek guidance in what I will do in my life. I believe God is calling me in to the mission field as a pilot and will work out all the kinks as I come to them. For instance where to go to mechanics school. I would love to live out west somewhere but I know that it is all in good timing and that God will take me where I need to go. The other day I got to meet a new friend, Sarah, who is interested in missionary aviation! I am so excited and thankful that God put her in my life to encourage and to share with.
One more great thing that God is doing in my life is a GIS project. GIS (Global Information Systems) is a map making tool and I am currently taking a class to learn how to use it. I am working on a large project for MAF Lesotho where I map out all the airports, health clinics, what the terrain is like, and other factors. This will help them to see where the best place would be to put a new airstrip. God has given Koos this ability (to use GIS) to teach me so that I may be able to use this skill in the future. I enjoy all the little things God is doing in my life.
Prayer and faith are the keys to living a life according to God’s will. Please pray for:
~ Koos as he is travelling to Vietnam as well as his ministry and teaching in Hanoi.
~ Me- guidance in where to go in the future, what to study, and to grow in my faith in the Lord.
~ Missionaries and to be missionaries- that they would put their full trust in God that He will lead them.
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Take a moment out of your busy day to read these verses and pray about what God’s purpose is for your life.
Jeremiah 1:5-7
Psalm 57:2
Proverbs 19:21
Psalm139:13, 16-17
1 Corinthians 4:12
Remember... we are the little lion and God is the big one. He is in charge, teaching us everything we need to know and leading us wherever we need to go!
Fly with Christ,
Helen
