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

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Bethany to Ethiopia!


We have been dealing with the sadness of saying goodbye to the dream of adopting the 5 month old baby we fell in love with and God has led us to a new adventure.




Our daughter, Bethany, is twelve. She is a great girl and just entering the difficult years of adolescence. We were praying about her the other day and God prompted our hearts to take her to Ethiopia with us. We talked with her and asked her to make it a part of her prayer time. She was fearful at first, but with time and prayer, she has heard from God herself and is very excited about this plan. Bethany will be raising her own money for her ticket and we will now rush to get her passport and shots so she can join us.


This will absolutely be life changing for all of us, but will alter the young life of Bethany in a profound way. She is intensely spiritual and we know God will speak to her as she observes with her own eyes the affects of the horrible famine and drought and need of the beautiful Ethiopian people. She wants to pursue the Miss Kansas pageant, starting in Miss Teen next year and wants her platform to be Africa/AIDS/orphans...something in that area. This will deepen that passion and cause her to truly become an advocate for her brother's homeland.


Thank you for praying for Bethany. Pray for protection, health, favor, and provision on her life. Pray for revelation and life change as she goes with us. She will be a great help to us too.





Blessings,

Pastor Kurt and JoLynn
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