The Journey of a Family Striving to Live Dangerously Surrendered!


"Surrendering means that we have come to the end of our independence from him, our reliance on self-sufficiency, and our insistence that we don’t need him. Surrender to God changes everything! Why add the word dangerous to surrender? Because we don’t surrender to a benevolent but impotent grandfatherly figure; we surrender to Almighty God —the Creator and Sustainer of the universe. C. S. Lewis’s character Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia depicts God as a magnificent lion —good, but certainly not safe. Surrendering your life to God is the boldest and riskiest step you can take. Being dangerously surrendered to God allows you to know him in increasingly deeper ways and to participate fully in his will. " ~Kay Warren

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Garage Sale Success!

We have been so busy, I haven't had time to tell you about our amazing garage sale fund raiser! The fair grounds gave us the large commercial building for free and it was a true blessing. We were amazed at how many people came and donated items to sell and stayed to help. My sister, Amy, made a wonderful tri-fold poster about adoption and Ethiopia. I will stick a picture in this post later of that poster. People in the community were genuinely interested.

Drum roll, please!!!

Our total raised from this sale:

$1802.56

Praise God!

With the lovely extra tax refund we should be getting from our wonderful President, that brings us to about $6000 raised for travel. We need another $4000. We are still waiting on some grants and haven't heard from them, so thank you for praying!! We are getting closer!

We love you all!

Pastor Kurt and JoLynn
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