Encouragement

Today was a different Sunday. To begin, we had church at Ontario Beach park. Another congregation was also meeting at the pavilion right next to ours, so we combined services...it was kinda cool and so spontaneous. The pastors had met a couple of months ago and had talked about having a joint service at some point, but it was just a "coincidence" that we were at the same park on the same Sunday. Their congregation was racially diverse, just like ours. It was kinda neat.

This evening I attended the Foundation of Hope prayer service. It was amazing. I wish I could understand that words that were being sung. Heritage does interpret as much as possible, and he did preach in English. The people involved are just so loving and wonderful. I feel adopted into their family already and they don't even know me yet. They are encouraging. Both Heritage and Prudence offered to help me in any way, and if they could not help, they would pray for me and love me. One of the other members wanted to know if I would be travelling with them to Albany to minister with them next weekend!!! I just met these people and they are including me in all aspects of their lives. Prudence was excited that now that his family is moving to Greece that we will be neighbors! I think I am going to like getting to know these people. What a display of putting others first....remember, the dozen Africans are the ones reaching out to us, the Americans(or Canadians!), not the other way around...we should be the ones helping them, encouraging them. They left everything behind them when they left Africa...some of them even left their family there. Now, here they are in America, the land of opportunity, and they are encouraging us to love more, pray more, listen to God's voice more.

By the way, Heritage wants to be a missionary to Africa! I think that is so neat since I would consider him a missionary from Africa to America. But, his heart is for Africa...he is a great missionary already, so I am sure that once he returns to Africa he will do amazing work in God's name.