Our God provides for all our needs according to his riches in glory!
On Sun. Sept. 23, as we drove from VA to EQUIP international in NC, I had great hope & joy-filled expectation rise up in my heart as I thought of WHO GOD IS!!! We are crying out to Him & seeking to walk in HIS PLAN & to be WHERE HE WANTS US TO BE and DOING WHAT HE WANTS US TO DO, so we can be confident in His faithful provisions, guidance, & direction for the future. Not only that, but also very excited for all that God has ahead for Jon & Joyce as they cry out to him in this difficult season!
| Students begin to gather at EQUIP International |
We had set out on our trip on Sat. 9/15 with enough funds to make it to our first stop & a week later, having stayed with dear praying friends along the way, by God's faithful hand we arrived Sun. evening 9/23 at EQUIP International in Marion, NC, just in time for orientation.
| Joyce getting her picture taken |
We are overwhelmed by the beautiful accommodations they are allowing us to stay in... a little 4 room dorm/house (right next to the chapel, student lounge and dining hall) with a small kitchen that has a refrigerator, microwave, coffee maker, toaster & dishes so Roger & I can have food for us & Patience while Jon & Joyce's tuition covers all their meals! (We figured we would have to get a hotel miles away)
| Abi (Grandpa) & Patience hanging out in our rooms |
Also they offered Jon and Joyce a scholarship discount off their tuition, which God has faithfully provided the balance due as well as the minimal charge for us staying on campus.
I got to sit in on the morning devotions and filled up with tears 3 times, first, when they opened in prayer, second, when we sang these words to the first song we sang...
What love could remember, no wrongs we have done
Omniscient all-knowing, He counts not their sum
Thrown into a sea, without bottom or shore
Our sins they are many, His mercy is more
What patience would wait, as we constantly roam
What Father so tender, is calling us home
He welcomes the weakest, the vilest, the poor
Our sins they are many, His mercy is more
What riches of kindness, He lavished on us
His blood was the payment, His life was the cost
We stood 'neath a debt, we could never afford
Our sins they are many, His mercy is more
Praise the Lorr-ord, His mercy is mor'-or'-ore
Stronger than darkness, new every morn
Our sins they are many, His mercy is more
Praise the Lorr-ord, His mercy is mor'-or'-ore
Stronger than darkness, new every morn
Our sins they are many, His mercy is more
Our sins they are many, His mercy is more
Third, after a wonderful presentation about God's hand in cross cultural missions, when they asked those who spoken another language to come forward to sing "God is so good" in their own language as we all sang in English, my heart just burst..
| Singing in Russian, Spanish, Madi (Jon joined Joyce & I got a video but internet is slow so I can't even watch it) |
This is so vital for Jon and Joyce who've had no missionary training like this whatsoever. The hearts of these veteran missionaries from all over the world are offering to pour into these, who are new on the mission field, all the wisdom, lessons, counsel that they have gained as they have served the Lord.
Just a glimpse of much that God is doing that we can see & we rejoice in all He is doing that we cannot see... thus we are overwhelmed knowing just a fraction of His goodness, wisdom, power, grace, mercy & love!!!
"Needs are my best riches, for I have these supplied by Christ. I think the sense of our needs, when we have a restlessness & a sort of spiritual impatience under them, because we need Him whom our soul loves, is that which makes an open door for Christ; & when we think we are going backward, because we feel deadness, we are actually going forward; for the more sense of need we have, the more life there actually is, and when there is no sense of need, it argues that there is no life."
There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him."
- Samuel Rutherford
"Needs are my best riches, for I have these supplied by Christ. I think the sense of our needs, when we have a restlessness & a sort of spiritual impatience under them, because we need Him whom our soul loves, is that which makes an open door for Christ; & when we think we are going backward, because we feel deadness, we are actually going forward; for the more sense of need we have, the more life there actually is, and when there is no sense of need, it argues that there is no life."
There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him."
- Samuel Rutherford
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PRAYERS & SUPPORT!!!
Keep clinging, Roger & Patty Lueken, Jon & Joyce & Patience
Patty (774) 254-4336 Roger (774) 210-2800 Jon (774) 203-8308
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