Atlanta CPA Offers Real Christian Living: Making God Personal…Navajo Family Missions Series Postscript… Taking Christianity Into the World
Monday, November 23rd, 2009Atlanta CPA Offers Real Christian Living: Making God Personal…Navajo Family Missions Series Postscript… Taking Christianity Into the World
This is the Postscript of the Navajo Family Mission Series of our Weekly Family Trip To Serve the Navajo People of Pueblo Pintado. It is about sixty people who for an entire week lay down their jobs, vacations and responsibilities to be the very hands and feet of Christ. This is their story. Jesus often withdrew to the solitude of the desert to pray and be strengthened. Come along side us and see the changes of hearts, passions and lives as God joins us on our journey To catch a further look at our vision for our work there visit http://www.hiscpa.com/blog/2009/07/30/casting-a-vision-navajo-family-missions-taking-christianity-into-the-world/ If you and your church are encouraged by our journey, join us as we look to revival for the Navajo People, by taking Christianity Into the World.
Postscript:
It was very special to have Beth and Woody with us on this trip this year. They have planted many seeds in the lives of the Navajo people, and the love and the wonderful responses that we have received over the past two years have resulted from the diligent work and prayers poured from their hearts for the Navajo people ten years before we started coming.
It was also very special to have Tami M. and Kevin on the trip as part of the staff from the church. They made certain that everything went smoothly for us on our airplane trip to and from the reservation when we ran into situations that were unplanned like cancelled flights and delayed flights. As team members, we did not have to worry about making plans. They stepped in and took care of everything. They just knew what to do without anyone having to ask.
In addition, Tami and John D. are the most awesome leaders. Tami D. is blessed with administrative skills that allow her to be able to discern where each person will serve the best. She is very organized, and yet, she has the ability to know when there is a need to change plans on the spur of the moment. John D. was our spiritual leader on this trip, and his spiritual teaching was invaluable in showing us how to grow spiritually in our mission experience both on the trip as well and before and after the trip. He also has a special way of making a crisis like the situation with possibly not being able to have vans an open door to minister to others.
Finally, this trip was put together to bring glory to our God and our Savior Jesus Christ by using us as vessels to manifest His love to the Pueblo Pintado people. When writing this journal, Carol noticed that God was truly faithful to His Word. There are so many stories on this trip about how God’s Word became real in the lives of the team members. Carol’s prayer is that whenever you feel doubt in your heart, you will pull out this journal and read these experiences of people that you know and that they will encourage you to believe God that He will be faithful to stick by you during all the challenging circumstances of your life.
This mission trip has not ended here. It has become a part of the lives of the team members. As of the time of the trip, adults and kids have been writing and e-mailing to each other. Before Morgan’s surgery, members of the team gathered for a time of praise and worship. Morgan made a successful recovery from surgery and is back in church worshipping and helping her dad encourage people to get involved in his activities at the church. Also, members of the team have gone on a trip tubing down the river in Helen, Georgia. Three of the ladies in the Women’s Bible study have come and visited. Roughly forty members of the team and their families got together to spend time with these ladies at a get-together at Nathan and Dawn’s home. This team has become a family that shares a common passion to love the Navajo people and a desire to see them realize God’s perfect plans for their lives.
Prologue:
When Carol was preparing mentally for this mission trip to Pueblo Pint ado, Brandon Heath’s song Give Me Your Eyes was being played many times on the radio station that she was listening to. Her prayers for our mission trip to Pueblo Pintado were that we would see things from God’s perspective and that we would be totally yielded to the power of His Holy Spirit. She believes that God sometimes impresses the words of a song on her mind to keep her focused on what He wants to be accomplished through the people around her and that the timing of this song being played over and over when she was listening to the radio was no coincidence. God was telling her that if we would give Him our eyes, our love, our arms, and our hearts, He would reveal to us what we needed to see. May God bless you as you read these remembrances of the 2009 Pueblo Pintado Mission trip.
The Great Commission
Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matthew 28:16-20
Dare to Attempt Something so Great for the Kingdom of God that it is doomed to failure, lest Christ be in it!
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