THE RETURN OF THE BLOGGER

Well, friends, it’s good to be back on the blog. Life has been a little chaotic lately, especially since we returned from Uganda. The past few weeks we have been trying to catch up on ministry work and blogging and the like. Wednesday afternoon, we dropped Mom off at the Lansing airport to catch a flight to Missouri where she is visiting Caleb and his family and getting some dental work done. The rest of us are hanging out in Michigan awaiting her return on Saturday. We’ve just been catching up on life; you know, sleep, school, work, concerts, etc. After Michigan we will be heading to Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and beyond. I don’t have much to say in this post, I just wanted to give you a bit of an update on where we are and what we are doing. I also want to say thank you all so much for your prayers and support towards our 2014 Uganda mission trip. This year’s trip was the best one yet. It is just incredible to see the work God is doing in the country of Uganda, and even more amazing knowing He counts us worthy to be spokesmen for Him. When we go on mission trips, I am taken way out of my comfort zone, because we bring in these teams and I am forced to take the lead in some areas I am not used to leading in. But let me tell you all that it does not matter how unworthy or incapable you may feel, God can use you. No matter where you are at, He can and will use you to further His kingdom if you make yourself willing and available to answer His calling on your life. It’s funny, I could get up to speak in front of a group of people over there in Uganda, my knees shaking, so nervous I could hardly think straight. But as I began to speak to them about the love God has for them, I could feel the power of the Holy Spirit in such an awesome way. I found that He could work through my twisted, tongue-tied mess of words to speak to those people; to say the words that they needed to hear. I have no problem getting up in front of a large crowd of people and singing my heart out, but when it comes to speaking to a large crowd of people, I go into a state of semi-panic. I am always relieved when it’s over and I can breathe again. However, even when we got back from Uganda, at one of our first concerts back home, Mom asked if any of us would like to say a little about our trip on stage for the mission segment. I didn’t want to, but I volunteered myself for some reason. I got up on stage and I honestly could not tell you what I said, but when I finished and took a seat, I could see tears in the eyes of people in the audience mirroring my own and I knew that somehow, someway, God was able to use my nervous wreck of a speech to touch the hearts of those people. So no matter where you are at today, God wants to use you, and He will if you only surrender your will to His. It takes total sacrifice, but nothing could be more worth it. Keep serving The Lord. Thank you all once again and God bless!

-Abby

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