Team Canada to Colombia

It is so amazing how our God works; no, HE is an amazing God!! After returning from Children's Vision International in Bogota, Colombia in August of this year, I was so blessed to share about my experience with many groups of people. God placed it on my heart to put a "Team Canada" together and head back to Colombia. Our home church, Ebenezer Baptist has teamed up with Circle Drive Alliance Church in Saskatoon and, behold - He's done it again!!!

We have a total of 15 people heading to Colombia with us for two weeks in February 2011! He has blessed us with a wonderful leadership team and members ranging in age from 15 to 43....teachers, nurse, youth pastor, electrician, welder, farmer, handymen, students and a few of us with administrative giftings. I am so excited to see how God is going to use us!

Our first of 11 pre-trip training sessions begin this Friday. Now that God has sent us a team, we ask for your prayers to help the team "gel" and to be united and that each individual is totally open to allowing God to work in them now and throughout the mission process.

"It's not about what WE do on this trip, it's about what GOD does through us!"

I have never led a missions team before and have gone through bouts of feeling unqualified. However, just now, I prayed and asked God to speak to me -- my Bible fell to Psalm 71:5 "For you have been my hope, O Sovereign Lord, my confidence since my youth."

It's funny how when we feel the least confident is when we tend to lean on God the most -- we can't do it all alone - but through Him all things are possible. - Carol

What a trip!

I stand in complete awe at how this journey has been planned. From my employer's support to my paperwork and flight bookings, to being teamed with a Baptist group from Northern Ireland -- wow God has been busy! Being in control is over rated; I am blessed to have the opportunity to sit back and let Him pave the way.

Sharing...

What an honor to share about my trip to Colombia and be prayed for at my home church - Ebenezer Baptist in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada - this morning!  It's a long weekend here in Canada and we were blessed with many out-of-town guests at both services.