Yesterday Sarah took her 1 am flight – San Pedro Sula to Florida to TX, en route to Oklahoma City (OKC), for her three month summer internship. She is en route to the rest of her life, and we enjoyed special family times this week — as she flew from our nest into her eager-to-be-arrived-to journey. We have encouraged her through the years to individualize her walk with the Lord, making it her own. We have drawn attention – through the years – less with specific behaviors, but more with inner values. Her time in Egypt last year complimented with her time in Peru the previous summer stirred and awoke within Sarah her an awareness of personalized identity and individuality. This last month, to our surprise and glee, she talked with her church (a CAM-mission church here in Honduras) that she wanted to be baptized before heading north. There was no “official” baptism planned for that month, yet she took the bull by the horns. She had no concern that no one else was also slotted to identify with Jesus publically. And so that was fun! She has blossomed. Please be with Sarah in spirit as she ministers in the inner city this summer (three months – MAY, JUNE, JULY) in OKC. And, too, for her trek to John Brown University in Arkansas in AUGUST.
Patrick & Debbie