You know that phrase, 'you passed the point of no return'. Well I just can't seem to get it out of my head lately. I've been doing lots of stuff relating to member care for missionary families. Long term planning is alway an issue when you've got kids in school in a foreign country. But mix up the issues involved in pioneering a new team and ministry with the complications of having 4 kids in a complicated school system, add in local church ministry and long term planning becomes quite a challenge--did I mention aging parents?
In a couple of months our church will have to choose elders and Wayne will probably be one of them. We were discussing the future of our church with a couple this week whose comments were something like this, 'you're missionaries here, you could leave anytime, do you really want to commit to eldership?' Oh LOL, jep, just leave anytime! Just pull those 4 kids out of their british education and transplant them to America! The programs that the girls are in leaves no room for a change of school, let alone town or country in the next 4 years!
Shouldn't ministry, calling, the thread of how the Lord has lead us the last 20 years have more bearing than an educational system? Yes, and it does, it's just that some days it feels like we are now here for the schools.
It's these kind of random thoughts that I'd imagined having time to put on a blog page. I hope it is more than just blah, blah, blah for those of you reading!
So 'the point of no return' it's that sense that you already passed it and there's no going back. I don't want to go back, I love what we are doing but maybe I've kept too much security in knowing there was a back door somewhere. There aren't any escape routes right now. We're here, right where God wants us--and these 4 kids, that God gave us.
The girls are at youth group, while Wayne and the boys watch the quarter final of the Rugby world cup. Life is full, God is good.
1 comment:
Kim,
I guess I'm a little late reading your blog, but I understand some of where you are coming from. I've been away from Pastoral ministry for a little over a year, and I feel the Lord saying it's time to start heading back. I don't know what he has in mind, but one of my biggest hesitations is that all the churches of our denomination are in other cities an most in the states, but we have four children in school here in Edmonton Canada. I feel a strong sense of home is important for children growing up. I wonder if we would be ready to leave if God called us to. I'm trying to remind myself that God knows the needs of my children and cares about them even more than we do. Also theres the notion that them being so rooted here is part of how God is speaking to us about where he wants us to be and minister.
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