Handfuls of Blessings

One of the things I have learned in being a missionary is to delight in seemingly small things.  Having electricity on a day when we were told it would be off.  Finding peanut butter marked half-price.  Internet, water and electricity being on all at the same time.  In the last two weeks, the Lord sent two extra, non-essential blessings my way. Something my husband often comments on in disbelief is how I can make a bag of candy last so long - a trait, I believe, I inherited from my mom.  She would keep a bag of peanut M&Ms in her top drawer and make them last for a month.  As long as we took just one or two, she didn't mind us getting into them.  Thus, my love for peanut M&Ms began. My in-laws sent a bag of peanut M&Ms as part of a Christmas package in January.  As of the first of this month, there were about 15 left in the bag with no replacement bag stashed away.  I casually mentioned my depleting supply to the Lord and left...

One of the privileges my husband has is that of overseeing 9 churches.  Some of these we have started, others we have inherited, and still others have sought us out asking for Bible teaching and help in leading their churches the Bible way. Today Keith visited Katovu Independent Baptist Church, which is being led by one of the men in that church and helped by Pastor Henry Ssebanja.  This church has been through much refining fire, yet the core of believers has withstood the fiery darts of the devil and is more on fire for Christ than ever before.  The last time Keith visited this church, he baptized, I believe, 42 people.  Not having a pastor or a baptistry, they just wait until there are several and then let Keith know they are ready for a special Saturday baptismal meeting. During the meeting this morning, one man trusted Christ as his Savior.  Hallelujah!  Then a bus arrived to start transporting the people to the baptismal sight.  They aren't...