Lesotho

Hi all, I am finally in Lesotho! After so much planning and praying. It is so good to finally be here. The country and the people are so beautiful - though there are many challenges here. I have posted several posts on my church site with photos. Rather than rehash that let me give you the link. It is www.connect2riverside.com. If you go there go under the who we are tab and to the blog tab and then to the missions blog tab. My blog is interspersed with the blogs from a mission trip to Haiti also from our church. There is a correction - a typo-that I did on one of the blogs. I taught a woman's group last week on discipleship and talked about what it means to be a talmid - in the post it came out talmud. Sorry! This Sunday we will continue the study. I taught about the schooling that Jewish children around the time of Jesus would have had - esp in the Galilean area.  How those who had a passion and were acknowledged scholars would have then gone out in search of a rabbi to study under, and how they wanted to not only know what the rabbi knew, but to watch how he applied that to his life, and then to become like him. And how our following Jesus relates to all of this. Much of what I taught came from teachings by Ray Vanderlaan, David Biven, and Lois Tverberg. This week we will look at the passion required to be a true talmid. Please pray for me that I will listen well to the Holy Spirit as I teach. Got to run get ready to join Jo Fernandez, the AIM missionary I am visiting with and that I hope to join in ministry as she prepares for a one on one meeting. God be with you all.