Quench My Thirst

STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO: Picture Praise, 02/25/13

There are essentially two seasons in Nicaragua (Central America) -- Dry Season and Rainy Season.  The rain comes almost as if on cue during the month of May.  The last month before the rains come is the hottest month out of the entire year.  Everything is begging from within its core for rain.  Once the rain starts, it almost seems that overnight the landscape is transformed from dry, dusty and brown to glistening, green and lush!   

I believe that there are times when we feel dry, dusty and thirsting for nourishment.  Like the rain that comes to quench the dry earth, God provides thirst quenching nourishment through His Word.   Thankfully, no matter what day, month or season it is...God's Word is always available to be poured into our thirsty souls.

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photographer: Bethany Bracht, Nicaragua.  Bethany is a wife, mother and friend living as disciple of Christ in Managua, Nicaragua where she and her family seek to serve and obey God in whatever ways He asks.

Pray in Faith

STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO: Picture Praise, 02/18/13

This photo was taken as we were leaving one of the Sundarban Islands off the Ganges River in India after a short term medical, evangelism, and children's mission trip. We were on motorized carts to get us back to our boat and the kids were running barefooted behind us on the rocky road yelling "Halleluiah."  Halleluiah, indeed!

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photographer: Marsha Kemp, USA.  “As a retired teacher, I never dreamed God would call me to work for Him in India and fall in love with His kids there!”

In Its Time

STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO: Picture Praise, 02/11/13

The life of a Hmong woman is full of toil and hardship, but in the midst, there is creativity and beauty. This is mostly shown in their brightly embroidered clothing. A person has to have new clothing for New Years and other special occasions, the mother has to embroider and sew two outfits for each family member each year. This lady was behind on her sewing, so she brought her embroidery project to church with her and worked on it through three hours of Sunday school and church. 

I watched in fascination as she deftly plied her needle, but when I took a closer look I was amazed to realize that she was working from the back side of the piece. She was so skilled and confident in her plan and her sewing ability that she didn’t need to see the front of the work. She just kept working from the back. 

It occurred to me that this parallels our lives. We are a work in progress and at times when our life doesn’t make sense, we want to see the big picture of what God is doing in and through us. But God is the master craftsman, working out his plans and purposes for us. From our perspective we only see the tangled threads of the backside, and it isn’t particularly pretty, but God sees things from an entirely different perspective. What may now seem an unattractive confusing mess, will be a work of beauty when I finally get to see the finished work from the other side. So I rest in the hands of God, the skilled, wise, all-knowing master craftsman who ‘makes all things beautiful in his time’.

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photographer: Grace, creative access country.  “Called to be a missionary, released to marry, a trailing spouse who’s lived in 4 Asian countries, now retired in Asia and serving in member care.  Who would have thought it!  God’s ways are amazing. “

Generations

STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO: Picture Praise, 02/04/13

We have had ministry in Peru's Amazon for over 40 years.  Passing on values takes time, and is the process of spending time and speaking of God intentionally, sharing His Love and His Grace each day.  We love taking the grandchildren out to this lake, which was built by my husband with an earth dam, and stocked with fish.  It is one of many projects for the community in this area.

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photographer: Janette Hocking, Pucallpa, Peru.  “We are Janette and John Hocking, missionaries with CMML (Christian Missions in Many Lands), Pucallpa, Peru.  We came as a couple in 1971, but my in laws were also missionaries in Pucallpa and my husband was born here.  Our daughter and her husband live here also, serving with Kids Alive International, since 2005.