January 2011

Well, the new year is here, whether we're ready or not. The team arrived on the 31st and have experienced the Brazilian rainy season, probably not the best welcome for them. However, today, the sky has cleared a little, enabling the first walk through the community. It's exciting for us to have a new group of people here working alongside us for 2 months, full of passion to evangelise and transform this community. Sometimes we get stuck in our ideas and traditions and although we really want to see God move and show his power we are a little scared of doing things differently.
A new year is a great opportunity to recommit and truly welcome Jesus back to the centre of it all, to recognise it's not through our abilities, talents or great ideas, but it all comes through Him. I'm looking forward to how the Lord is going to lead me, lead us. I'm looking forward to seeing what He wants to do, and yet a little scared of the challenges there will be along the way