Watching the Body Work

Sunday night at the Ring was really cool. No, really. We sent Amy and Leslie off to Africa. It's kind of funny because growing up in church, I'd always heard about boys going off to be missionaries and they all were going to Africa. I'm not sure why it was Africa. Apparently the "unsaved and unchurched" only resided in Africa. Good grief. The ridiculous notions I thought were truths when I was young.

Anyways, so Amy and Leslie are going to teach English to kids. More importantly they are going to serve and show people God in the way that they live and act. I'm so excited for them!! I can't wait to hear about how they've grown and what God did while they were there. Sunday night they each said a little something about how we could pray for them while they were away, and then we were asked to come down to lay hands on them and pray for their journey and experience there. It was so great to watch the body come together and corporately send them off. You could hear the praise and petitions for them as we all prayed. I wonder what the expression on God's face was. I won't have the audacity to try and comprehend His thoughts, but I'd like to think He was proud that we were acting as a body should. Sending out those to serve abroad, while others stay here to serve this community. I love it and I look forward to seeing what God has planned for this community....