I know it's been a while since I last Blogged. This time I'd like to go into a little more detail about how God is changing our hearts and minds about our Calling. Where are we and what is Children's Bible Ministry?
What is Children's Bible ministry and why do we love it so much? The time it got started was when prayer was taken out of schools. A man in Florida was burdened and started getting school districts to allow "Release Time" which is where they take kids out of school for an hour once a week to hear a bible lesson and learn about Jesus. From Florida "Release time" moved up the east coast. In the 70s CBM opened the first Summer camp in Florida. This gave the kids from "Release Time" opportunities to leave a secular home and praise the Lord for a whole week.
Since the 70s CBM has opened 7 camps here on the east coast.
Here is where we come in. There are 2 camps that are fairly new one in Virginia about a 2 hour drive and one in southwest Pennsylvania about 4 hours.
Rob has been developing a gift for repairing and building things. The SW Pennsylvania camp has only been running Since 2010 and still needs Full Time missionary staff and one need being facility upkeep. Virginia is also in need of Full- time staff but what the needs are? We are not sure yet.
Why have we fallen in love with them? Because of their mission and the new lives they give these kids. They are going after this generation as young as 5 and someone has to because a lot of these kids are raising themselves. Having 11 children come to know the Lord in just 4 months with our club in our home, has given us a taste of a ministry that we want to be a part of for the rest of our lives.
What happened to Sierra Leone?
Well it's still there duh! Just kidding we love africa, always will and we would love to go back. God however has revealed to us a couple things that kind of have shown us that He had a different plan all along. However short term trips are not out of the equation. A major one is that we have discovered that Ahna has a gluten sensitivity. If we were to go over seas full time it would be very difficult to get food over there that she can eat and her nutrition would be a difficult obstacle to over come.
The other one is that I studied nursing in a California and it will take me a lot of money to get my license here. I could already have it but if I had gotten it I would have had to change my license again in a year or so when and where ever we may serve. I guess you can say God is saving us about 400 dollars.
What's the process like?
There is the application and resume.
Then after the state board approves it there is an interview with them. Then our file is sent to the national office in Tennessee where they approve us for Candidate School. Which is a week in Tennessee getting us ready for service and support raising. Candidate school is going to be held in October this year and we're praying that everything will be approved so we can be there.
So somethings you can pray about:
1)Ahna's gluten free adjustment.
2) that Rob's job he was offered a month ago starts soon.
3) that God guides us through this application process.
4) be praying that the Lord lays on your heart churches that may want to be partners in sending us. (they will be contacted only after we have the approval to start building our support.
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