I have to confess that I have really gotten hooked on watching Bollywood movies. We watch them in Hindi with English subtitles. I have begun to want to learn Hindi. For whatever reason, I feel this need or desire to be able to communicate in Hindi. Pretty crazy since I live among the Tarahumara people in Mexico (not a hotbed of Hindi for sure!).
Each month, our mission organization, Youth With A Mission, holds a day of prayer on the first Thursday of the month. As I was looking at the resources for this day in December (http://www.prayerday.org/), lo and behold I discovered a couple of articles about India - very interesting! Then, I went to the international website for YWAM, and there found an article about a ministry in Pune City, India (http://www.ywam.org/articles/article.asp?AID=756). This ministry, Vanitashray, seeks to practically serve women and children in this area. In reading the information on their website (http://www.vanitashray.org/), I have committed to praying for them daily during 2010. I would like to invite you to join me in this effort.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Surrender
We have been getting ready for the next Discipleship Training School to begin on Monday, Jan. 11th. The theme for this year's school is "Surrender" as described in Philippians 2:5-8.
"Have this mind among yourselves, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross."
This is such a challenging portion of Scripture for me personally - all about dying to self, not holding on to my stuff, my rights, my expectations. Oh, how I need God's grace daily!
Here is the photo which I used in the cover I designed for the notebooks (for some reason I could not post the cover in its final form):
Please keep the Kaemingks, the Heislers, Dwayne, and us in your prayers as we begin this school with the students next week. We are expecting at least 6 students and maybe as many as 12-14 students (we never know until the day the school begins).
"Have this mind among yourselves, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross."
This is such a challenging portion of Scripture for me personally - all about dying to self, not holding on to my stuff, my rights, my expectations. Oh, how I need God's grace daily!
Here is the photo which I used in the cover I designed for the notebooks (for some reason I could not post the cover in its final form):
Please keep the Kaemingks, the Heislers, Dwayne, and us in your prayers as we begin this school with the students next week. We are expecting at least 6 students and maybe as many as 12-14 students (we never know until the day the school begins).
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