"Coincidences"

Over the last year we have seen some pretty incredible coincidences. A friend of ours says, “when you pray more coincidences occur.” We started praying about getting involved in Africa for a few years ago. We started the application process with Lifewater before leaving Truckee. After arriving in Boise we eventually found a church home at the Boise Vineyard. Step for step as we got more involved with Lifewater we saw our church becoming more and more committed to the same issues. Sunday messages started to talk about Africa and how our church could impact the world by addressing water related needs and other issues. To learn more watch this: Call to Action (20 min video) featuring our pastor Tri Robinson. As time went on the church made a connection to an organization called Seeds of Hope (who incidently is a long time Lifewater partner) in Zambia. Without knowledge of this Lifewater called to ask if we’d be interested in going to Zambia! To train Seeds of Hope staff!! It gets better… as it turns out our Lifewater trip to Zambia overlaps with our church’s first missions trip to the same city. Darcy and I will be teaching our sanitation class while the folks from our church will be helping build a new training center for Seeds of Hope. Our church's team has welcomed us to attend their team meeting every Sunday afternoon. Each week we pray about what we'll do together in Zambia and for the friends we'll meet there. We are learning about cultural differences and practicing Bemba phrases. These “coincidences” shout that God is doing something in Africa and we're getting to be part of it! It makes us view our move to Idaho in a new way and it shows us again that God is so good. Here's a Bible passage that summarizes how we feel like blocks being used to build something much bigger than ourselves.

“Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.” Ephesians 2:19-22