See how easy that was?

Jeremiah 32:27 "I am the LORD, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?"

God's been dealing with me lately about my struggles with fear and anxiety. Today He did it in such a sweet way. For several days I've been trying to find the power cord for my netbook, the battery of which was completely dead. I was getting so frustrated with the time that I was wasting looking for it when I kept coming up empty. Today I just said, "Lord, I'm just going to stop looking for it. There are so many other things that I need to do. Please just show me where it is." Seriously, it could not have been more than an hour later that I just came across it in a place that I definitely did not expect it to be. I was grateful to God for His answer to prayer, but even more for His tender encouragement that followed. I laughed at His sense of humor immediately after I found it and then I felt as if He were saying to me, "See how easy that was for Me? Everything else that concerns you is just as easy for Me." Wow! Yes, I definitely need to hang onto that!!

New prayer card

Cambodia

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November 2010 WorldVenture Appointees & Paraclete Staff

Great News!!

I have some really exciting news to share! Just last month I was appointed by WorldVenture to serve as a missionary to Cambodia! WorldVenture will be partnering with my church family at New Braunfels Bible Church in New Braunfels, Texas to equip, guide, and spur me on as I prepare to launch into long term mission ministry in Cambodia. I had the privilege of joining 14 other missionary appointees (five couples and four other singles) and the WorldVenture Paraclete Center staff for two weeks of candidate orientation in Littleton, Colorado. Each appointee has a mentor, a member of their church who has agreed to fill a special role in teaming up with the missionary to aid in the process of preparing to get to the field. I am delighted and honored to have my dear friend, Renee Garner serving me in that role.

Our mentors joined us for several days of our orientation, so it was really nice to be reunited with her during that time. It was a busy time, with a lot of information coming at us, but it was also exciting to be entering into a new and even more intentional stage of preparation for long term missions ministry, and getting to do it alongside some other really wonderful people.

Chanty, Srey Ma, & Srey Mao

These are the sweet Khmer young ladies who live in the Cox family home, where I am currently staying. They have been my voluntary Khmer language coaches as mentioned in my update.