I’m so thankful for this opportunity to be here. It’s been really great to get to spend time with Ang and Cassie. Little Cassie says my name now every once in a while and I love it. We spend lots of time together making meals for Ang and sometimes the whole team. This morning we made eggs and Cassie was cracking open the eggs with a little help. She’s such a great little helper.
It’s been really great getting to know the team and watching Ben and Ang in their leadership roles. I’m so proud of what they are doing and of how they are pouring their lives into the ministry of making leaders and teachers of the Word. They have a great way with their students and the people of Armenia.
I have a few little snipets of my diary that I thought I’d put in for you…so you can hear some of my reflections from being here.
Cassie and I went to church this sunday (Ang stayed at home to rest), so we sat at the back of the little church (which is really just a little cement basement). It was so refreshing being in the presence of people who were just hungry for the things of God. After church we gathered in the Pastors home and ate lunch. The Worship leader and her team had some impromptu worship time after lunch. She sat down at a piano (which was quite out of tune), but nonetheless it was beautiful.
Worship……is what wakes people’s souls up. It penetrates the layers of materialism and our focus on the world and gets us to the intimate place where abandon and sacrifice are wrapped up in the desire to love, and thank God for all He’s done. Lord, what a responsibility for worship leaders….so take people to the place of experiencing Your Presence so that the church for a time are broken away from their reality and taken into the real place of God’s working. Lord, help my eyes to be opened to this reality every day, to be at the place where I don’t live for Liza but for Christ. Lord, how quickly I need to be reminded of this. Lord, soften my heart to hear Your truth. Set me free from all that holds me back from being fully surrendered to You."
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