Happy Birthday, Lisa!

First and foremost! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LISA! Before breakfast, we had a little celebration. But during our class, she had a cake complete with candles. (If you counted the candles though, today she celebrated sweet 16.) At lunch the whole base sang Happy Birthday again. Happy birthday, Sweetheart!

After breakfast on Thursdays, the base takes time for intercessory prayer. Today our prayer emphasis was for the F.A.N. ministry (Friends of All Nations). They work with international students at the local universities. They help the students as they learn the language and culture. They help them obtain needed services. They provide fellowship and cultural activities. And of course, through it all, they share Christ. After interceding for a number of specific needs of the ministry, we prayed for the directors. It was a very powerful time of prayer. It was awesome knowing that God understood and cared about each prayer as people spoke out in English, Korean, and Madagscar-ean (Sorry, I suppose I need to find out what language the student from Madagascar prayed in.)

Adriana’s COD class joined us. She too, was moved by today’s prayers. How grateful we are to have the burden of discipleship of our girls shared by so many people: family and friends at home as well as new friends from around the country and around the world.

After that, it was on to class. We continued the topic of spiritual warfare with Dean Sherman. It has been a great class.

After lunch we had our small group time. The men decided that we would like to use some of our times together to do some work for a widow down the road. One of our group happened to meet her while on a walk. So today, we went over and chopped wood.

I helped with the ropes course again before dinner. It has been very enjoyable helping encourage people to work through their fears. Today the teen son of another CDTS family helped me out. It was fun working with Josh. I presume he had fun too, since the group that was here today is a cheerleading team.

After dinner Adriana and Alexie have been helping with kitchen clean-up. It isn’t exactly their idea of fun, but I think it is good for them to have some responsibilities. They have been doing a good job. It is nice to be able to see my family throughout the day and work alongside them as well.

Grace,
Tom