This Hotel is a direct result of God feeling sorry for me having for having to drive the teams from the Villa Belvedere to Zone 9. I know waah.. waah... waah.. poor Troy... and is also a direct result of my prayers being answered. God is so incredible in how He answers our specific needs. Imagine, one man, asking God for a huge orange hotel where the teams can work out of and not have to be hauled all over town. Shazam, Out of no where a construction crew shows up, a Hotel is built and the first people to ever stay in it will be from Cameron Missouri!
Ok! So it is not opened yet but for half price what do you expect! Jay, Michele, Joel and Morgan Raines along with Tracy and Caleb Smart, Andrew Stephens, and Alex Walker will enter this construction zone in just 10 days! They will be the first of three teams from Cameron Missouri. They owe a great deal of debt to the Living Word Baptist Church who broke the ice for us this year in Zone 9. This time I am ready for the team as Living Word was not so fortunate! Oh! Yeah, Lanny and Whitney Wake are also on this team. There are some things you try and forget about and they just won't go away!
They will arrive here on the 15th and depart on the 20th. This is enough time for them to start several groups and hand over the work to the next team that is arriving on the 22nd. They are Casey Joyce, Abigail Kincade, Taylor Love and Travis Mc Cartney. They will continue the work while at the same time working with another team from the states. Jay will take the lead as I have decided to take my family to Greece instead! (Actually we must go to our Annual Group Meeting {AGM} that week) This will really stretch our team as they try and push forward in the Galati Plan without their fearless missionary. This is something Pastor Jay has been praying about for three years now! This second team is leaving on the 30th. Leaving the progress they make for team number three. This team will probably have to find people who speak English and just start from there. It will be very interesting to see how this will work.
Then July 6th the third team consisting of Landon McCoy, Evelyn Clemons, Nancy Miles and Rosmarie Deevers together with Lanny and Whitney will work until the 15th. We think this is enough time to start at least one more group. If all three teams are able to focus their efforts, they may be able to form a group or two that will continue even after they leave. Can you imagine how exciting that would be! I made the mistake of removing Living Word Baptist in the evenings, opting instead for the Big Event that turned out to be a BIG FLOP working in the valley, Zone 6. If I had it to do over I would put them on the streets over in Zone 9 in the evenings. This is when the picking is RIPE as they found out on the last night of their trip!We need to really discover a way to find people who are already in a group and bring them into a study. They will be able to do this far more efficient now that we have a training center in Zone 9. Compliments of Cane Creek Stoddard Baptist. This has proven to be a real GOD SEND. May God bless Marshal Link and these churches 100 times over for this.
Now we are on the first floor. The rooms are not quite finished yet.. but hey...we still have ten more days...right guys! Don't sweat the "small details" is my motto. The rooms themselves will have everything needed. But the Hotel won't be open for another couple of months. Some of you don't even have your PASSPORTS YET! We need to pray about this.....please stop and pray for those on the team that STILL do not have their passports.
A typical room for extraordinary people! Imagine getting to sleep two or three hours a night in between leading people to Christ. I think these rooms will be very nice as the entire team will get to stay in the same place. We decided not to go with the apartment idea.
See everything is in place...... well almost!
They assured me that all items will be in working order. Don't "hold your breath" but I am thinking that the rooms will be ready by then. I hope so! Of course, I will be staying in my nice comfortable house. So I won't be skiing behind this boat! I will send pictures of Lanny trying to though. This is a little Cameron First joke that they really get a kick out of....you would really like them once you get to know them though!
Now we are on the first floor. The rooms are not quite finished yet.. but hey...we still have ten more days...right guys! Don't sweat the "small details" is my motto. The rooms themselves will have everything needed. But the Hotel won't be open for another couple of months. Some of you don't even have your PASSPORTS YET! We need to pray about this.....please stop and pray for those on the team that STILL do not have their passports.
A typical room for extraordinary people! Imagine getting to sleep two or three hours a night in between leading people to Christ. I think these rooms will be very nice as the entire team will get to stay in the same place. We decided not to go with the apartment idea.
See everything is in place...... well almost!
They assured me that all items will be in working order. Don't "hold your breath" but I am thinking that the rooms will be ready by then. I hope so! Of course, I will be staying in my nice comfortable house. So I won't be skiing behind this boat! I will send pictures of Lanny trying to though. This is a little Cameron First joke that they really get a kick out of....you would really like them once you get to know them though!
Please pray for them...they are coming to build the Kingdom and that is what it IS all about!
Pray that I will feed them better then I did my own beloved HOME church. They almost kicked me out of the fellowship the first day they were here and for several other reasons ...but My Pastor is a man of GRACE and wouldn't let them!
