God Is Moving

Dacula, Georgia (ACN)

Tonight I went to Arbys for dinner with my lovely bride and as we began to order the young lady behind the counter said, "I really like your hat." I was wearing my Russian shopka, the rounded black fur hat you can see me wearing at the top of this blog page.

I said to the young lady whose names is Kat, "Would you like one. I will take you to the store where I bought mine and buy one for you." She said, "Where did you buy yours." I replied, "In Russia." I then explained about our mission trips and she was excited about the possibility of going to Russia on a mission trip. I gave her our web site address and she promised to go look at it.

Later as we were eating she was near our table and I asked her to come to the Russia interest meeting on Sunday. She said yes and left, then came back and said she couldn't that she had to work at Arbys during the meeting. So we arranged for she and Stephanie and I to meet for dinner on Monday evening where we will tell her all about what we do. She seemed genuinely interested to the point of me thinking that she will go. How cool is that?

To top the week off, I had already spoken to a group of 4-5 girls Wednesday at the church and they are all coming to the meeting on Sunday. I think out of that group 1 or 2 will go, but who knows, God may surprise me.

God has really been busy the last week motivating me to ask people to go and getting me focused on preparing to go. Yeah, I know the trip is not until December, but I have to make airline reservations in mid-February and we have to get busy raising money.

It seems that God has again awakened my heart to the possibility of again being in Russia doing the work that He wants us to do. I am so excited I am about to burst. All praise and glory goes to Jesus, my Lord and Savior. It was He who directed us at the last minute tonight to go to Arbys and I believe He inspired Kat to remark upon my hat and He gave me the idea to ask a perfect stranger to go with us. Hey that's no different than me asking people to go vis-a-vis this web site.

So Kat if you read this, don't freak out but God brought you and I and Stephanie together for a purpose. Ain't God cool!

Andy