Our God who is AWESOME has made our boys AMAZING!!

I love the song, "Your Great Name", after being in  Zambia for so long and not really learning any new worship music, this is one of the things we have most enjoyed.  I think I have a new favorite song every week.  The other day I told a friend that I had a "new" favorite song and she asked what it was.  After I told her the name, she said, "Ok, but that song is like two years old!".  So, excuse me if this is an old song to you, but to me it's new and I LOVE it.  Anyway, as I was singing at church today, God brought the faces of the boys into my mind and I had such a joy in my heart because of them.  One of the verses says:

The fatherless, they find their rest
At the sound, of your great name!
The sick are healed, the dead are raised,
At the sound of your great name!

Jesus, worthy is the Lamb that was slain for us
The Son of God and man
You are high and lifted up
And all the world will praise your great name!

God's great name has done excatly what this song says for our boys in Zambia.  The world said they were fatherless and had no life, but God has given them a home, food and school opportunity.  Their rest! They were sick with disease and pain and addiction.  They were dead to emotion and a future and hope, but God has raised them up.  Somebody shout with me and sing the chorus because Jesus is so worhty and has done such great things.  My soul magnifies the Lord!

In Zambia we have very important exams at the end of the 7th, 9th and 12th grades.  It's really like the SATs in that they determine if the student can move to the next grade and what type of school he can attend.  Well, thanks to His great name, ALL of our seventh graders passed this exam this year!  To GOD be the glory!

Thanks for reading and keep praying for the Kakabalika boys in Lusaka, Zambia!!

Orphans and Widows

"Father to the fatherless, defener of widows - this is God whose dwelling is holy." Psalms 68:5 NLT

It was a surreal experience introducing my own kid as chapel speaker today. This is the kid who 8 years ago got the scare of her life having to walk down an isle as a cute little flower girl. From that experience until today she did not want to be noticed, put on the spot, or asked to present anything. What the enemy means for evil in life, God always causes it to work for good to those that love Him. Psalm 68:5 was her text and in a simple yet childlike manner she shared in American Christian School's secondary and elementary chapel how this is the task God has allowed our family to be involved in. To put icing on the cake, she plaid and sang a song she called "Jesus Is Coming". It was one thing to play and hide behind the drum set, today you have faced your fear without looking back - God is so proud and we are so pleased GEM! Kudos!

Holidays

Happy New Year Everyone!!!

It was great to celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas in the States. The cold, crisp weather, the holiday decorations and fantastic food were a few things we enjoyed. Of course being with family did top the experience. We feel so blessed by God words cannot express our gratitude. Since being back in September, we've enjoyed sleeping in, dare I say till sometimes 10am!! We thought our bodies were no longer capable of the task, but with a little help they submitted. We have visited with some of you, and have also enjoyed going to the different churches many of you now attend.

We are so honored that God would call us to do His work in such a time as this. Times Square Church has grown so much and so many of you have also decided to allow your tent pegs to be pulled up and moved to a new place of ministry.  We see what God is doing now and can only remember the prayer Jabez prayed, "God that you would enlarge my territory". We encourage you all to go forward and follow God's leading in your lives and see Him raise you as a radical remnant in these last days.

The above picture was taken at Pike's Peak, one of the tallest mountains in the Colorado Springs area.  It was at this mountain that the famous phrase in the song "America the Beautiful" was written.  "Of purple mountain majesty, above the fruited plain..."  When looking at the Rockies from afar you can almost see a purple glow on them.  Our prayer for this year is that we experience a radical lifting of our spirit to meet Jesus like never before.  We pray that as we do this the people of the earth would see Jesus alone as a purple glow around us!!!