All In for the Mission of God: October Holiday and Time

All the plans for world travels were discussed greatly prior to leaving America in July. I thought every time that there is a holiday or long break I would be gone. But my plans were not God's plans and I am so grateful for that. I could have gone back to Bali, or explore some new places for October holiday, but instead I stuck around the big JAK. It was a blast. There were days that I got to sleep in and relax and other days where I had the opportunity to wake up early. Many of the days I hung out with people from church and one of them I got to go to a waterfall. It was great to be able to just relax and not worry about what was on the agenda for the next day. So yeah I may not be tan because I went to the beaches, but the fact that I got to build relationships with people that I will be around for many years was fantastic.

Time seems to be a recurring narrative of my life in Jakarta. This week making 3 months. But time is a gift that God gives. This week God's timing was truly a blessing. These last few weeks at church we have been discussing what it looks like to be on mission for God in the places that we are at. I had been thinking about it a lot. I have my students that not all of them know Christ and others that I interact with, but don't yet speak fluent Bahasa to be able to carry a conversation. So I had been asking that God would bring somebody in my path that I could build a relationship with that does not know Him. So let me tell you how this all fits in with God's timing. Friday was one of my friends birthdays, a school basketball game, and worship night at church. Many options and only one of me. So I decided to go to the party. On the way to the party a few of the teachers needed to pick up snacks. We stopped and while there they eagerly wanted to find canned pumpkin (not easy to find by the way when it is pushed back behind the fruit cocktail) anyway while up there I saw somebody that I met when I first moved here. As we were leaving I realized that they had way to much to get back to their apartment so I carried it back with them. When we got to the apartments I realized that they lived right across the hall from my friend's apartment. They told me to come over afterward, which I did and was able to hang out and begin to build that relationship with them. All this because of God's timing in it. I am thankful for the fact we needed to look for pumpkin filling.

So I apologize no exciting stories of trips in the jungle, the smogcrete jungle will have to do for now.

As always thank you for praying, God is stretching me in ways that I never knew I needed to be stretched.

Things I miss from home:
Corn Mazes (especially Bose Family farm)