single= out-of-luck

Well another week has come and gone. I feel as if every moment has been packed with one thing or another. Today was a particularly busy end-cap to the week. This afternoon after church Kyle, Josiah, and I had lunch with a couple from the church and their daughter and her friend. It's fun to be around other people in their twenties. It seems that there is a real generation gap here of young adult Christians. The girls said that they see the same thing at the churches in Liverpool.

After that Kyle and I went out to a church in Southport called "The Kew Fellowship" (Kew is a Welsh word and it happens to be the name of the roundabout that the church is off of). Kyle preached there on the story of Joseph and suffering. It seems like some members of the church were really encouraged by Kyle's message. Afterwards we went to our church service and then an engagement party for a couple who were from our church. It's been a long day :)

It's on days like today that I actually feel discouraged. I talked a long while with a woman from church who is part of our outreach to young moms. We have a play group where mom's can bring their babies (0-2) every Thursday. I don't do much in this group except hang out with the moms. I'm just starting to feel comfortable to make more connections with these women, and conversations from my women's ministry classes are screaming out in my mind with new ideas for how to bless these women through the church and show them love. I see so many needs for outreach to women here. Most of the women at our morning Bible study are elderly. Where are the middle-aged women? Where are the young moms? Young women? This seems to be an issue in the three churches I've been to thus far. I see the needs for vision and development and yet I know that I am powerless to help fill them at this time. And even more discouraging is the fact that I feel like there is no place for a single woman my age to be involved in ministry unless it's to children...which is not my best suit. As of right now I don't see the possibility of me being able to do ministry anywhere here for more than a couple of months. I have to trust that God would make a way for me to do so if that's His will.

It's days like these that make me feel so inadequate for ministry. If only I had more this...or I wish I could be more like this...it's hard to be ok with being yourself, and trusting God.

Holiday Club (VBS) is just around the corner- Tuesday to be exact. That leaves us one whole day to panic...I mean rest before it begins. Then Wednesday morning I'm off to North Carolina to spend some quality time with my favorite two girls and watch one of them get hitched.

Pray for the needs here. Pray for godly leaders to rise up in this country- men and women. Pray that God would give us more emotional and relational energy than the average human.

"All flesh is like the grass. And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and it's flower falls away, But the Word of the Lord endures forever." - 1 Peter 1:24-25