Okay, so I flopped at journal-keeping during our trip. I was too busy knitting as fast as possible in my spare time to make a blanket for one of the ladies in my knitting class who was expecting. However, I did write in my journal the first night in Los Fresnos. Here's a bit.
"Tonight we were dropped off in Los Fresnos. We met people, helped prepare lunches for tomorrow, and saw the school before dinner and orientation. I think we'll have a good team. There was a time of singing and worship, and then a Pastor Ed Fleming shared a challenge with us. Every time I get nervous about this group (TETM), then their theology wins me over. They choose people to speak who have solid Reformed teaching and a Godward focus. Ed Fleming told us:
1. This will be a week of divine perspective: seek it.
2. This will be a week of divine providence: know it.
3. This will be a week of divine purpose: feel it.
4. This will be a week of divine pressure: obey it.
He challenged us to be open to God's changing us and to God's using us. The prayers of the other men chosen to speak were powerful as well. So far, I've still not heard David Sitton speak, but his BUP, as Ed Fleming called it, "Burden for Unreached Peoples", is impacting me through the people he's chosen to speak or whose lives he has changed.
I just hope I can sleep well on the floor tonight."
