Usually, once a year our cluster gets together for a meeting. A short-term mission team from a church in the states comes to help us out. They bring enough workers to take care of our children and do VBS with them.
We start each day out worship God in song in English. This is a wonderful blessing to us missionaries. Our Sunday services are in another language. As missionaries we know and expect the Sunday service to be in another language, but after a while this gets tiring. You just want to worship God in English if that is your mother tongue! In the three meetings we have been at the pastor has picked one of the short books in the New Testament and preached through it.
After an hour church service we launch into the meeting agenda. The cluster leader speaks to us as well as sub-cluster leaders. The teams each give a report about what they are doing and what is happening in their area. This is wonderful to see what other missionaries are doing.
We also have a late afternoon worship service before supper. This time our country leaders preached instead of the pastor on the team. This was wonderful!
We are very thankful for the Lottie Moon Offering that makes these meetings possible. It gives us, the missionaries a time of renewal. We then head back to our posts, spiritually fed, more on-fire for God, with new ideas as how maybe we can do things better.
Tobias and Lane hanging out with other MK’s at meal time.
Seth relaxing and visiting at meal time with MK’s.
Heather on the boat. We went on a sunset cruise one evening on the Lake!
Seth pestered the Captain until he got to pilot the boat! He decided it wasn’t that much fun. When you turn the wheel the boat didn’t turn very fast. But the boat was a two story boat with roof, it wasn’t made to turn on a dime.
God bless, Rita
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