Always Enough

Yo Builders,

I pray everyone who was headed home has arrived safely and is now clean and well-rested and that those who were moving on to further adventures continue with buoyant spirit.

For your post-trip follow-up reading, please consider Always Enough, by Rolland and Heidi Baker, the founders of Arco-Iris, or Rainbow, the ministry with which João and Danika and Corey and their orphanage are affiliated.

If you're not a Jesus freak like me you may have trouble swallowing some portions of the book, but it is an astounding account of what God has done and is doing in Mozambique, in which you have now had a hand.

Blessings,

Jordan

Consider Prayer

Greetings Builders,

Our time in Mozambique has come to its conclusion. Jim and Davy Rogers are just about home and the rest of us begin dispersing this morning from the Maputo Ibis Hotel for most of the points of the compass.

We've had a significant impact, through our words and actions and laughter and singing and dancing and crying, on one another, the people we've served and the people who have served us. Often, at times like this, something like grief sets in when we call to mind the intensity and intimacy of our time together and realize it's over. But we needn't suffer that grief in vain. As significant as the last seventeen days have been there is open to us an even more powerful means of effecting the lives of others: prayer. You and I might work a lifetime and never accomplish the good God can bring about in a moment. And God longs to bless His children if only we will ask. Turn your grief to prayer.

Prayer isn't hard or complicated because God is not far from each one of us, for in Him we live and move and have our being. Everything that passes through your mind passes also through the mind of God. You need only turn your thoughts towards God and you're praying.

So when you remember Luisa or Cecilia and their families or the children of the cane house or Aida or Adriano or Bennie or Miguel or Arsenio or Leonardo or Danika or Joao or Julia or Anita or Davy picking a college or Megan preparing to study in Ireland or Erinn knocking on doors that might open for her an opportunity to work in Mozambique or Sandra finding out how she'll make work with children a regular part of her life or James studying in France or Kathryne embarking on her writing career or Rahim pouring himself into other works of service or any of the other people connected with our trip, you needn't just long for their best. Ask God for His best in their lives and in the lives they touch. Just wait and see what happens if you do.

Please know that I will be praying for each one of you, that God would bless and keep and prosper you in every way. Thank you for helping make our trip so special.

Affectionately,

Jordan