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I pray that you are well and want to thank you all for your prayers and thoughts for our Guatemala mission team, hard at work building homes and working with our partners in ministry in Guatemala. They’re getting along well and getting some good work done building three homes.

It’s amazing to be part of a community that is paying attention to the needs of the poor in Guatemala, in Uganda, and here, in the Delaware Valley. It’s a sign that even though our lives are not perfect at the moment (or any moment for that matter), we are open to God’s call. We are open to God’s call to pray for others, to care for others, to send members of St. David’s out into the world to make a difference so that others may know the presence and love of God in their lives, too.

Answering God’s call to go ahead of Him into the world is an important part of living the Christian life. Jesus sent His first followers ahead of Him to all the places He planned to go to prepare others for the presence of God in their lives. Some of them talked about Jesus and the coming kingdom of God. Some of them performed acts of power. Some of them worked to clothe and house and feed people as a way to begin to open the way for God to enter in. That’s what’s going on with our mission trip to Guatemala and that’s what’s going on in your life and my life today, whether we’re aware of it or not.

You see, Jesus has sent all of us ahead of Him to prepare the way for God to come into people’s lives. The way you and I are living our lives makes a difference in the lives of others and opens the way for God to enter in. It’s a partnership that builds relationships among people and a new relationship with God. So how we live each day is important for the people around us and for God’s purposes in drawing all people to God. 

Live today as though it matters to others and let your love and kindness and generosity open a way for God to enter in. He has sent you to do just that.

Grace and Peace.

WFA