Red Letters Campaign

This is an amazing campaign to know about. If you haven't already, I highly recommend reading "Red Letters" by Tom Davis. Anyone who reads it cannot be compelled to take action. Let me know what you think!

Patience, Patience, and more Patience!!!

My baby sister left for Turkey on Sunday for a missions trip through Campus Crusade. I can't help but feel so left behind!!! I long for the day that our family can go on missions trips and serve overseas! I loved that time in my life!
TJ and I were talking at breakfast this morning and it seems that the Lord is really teaching us about waiting for His timing in our lives. We want to be in Kenya so bad, but we know that now may not be that time. God has put the desire in our lives to serve in some capacity in Kenya, but we don't know how-or when. . . . and it's so hard to be patient!

But, we both know that God has gone before us and is preparing our hearts for what is ahead. We do not want to go when the time is not right.

But, God, we are sitting in Minnesota screaming "HERE AM I, SEND ME!!!!"

It's all Yours God!

As TJ and I together pray about the future of our family I can't help but be moved by the lyrics of on of Steven Curtis Chapman's most recent songs "Yours". As we sit here in Minnesota and pray for the children in Kenya, think about the rising gas prices, the past violence, the food shortage crisis and all that is yet to come, it reminds me that we don't need to fear what our future holds because God is in complete control and is preparing us (as I type this) for what lies ahead. It reminds me of the truth that God is a Sovereign God. All we need to be is willing and obedient.


I walk the streets of London
And notice in the faces passing by
Somthing that makes me stop and listen
My heart grows heavy with the cry

Where is the hope for London?
You whisper and my heart begins to soar
As I'm reminded
That every street in London in Yours
Oh, yes it is

I walk the dirt roads of Uganda
I see the scars that war has left behind
Hope like the sun is fading
They're waiting for a cure no one can find

And I hear children's voices singing
Of a God who heals and rescues and restores
And I'm reminded
That every child in Africa is Yours
And its all Yours, God, Yours, God
Everything is Yours
From the stars in the sky
To the depths of the ocean floor
And its all Yours, God, Yours, God
Everything is Yours
You're the Maker and Keeper,
Father and Ruler of everything
It's all Yours

And I walk the sidewalks of Nashville
Like Singapore, Manila and Shanghai
I rush by the beggar's hand and the wealthy man
And everywhere I look I realize
That just like the streets of London
For every man and woman, boy and girl
All of creation
This is our Father's world

And its all Yours, God, Yours, God
Everything is Yours
From the stars in the sky
To the depths of the ocean floor
And its all Yours, God, Yours, God
Everything is Yours
You're the Maker and Keeper,
Father and Ruler of everything
It's all Yours, God
It's all Yours, God
It's all Yours, God
It's all Yours, God

The glory is Yours, God
All the honor is Yours, God
The power is Yours, God
The glory is Yours, God
You're the King of Kings
And Lord of Lords
And its all Yours, God, Yours, GodEverything is Yours
From the stars in the sky
To the depths of the ocean floor


The glory and honor is Yours, everything is Yours
It's all Yours, God
My life is Yours, my heart is Yours
My hands and my feet are Yours
Every song that I singIt's all Yours, all is Yours
All belongs to You
Our gifts are Yours, God
All our dreams are Yours, God
All our plans are Yours, God
The whole earth is Yours, God
Everything is Yours