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So the blog has been quiet this spring and early summer… but that is about to change as I start travelin again the end of the week!

As some of you may know, I like to ask this question: What are you thankful for today? Well, this morning, I am thankful for the scores of people who joined our cause and helped us reach our year end financial goal at CEO.

Thanks be to God, this is going to allow me to head to the Heartland (July 13) with the organization on a firmer financial footing. That will allow me to focus on ministry and not wonder about finances. But, with a new fiscal year (July 1), we restart our fund raising. If you would like to learn more about our mission and how you can be a part, please learn more HERE.

A clean up is almost finished over at www.ceokids.org … please go take a look… if its not up yet, you can sign up to receive notification that its back online.

THIS IS JUST IN TIME!!!!!! The END of the Spring Fund Drive to raise $24,000 for our ministry is in 24 days. Our fiscal year ends on June 30. BUT, we are so happy to tell people that MANY folks have helped out already and the need (was $24K) is now UNDER $8,000!!!!

YOU can help out. PLEASE DO!!!!! We need your help at CEO. Please go the the GIVE page and learn the different ways you can join our team of financial supporters.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/05/27/pentecost-prayer-for-the-week/

I read a post this morning titled “What Happens When You Live Abroad”

I was fascinated by it for several reasons. Here is a quote:

“But one thing that undoubtedly exists between all of us, something that lingers unspoken at all of our gatherings, is fear. There is a palpable fear to living in a new country, and though it is more acute in the first months, even year, of your stay, it never completely evaporates as time goes on. It simply changes.”

The first thing about the post that jumps out at me is the theme of “fear.”

The second thing that jumps out at me is that fear is just seen as a condition that everyone has and ‘that is that.’

The third thing that jumps out at me (in my own head) is this thought I stole from an unknown someone long ago and it applies specifically to followers of Jesus: “We are to be thermostats not just thermometers.”

I would be curious if any of the 5 of you who will read this post, will read the mentioned post and then agree or disagree with my assessment: While fear is normal, we are not called to normality, normal is natural, we have the supernatural in us. Thus, shouldn’t we be thermostats not just thermometers? Isn’t this what we are called to do as followers of Jesus, empowered with the Holy Spirit? So, when we fear (we all do) shouldn’t we meet it with faith? or at least exercise to build our faith? No matter if we are abroad or not?

I need your support! My organization’s Spring Fund Drive begins today.

Our goal is $23,000 in the next six weeks! Would you please help us reach our goal???

You can learn more and donate here: www.ceokids.org

EVERY donation matters!!!!