Craigs in Cauayan

When the children of Israel journeyed in the desert, they had no food, and wondered what they would eat.  They cried unto Moses.  The Lord rained down bread from heaven for them.  For 40 years, the children of Israel ate manna, the bread which the Lord gave them to eat.  It saved them from starvation, and they knew that it came from the Lord. (Exodus 16) For months we have watched the mission shrink a bit more each cycle, as more missionaries completed their missions and returned home, and we had none to replace them.  This week we received 16 new missionaries, whose homes are in the Cauayan Mission boundaries.  As we began our orientation on Wednesday, our hearts were full.  President Craig told them they we had prayed them here.  As I pondered what I would say to them, I thought of Moses and the children of Israel.  These fine young missionaries were our "Manna".  They are a gift to us from the Lord.  They will save us from starva...

I remember a Bright Music song we used to listen to when our children were little: "An attitude of gratitude will see the good before the bad;  An attitude of gratitude is finding reasons to be glad." I have been wanting to post this for awhile, a post of the good things to remember.   The last week of August, we were becoming more concerned about the number of missionaries that are approaching their release dates, and not getting any new ones.  I did some figuring and discovered that if we didn't receive any new missionaries by the end of January, we would only have 56 left!  Having gone from over 200, the reality of what was happening was a little frightening.  We joked that the last one out would need to turn out the lights.  But yet again, we have been reminded that the Lord knows our needs and is very aware of us. (This situation is also the same for all of the missions in the Philippines.  We are all functioning on a skeleton crew).  La...