Our Sovereign God

Details on Friday's madness

Future roomie, BenB, went over the furniture and kitchen supplies he has so that I could give direction on what we need and already have.

The fish will not be joining us.



The Dryers invited me to dinner and a meeting with their Ecuador trip team. Cheryl decked out the kitchen with her sweet no-cook cooking skills. This was also an opportunity to go over any last minute instructions for watching their place while they're gone, and getting to know their good friend David.





Meet David
I was also invited in order to meet David. David is a doctor who was recently diagnosed with cancer and three months to live. He cannot practice medicine in his current condition. The Dryers have poured a ton of love on David and invited him to join us for dinner and the Ecuador team's first devotional time. David loves animals and traveling...good man! You know you're in good hands when Chery's thrown the fluffy white blanket on you.

Devotions
Paul lead the team's first group devotional after dinner. Every trip that Bethany sends out has a devotional planed each day. In the business, and sometimes stress, of the team schedule, it would be easy to forget why you are there, and to lose focus of who you are serving and glorying in. After team devotions, the team spent some time praying over David and his Cancer, knowing confidently that God is sovereign over all things here on earth and above, and can work mightily in David's life.

Since the team has left, we've gotten word back that Cheryl's carry-on luggage was mixed up (with the pilot's I think) and that they arrived in Quito Ecuador without her clothes or computer. For someone like me, not having a computer to gather and convert pictures, and to pre-blog on would be very frustrating. Which means if it were to happen, it's because I'm supposed to focus on something else. Praise the Lord for his sovereignty.

We scrambled to get some team pics before I left. Since I left while they were sorting trip money...eh, you can see what happened.


(left-right, Paul, Kristin, Cheryl, Bill, Toni)

House sitting updates:



Cheryl put a teddy bear on my bead to keep me company.







After a long day, Spence and I unwind with some xboxing on this swanky sweet 70inch mad tv.





Later that night, I spent a little time hangin' with Pete Rumfun and then went to bed.