India - Sunita

So I have arrived in Dubai and waiting for my connection to Hyderabad and after another flight meeting up with Victor Palla and of course George Ridley. (He has been visiting another LightForce International partner in Chennai - The Williams Family)

After a few days with Victor we move on to visit the Home of Faith and Sunita Johnson. She is caring for around 100 orphans and ladies rescued off the street.

It will be fantastic to meet her and see how MKCC and LightForce has assisted her work.

India - Victor Palla

On Monday Morning I board an emirates flight to Hyderabad which will start me on a new venture on mission with LightForce International (the Mission's arm of MKCC) to a continent that I have not yet visited. I will have the opportunity to visit two people doing some incredible work. The first being Victor Palla. I first met Victor when I attended Mattersey Hall Bible College back in 1982.

Afterwards Victor moved to Palakonda to start a brand new Church from scratch. Over the last 20+ years, and several hundred conversions later, Victor runs a thriving church with over 30 congregations in the surrounding hills and villages. It is this Church that provides the basis for supporting a number of aid projects.

Jehovah Jireh Ministries based in Palakonda, Andhra Pradesh, activities  include:

• Support through sponsorship of widows, providing for their food and medical care.
• Support through sponsorship of children, providing for their food, school fees and uniform 
• Digging and maintenance of deep bore wells in villages where availability of water is limited 
• Annual provision of new saris and a Christmas meal for over 500 poor widows

I am honoured and excited to hooking up with Victor his wife and family.

Enduring the Unendurable

We pray that you'll have the strength to stick it out over the long haul—not the grim strength of gritting your teeth but the glory-strength God gives. It is strength that endures the unendurable and spills over into joy - Col 1:11-12 (Mess)

Although I've had tough times I'm not sure I have faced the UNENDURABLE.
Sometimes it felt like it!
Yet another day of bullying at school.
The loss of my hero Grandad when only 13.
Spending long nights watching cancer take my mother.

Compared to so many small trials but still acutely painful with a strength needed to endure and emerge on the other side.

But it would seem that God wants us not only wants us to reach the other side by the skin of our teeth. But he wants to implant in us a strength that far out weighs our own natural strength. But we can discover "God's GLORY Strength" not as some nice spiritual poster or bumper sticker but as a supernatural reality in our lives.

A strength that takes over when our own strength is exhausted. That kicks in when we are just about to give up. That grabs hold when we are about to let go. A strength that is absent within but comes from the above. Is foreign to the human but friends with the divine.

It not only lets us endure but plants joy in our heart.

Paul prayed that for his fellow believers in Colossae and I still believe it can be found in prayer before our God today.

The Table - A Place of Discipleship

From the MKCC teaching series "The Table" on the subject of Discipleship.

Christian discipleship is a process of paying more and more attention to God’s righteousness and less and less attention to our own; finding the meaning of our lives not by probing our moods and motives and morals but by believing in God’s will and purposes; making a map of the faithfulness of God, not charting the rise and fall of our enthusiasm. – Eugene Peterson

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