  I know what you mean about the roller coasters, Treb. Staying off the ones I know will make me throw up is my problem!!!!! As you guys now know, I have a job and I love it. Due to privacy reasons for the girls, I can't write out a whole lot, but I can tell you that two of the girls have asked if they can get permission to start coming to church at New Covenant.
They had been going to Spiceland Pike but they just don't feel involved or included in a lot of things, so they haven't been going in quite some time. We'll see what God does there. I recently have had the urge... No, that's not the right word... I don't know. Let's put it this way. My heart has been aching for Africa unusually strongly lately.
I know this isn't the right timing, but I can't help but wonder if that time is drawing nearer. For those of you who don't know my entire life's history as of yet, (give it some time :)!!! ) then you don't know that I've been called to Africa. More specifically, I've been called to Zaire, or what's now known as the Republic of the Congo.
Right now, there is a national upheaval with so many civil wars and uprisings that no missionary has yet dared enter the country for fear of their lives and those lives of the people they would be tending. About 10 months ago, Dave Ohlerking, the president and founder of Children's Cup, an international mission program as well as relief program, visited the Dream Center. He spoke to the church about the call and how to define the specifics of the call. Along with several other men in the Children's Cup foundation, he has set up many different orphanages for children left alone due to parents dying of aids and other calamities and Dave told us about the severe need to minister to the natives without any sort of hope. Don't misunderstand me. While his message was eloquent and very moving, his fine speech wasn't what convinced me to go to Africa. The call has been there since I can remember. I just haven't had any idea how to fulfill it. Dave may be helping with that. A few months late, Dave came with two of his colleagues from Children's Cup who were workind in different countires.
They took all of the interns aside for a time of questioning since they are starting an intern program for those interested in African ministries. They wanted our input on how to run an internship program and gave us the opportunity to interview them about what they do in Africa. Dave already knew about the call for Africa I have, so he didn't really say much to try to provoke me into questioning, he said later on.
But I couldn't help but ask for as much information as I could about what was going on in Zaire and the status of the people. It was so hard to hear... God, help them! But, anyway, after the interview, Dave and Dave, (a different Dave) and Ben took me aside and told me they would be honored if I would join their internship program. I would study under them for a year, whenever I was ready, and then be launched into Zaire with their support and blessing.
God, why is this so heavy on my heart right now? I've commited to THIS internship program... After just going through a PREVIOUS internship... And another one? What's going on? AM I supposed to go? If so, when? And how in the WORLD am I going to raise that kind of support? You know the problems, God. And only You have the RIGHT answers. Any time You're ready to give those up, let me know!!!!!
*****Insert***** The reason I put this on here? I need to hold myself accountable. Especially when it comes to God's plan for my life. I need to make sure this stuff isn't festering in me, like it has been, and then pops out in an unmanagable way. I also know that getting this out helps me to think it through and let my mind process what's going on inside it. Make sense? 
