In Texas

It's Nate...
I'm here in Texas.  Everything's bigger in Texas, so they say.  I've found that all is just about normal.  The oversized people, bugs, and animals must be in a different part of the state, because here the biggest creature I've found was an orange cat that came out to cheer for us when we were playing frisbee in a field.  We fittingly named it Garfield. He was huge.

We came to check out an organization called Mercy Ships. It's home base is here in Garden Valley in the tall trees and near the deep lakes of this Eastern part of the lone star state.  We're here to pray and seek God. We're here to find our specific calling, and we're here to find out if this organization has a place for us.  If you are a praying person, please join us.  It turns out we found many answers to our questions, and other questions still remain.  All I know is that we have taken the next step of faith to seek our life in ministry.  What I know now is that we are not alone.  So many people have taken the week out of their schedule to come and find out about this ministry too.  There's about 40 of us. I'm in the presence of many who are in the same boat, paddling through an ocean, riding the waves, and wondering if the little leaks that appear are anything to worry about, or all part of the fun.  Faith has a scary way of making a reasonable man do unreasonable things in obedience to a wonderful Lord.