Well, Christmas break is over and the second semester of
school is about to start! Much has happened over the past couple of months in
my life.
I’ll start with the big news from Christmas break in South
Africa. On Friday the 14th of
December me and Becca left from Accra and flew down to Johannesburg, South
Africa. Becca’s parents picked us up
from the airport and we spent the next couple of days resting and enjoying the “cool”
of South Africa’s summer compared to Ghana’s normal, everyday heat! On Monday night my parents arrived in
Johannesburg. On Tuesday Becca’s older
brother Michael and grandma (Nanny) arrived in Johannesburg. Thursday morning started the adventure! We all jumped into the van and headed for
Kruger! Well, the journey didn’t go
exactly as planned. What was intended to
be a 4 or 5 hour journey ended up taking 12 hours!! Oh well, plenty of time spent enjoying
everyone’s company and anticipating the evening’s event. I’m not going to share all of the mushy-gushy
details (sorry Kate), but the evening’s event just happened to be me asking
Becca to marry me! Lucky for me she said
yes and the next hour was spent waking up all of the cabins around us to tell
our families that we were engaged!! So
yes, if you didn’t know already, I am engaged to the most amazing girl in the
world who I spent two years living on the same street with at Liberty but never
met and had to wait until we were in Ghana to get to know (and yes I know that is a run on sentence but I
couldn’t help but share that funny piece of information that I thought is
interesting and awesome how God’s timing is perfect and amazing and how I can’t
wait to spend the rest of my life with Becca!).
Needless to say, I am excited about this upcoming summer and
the wedding, but I am also really excited about this next semester and the
opportunities I will have through Christ here in Ghana. I will have many opportunities to share the
love of Christ with those around me and am going to share a couple of those
opportunities with you in the next couple paragraphs!
A month or so ago I learned some important information about
FeFe. You remember who he is
right?! He is one of the neighborhood
boys who hangs out with us quite often.
He actually comes to church with us almost every Sunday. A few Sundays ago, the pastor came up to me
and asked if I knew that FeFe was in the kid’s room praying to Allah. I had no idea and immediately went to talk to
him. After talking to him for a few
minutes about it I realized some important things that I hope you will join with
me in praying for FeFe and other kids on the street: 1. Many of these kids have a Christian influence
along with a Muslim or tribal influence in what they believe about God and
supernatural things. 2. This confuses
them and makes them believe that the Bible and other things are all truth. (FeFe believes that Allah and God are the
same. I tried to explain to him the
differences, but it is tough to explain to a 12 year old boy who hears from
both sides since his dad is a Muslim) 3.
These kids need prayer and a lot of teaching to help them understand that only
Christ can save!! I hope you will join
with me in praying for them and for their parents to understand that none of
these other things (Allah and tribal religions) can save them!! The two do not mix!
I am also excited for the upcoming semester at school. Many times it is easy to get focused on all
the things I need to do and forget the eternal purpose in everything that I
do. Over Christmas break I have been
reminded of the purpose for why I am here and the eternal significance of
everything I do and my attitude in how I do it!
I have been reminded to DREAM BIG and pray for God to do big things
through me and in me. So many times I
get caught up in the daily things and forget to depend and trust Him and no
that HE IS GREAT and HE IS GOOD! So I
need to depend on Him and seek His power in all that I do. So please pray for me to be reminded each day
of the eternal significance of my time spent here no matter who I am with or
what I am doing that day (also, please remind yourself of this truth in your
life! Everything you do can be used to
glorify our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!).
I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year
and are looking forward to all of the things God will do in and through you if
only we will let Him and ask Him to!
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