Herman's Mustard Seed

Check out this experiment: What can one dollar really do?

This is the way we must begin to think - creatively finding ways to voluntarily redistribute to "the least of these." Spreading the love, spreading the mustard seeds.

Update on Prayer Request

So we came home yesterday after our "realtor open house" to find a note that said nobody showed. Somewhat discouraging. The Lord had been pouring into me the entire day. I had been dwelling on thoughts about His power, His love, and His ultimate sovereignty. I was in a pretty good place, but the note still shook me a little. I began to ponder: “maybe He doesn’t want us to go?”

Then I read some Oswald Chambers, the devotional for yesterday, April 29th, and the Lord poured in again.

“Our natural inclination is to be so precise— trying always to forecast accurately what will happen next— that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing. . . . . . The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty. . . . . . We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. . . . . . Leave everything to Him and it will be gloriously and graciously uncertain how He will come in— but you can be certain that He will come. Remain faithful to Him.” (Click here to read more)

We need to live in “gracious uncertainty,” and believe me, that is what it feels like. We covet your prayers, please keep petitioning on our behalf.

Rebelution

For all the teens, tweens and young folk out there (or more importantly the parents) I'm not usually too excited about big fancy conferences but this one sounds a little more challenging and real. The conference is being held here in Portland on May 3 @ Rolling Hills. You can check out the Rebelution website here.
It was started by 2 Oregon kids and has grown- they are finding that kids CAN be challenged and CAN have incredible relationships with the Lord. I was excited to see this as I have seen this in many high school students.

Mustard Seed Ministries Video

Here is our ministry video that my Dad put together Saturday night. He owns and operates a video editing business called Creative Video Designs. It turned out pretty good (thanks Dad!), I think it captures our heart.

A Call To Prayer

As many of you know, we still need to sell our home in order to begin on this journey. We are faithfully waiting on the Lord and believe that God will fulfill his promises. He is for us and not against us and if we are stepping out to do His Kingdom work, He will show us the way.

The morning after I mentioned to Serenity last April that we should sell our home, our possessions and travel the country intersecting the lives of the poor (and she said in agreement "YES!"), I woke up and tuned on the news (which I rarely do). The first piece I heard was about how the housing market took a nosedive and new laws were being passed to limit lenders, and how ultimately the end to this downturn was nowhere in sight. At that point I knew this was one issue the Lord was going to use to sharpen our faith.

Really it is quite funny to think about this earth, all of the creatures in it, the beautiful mountains, rivers and deserts, the intricacies of nature, of the human body, of the mind, all pointing to the glory and power of God – and then think that he cannot overcome a slumping housing market. Not belly laugh funny, but funny. Our house appraised at $265,000 – we have it up right now for $244,900.

So, our first showing is going on today. Realtors will be going through our house looking it over and then possibly bringing clients back. Pray that this will be the perfect house for one of them. Pray that the right realtors show up, and that in God’s perfect timing our house sells.