Wednesday, July 25, 2018

The News From Our Corner of the World & Beyond

It’s been a few weeks since I have written on my blog.  I continue to be amazed at God’s mercy in the Thai Cave Rescue and encouraged by Adul, the boy who spoke English and is a Christian.  While all his teammates are going through the ceremonies to enter the monkhood at the Buddhist Temple, Adul is the only odd boy out.  He is not participating because of his Christian faith.  What an encouragement to stand firm in the faith.  I appreciated his show of respect to the widow of Saman Gunan who died in the effort to save the boys. God bless him.


And now I turn to the trial of Tom Chantry.  I am praying for justice to be done, for the victims to find closure and peace, for all the truth to be revealed and those pastors and leaders in ARBCA who have tried to conceal the extent to which Tom Chantry abused these individuals to be exposed for the evil they allowed to go unchecked all these years.

Sadly, in the church, we had been a member of, all we were told was to pray for Tom Chantry because he had been arrested for something from his past.  We were left to our own imaginations as to what that might be and having been taught to "put the best construction on things" we naturally assumed it was something from before he became a Christian.  The victims of this man need prayer as well.  It is very difficult for them to come forward and talk about this.

Todd Wilhelm is posting a daily blog and twitter posts on the proceedings in the courtroom.  You can follow him on Twitter to get the latest updates.

At the church, we have been attending since leaving our previous one,  we have enjoyed the messages in Hebrews 11 and now starting into chapter 12.  Such good stuff and encouraging to our faith.  The old hymns of the faith that I grew up with are sung with joy and conviction.  The people are filled with joy and we feel very welcome there.

We are in full swing into fire season now.  With hot, hot weather forecasts and new fires starting all around the state every day, our firefighters are being kept very busy.  We normally don't think much about evacuation plans because fire has never gotten much closer than five miles from us.  But since they are telling us this is going to be the worst fire season ever, we are thinking a bit more serious about it.  I do have an evac list made on my phone.

Nathaniel is job hunting.  We are hopeful something that matches his skills and needs will turn up soon

Sarah has been hired permanently in North Carolina to work for Classical Conversations.  She is now officially a North Carolina resident.  We have mixed feelings about that.  When she left, I had it in my mind that she would only be gone for six months for the apprenticeship.  Now it all seems so final.  We miss her a lot.  But we would rather she be happy in her job and far away than be at home and unhappy in her work.

Rick has some health challenges we are dealing with and would appreciate prayer for wisdom in that.

I am just plugging away, doing what I always do.  Trying to keep everyone on track and the house in order.

DJ the dog is always up for a walk and keeps us entertained each day.

Well, that pretty well sums up the news from our corner of the world.


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