BURN, BABY BURN!!!

Yup-add lots of fuel to the fire because we have a MORTGAGE to burn!!! You read that right-we just paid off our mortgage and it is time to burn the papers! Growing up I never thought much about mortgages, much less that anyone paid them off!! This is a huge relief as we had to use our monthly support to pay the mortgage before we got renters. Now we are able to have a little cushion of income from the house.
YEAH!! PRAISE THE LORD!!!

SOUL SHAPING
I am starting a new bible study called “Soul Shaping: A Practical Guide for Spiritual Transformation.” I am just into it, but it is taking a hard look at the potter and the clay and the process of being transformed into what God has for you. Please pray for time to focus on doing it, for the Lord to work in me in the process. Oswald Chambers said, “The process is the end. It is the process, not the end, that is glorifying to God.”
Once the summer/winter teams are done, Lori and I will look to do Beth Moore’s Esther or The Patriarchs Study. I started the Patriarchs right before we left and got about half way through, so I am looking forward to redoing and finishing that one.

BAPTISM IN A FUTBOL COUNTRY
We haven’t had time to hear the full story, but Paul was baptized in the Chongwe River on Saturday. I believe he was baptized as an infant, but wanted to do a “believer baptism” and figured his new home in Zambia would be a great place to do it. Five years or so ago, the first time he was here, it really changed him. Or that is the very short of it. We missed it. I am only slightly holding back my annoyance!! It was a futbol day…so they apparently had to do it in a hurry and didn’t have time to tell us they were heading down to the river. Yes, there is blame to go all around-they didn’t call, we didn’t come down right away…
I guess that is part of the way life is when you live in a futbol country. If it is game day, everything gets done right away!
Maybe we’ll get some pictures from someone else’s camera… Oh well.