Dear Family and Friends,

Well I said I would try to update this thing more often, and I have failed. I was informed that people back home really do read this, so now I have motivation to keep updating. It's such a blessing to know that people care enough about me and about what God is doing to read my updates (I'm smiling as I type this).

Things have died down a bit since the Pageant. It was such an intense two weeks of training, studying, praying, and talking to people that everybody who is a part of the ministry here had to take a rest last week. Things are back to the norm now. During that week I recognized one of the Devil's traps. It seems that after an intense time of spiritual warefare many of us don't know how to rest in the Lord. Actually, I think the problem is that we think we need to take a rest from the Lord. This is one of the Devil's lies. It's so easy to say "Well I studied so much last week, or I prayed this many hours yesterday, I should be good for a while." This is far from the truth. God sees our hearts' and knows our motives. God is the one who renews our strength. We should be resting in him and not from him. We can trust that we will strengthen and renew our motivation and our drive.