dry

So I mentioned that Christmas was pretty much just another day this year. That’s not only because of being here away from family and the climate. The truth is, it has been tough-tough to take the time with God that we need to. I was just thinking how blahh our posts have been lately. We aren’t ourselves really being challenged spiritually (by others-we’re regularly challenged by the conditions of being here!), held accountable to others, we are often too tired to do much. I know my devotional life has suffered-yet God is faithful to hear and answer prayers. What would we do without the hundreds of people praying for us daily when we sometimes can’t pray for ourselves? We do so miss our prayer group and our “iron sharpening iron”. There is a little here, just thinking of other people living so nearby and knowing they see and hear what you do… Whether we like it or not (we don’t), we are seen as “Gospelink” here, we are the “director” here-that is how we are viewed. Really, we are pretty low on the totem pole-we are the newbies! We can tell them numerous times that we aren’t any higher up the chain than they are, but they don’t see it that way. We are from the States…
Anyway, all that to say it isn’t exactly appropriate either for us to use the national staff here at the college to confide in. We are really looking forward to Paul and Lori getting here! We will also be having some other Westerners coming through in the next few months. Nathan is working short term with Gospelink in Malawi but has to leave the country for a month due to visa processes, so he is coming here to help. His dad should also be coming for two weeks to teach a course at the school. Our missions chair said he would send someone to check on us after three months, which will be February (HINT HINT TONY!!!). The first group of summer teams comes in April, then there are teams through July, and then Paul & Lori should arrive!!! So please pray for us during this dry season of life-even though it is rainy season here! :-)