The Blessing Box - Our Partners in Ministry

Philippians 4:19

 And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

As many of you know, we went to Kenya last year - 2018. On the trip home,  I felt ready to go back in a month!  I was just a little ahead of God's plan for Kenya. There is a scripture which is perfect for the situation Kent & I were in when we returned. In James 1:3-4 it says; "Knowing the testing of your faith produces patience.  But let patience have its perfect work, so you may be perfect and complete lacking nothing."

Kent pointing the way~

After about two months of being back from Kenya, I realized, patience is not a Christian swear word. Christians hate the word patience.  We think we can get it all done by ourselves, which is a total lie from the pit of hell. We need patience, to be complete entire and lacking nothing.

For the last nine months God has been working with me on this word, patience. There are three things that have happened in our ministry in those nine months.

#1 Preparation:  I have been working on a leadership manual. I'm old school and my manual isn't fancy, it is a yellow tablet written in pencil.  It's been used just about every day for the last nine months.  It is a leadership manual & will probably work into something fancy.  For right now it's more of a discussion book for leaders in Kenya.

#2 Relationships: I am finding out you can't do a project like Kenya by yourself. I have Kent for a traveling Companion.  Mike & Pat Heiser, are the leaders in Kenya.  Regional Directors; Obed, Victor, Stanley and of course my guide Dennis.  I've grown to love Dennis as my own kids.  Of course our partners here in the United States play an important part too.  Facebook has kept us all connected.

Pat, Mike & Linus~

Many of you don't know Connie Hoge but she is the one who has built this blog, which gives me another avenue of getting my words out to everyone.  I just write and she puts it into a blog for all of you to read. She and her husband Butch, along with many other partners want us to succeed in Kenya.

#3 Finances:  If I would have gone back to Kenya in two months I wouldn't have had the MONEY. Over the past few months our bank account has been increasing daily more and more.  We have a Blessing Box over at the post office;  P.O. Box 228, Glenwood, Iowa 51534. We have several partners who send MONEY to our Blessing Box. We believe our Blessing Box is full in Jesus Name.

Yesterday, the blessing box was full of blessings, over $1,100 came in to our Ministry! Sometimes when our work at the Gathering Place is not very busy, our blessing box is very busy! God, knows what our NEED is, not our wants.  I wanted to go back right away, God wanted a perfect work, complete, entire, and lacking nothing. Thanks be to God for meeting our needs not our wants.

Just by reading the blog you have become Partners with us and our relationship becomes stronger by reading the daily news of Acts 29 Ministry and the Gathering Place.  If you come into the Gathering Place you have become a partners with us.  Whether it is once or every day, you are a partner with our ministry and we want to thank you for your relationship with us!  You may be one of the many volunteers who help us while I'm in Kenya, our partners.

We are a month out and our big need for the trip right now - is a computer for me to take to Kenya. I don't want a big one, just one I can type on and not have to use my big fingers and thumbs on to keep in contact with our partners during the trip.

Thanks for being a partner!!

Linus