Our Commissioning

Before church this morning many on our team commented that they can't believe the time is actually here and we are getting on a plane tomorrow to head to Africa!  After today's amazing send off  at Grace Fellowship we believe it and we feel so ready!

We were honored to be commissioned and prayed over in front of the whole church by our senior pastor, Jim Leggett in the first service and by Morgan Pylant, the Connections Pastor in the second service.  We are grateful for the prayers of our church body and of all of you who are following this blog.  We go out thankful and confident that we serve a God who hears the prayers of His people. 

In between services, we were invited to the Next Generation in our Kids Place at Grace. These kids are the children of parents who are serving in one of our services and attending the other. Next Generation  is a special program for them and we can attest it is powerful in equipping these children to be godly leaders. After sharing a little of what we would be doing in Africa, the kids, whose average age was about 8 years old, got up off the floor and split up coming to each of us to lay hands on us and pray for us. They asked us our names and how they could pray specifically and then they prayed the sweetest prayers you could imagine for each of us by name. They prayed for our health, our safety, that God would use us, for our comfort and so much more. It was awesome!

Thank you Kelly Brotherton, Kristen Kershner and the other leaders of this ministry. You are doing a terrific job and we are so blessed to have witnessed what God is doing in and through these precious  kids.  May the Lord bless them and continue growing them up serving Him so powerfully like they did today. 

We will likely not get a chance to post again until Wednesday night when we arrive at our final destination in Mbale. Thank you for your prayers!