Learning to Let Go

Kenya was amazing. I'm so glad that God allowed me to go on this mission trip. He taught me & showed me so many things, but the main thing was to let go of things & let Him haldle it. One day, we couldn't find a supply bag for VBS that I was in charge of. After helping look for it for a few minutes, I went back to my class. As I went back, I was just praying "God, we really need this bag here. I don't know how, but please let this bag be here. We don't know where it is; we need it. I leave it in Your almighty hands." A very short time later, Daryl came to my class & stuck his head in the door, "We found it," he said. I thought right then, "Thank you God. Only You could do something like this." God supplied the money, the safety, the words & the courage I personally needed to speak when standing before 50+ second and third graders (speaking out loud in front of a crowd doesn't come easy to me). God taught all of us that we could go with ALOT less and still be happy. He taught me, & I'm sure most of the others, that great worship doesn't have to be wild & crazy like the video, but as long as your heart's in it, that's all God wants. Kenya is a place that I'm going back to as soon as I can, God willing, & I just pray that God will send physical rain there, yes, but also a spiritual rain. He showed me that the lost people in the slums have no hope; that the slums they live in are all there is in life. These people need Christ. They need a hope of something better than this sinful world.

- Josh C.