Reentry

Finally, I can say we are all stateside and accounted for.  Carl Bosteels made it home shortly after the rest of the team Wednesday, and Matt Mitchell arrived Sunday night after a grueling trek around the planet. 

Adjusting to life at home is to be expected, but is always more difficult than we plan.  In addition to jet-lag, residual illness and fatigue, there is the metamorphosis of spirit that has occurred. 

If you've been reading this blog (I encourage you to read through it again), you may find it incredulous that so much could have happened in so short a time.  We're right there with you.   This trip was of biblical proportions.   How often do you run away from home, introduce 8,000 people to the Lord Jesus, speak to more than twice that number, encounter the depths of poverty and the height of joy several times over in a two-week period, only to be sent back home empty-handed and full-hearted?   I don't know how the apostles did it. 

As overwhelming of an experience it may have been for you, 23 people are carrying a flood of facts and emotions that are quite out of place in the U.S. 

Be patient with us when we can't give you an answer to:  "So, how was your trip?"  Give us a little time to collect ourselves if we begin to weep mid-sentence. 

Above all, give glory to God for using the likes of us to do His work, reflect His majesty, and bring freedom to His people. 

Right now, God gives us rest.  But something tells me, like a child playing hard with a parent, we will soon hear "Let's do it again!" 

When you hear that call, go.