While driving home tonight from the store, I was listening to the song, Two Weeks in Africa by Caedmon's Call and a thought came to me that I believe to have come from God. I would like to have the opportunity to take each of our children on a missions trip before they graduate from high school. I am going to put this into God's hands for each child as to what age would be best for each. It doesn't have to be Africa, but wherever God lays on each child's heart.
I pray we can start this with our oldest son...if we do, we don't have much time. There will be the summer between sophomore and junior year and spring breaks. He plans to enter the Army with delayed entry which means he would go to Basic Training the summer between junior and senior year. Wow...where has the time gone?!?
the plane had barely touched down
she was taking photos for the friends back home
this was always where she felt her heart belonged
and she was finally here
the sky was bright and clear two weeks....and we all can feel the calling
two weeks...to make the world a little smaller
and so a girl got on a plane
for two weeks in Africa
Johannesburg to Houston
she came home on a mountain
but school was starting, things kept moving on
before you knew it, seven years had gone
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she found a picture of her standing, smiling
arms around the starving kids
she swore to not forget...
she swore to not forget
and if we follow our dear sun
to where the stars are not familiar…faces turn to numbers
numbers fall like manna from the sky
why, oh why? oh Father, why?
one village in Malawi now has water running pure and clean
one church alive in Kenya’s full of truth and love and medicine
We put the walls up, but Jesus keeps them standing
He doesn’t need us, but He lets us put our hands in
so we can see His love is bigger than you and me
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