The Team Comes Home!

It is Thursday night, June 17th, and the rest of my team comes home from China in 4 days! I know they are certainly excited to come back to home sweet home. I plan to go down to Little Rock on Sunday night to welcome Drew home on Monday morning, bright and early! I am so proud of my team for the work they've done in Wuhan this past year. It was difficult to endure at times, but well worth the price of sowing the Father's seed.

As far as life in the career world, I have been working at the same job for 4 months now. My, how time flies! During that 4 month period, I have also taken the GRE and applied for graduate school. This week, the committee is reviewing my application. I am a little nervous, due to the grades on my transcripts, but I have been praying a lot and asking God to guide me. I feel God could use me in a pretty awesome way if I were accepted, though. If I were chosen for graduate school, I would most likely be rooming with a Chinese female (several of whom have already emailed and asked if I needed a roommate for the coming year). Imagine the possibilities! Besides that awesomeness, the professor who I would work under is a strong Christian and not afraid to talk about it! Not going in to much detail, I feel confident that this would be a most positive opportunity to take part in. However, if this is not God's plan for me, I pray that He gives me the grace to move on and conquer what He has in store for me!

In other news, I have occasionally received emails from some of my students. Rain has written about wanting to come to America some day, and longs for the beautiful scenery and fresh air. I definitely had to write her back and say that she certainly has a place to stay if she ever got the chance to come to America. Another student wrote me and asked if I would send some wedding photos (?). LOL. I must say, that might be a while before they receive such photos. It made me chuckle reading that.

Until later, I will leave you with a part of one of my favorite Chris Tomlin songs...

"Our God is greater, our God is stronger
God You are higher than any other
Our God is Healer, awesome and power...

And if Our God is for us, then who could ever stop us?
And if our God is with us, then what can stand against?"