Posted by Mike McDaniel on Nov 30th, 2009 | 0 comments
If I didn’t know any better, you would think that I orchestrated the events to coincide. I couldn’t have put the events together had I tried. I am simply not smart enough. The story goes (and I am sticking to it) that I was coming to Zambia to look for Memory. I sent word ahead of my coming to every worker and national church planter I had worked with and had their contact info. I...
Posted by Mike McDaniel on Nov 28th, 2009 | 0 comments
Gift, Memory and Faith
The journey to find Memory has been an intense, emotional journey for many. One of the things I have learned about emotions is we ourselves must commandeer them and seek to shape them. I can truly say that when I left Gift (Memory’s husband) and Memory’s home yesterday I left with joy in my heart. I will explain. First I need to set the record...
Posted by Mike McDaniel on Nov 27th, 2009 | 0 comments
Today’s road to Memory has been full of many twists and turns, ups and downs, sprinkled with a few pot holes. But hey…after all this is Africa. What more could you expect? Smooth answers to tough questions? That would be too easy.
My Thanksgiving was spent bouncing around Livingstone, Zambia and many of its compounds looking for one African orphan girl. Compounds are like little...
Posted by Mike McDaniel on Nov 26th, 2009 | 0 comments
“I call to you from the ends of the earth
When my heart is without strength
Lead me to a rock that is high above me”
Psalm 61:2 (HCSV)
Arriving in South Africa last night and falling into bed exhausted…yet with my heart racing. I felt I needed a verse on my heart to calm my mind and settle my spirit. I read Ps 61. Verse 2 spoke directly to me – in where I was and...
Posted by Mike McDaniel on Nov 24th, 2009 | 0 comments
We’ve exhausted the phones, emails, our Zambian and ex-pat contacts at this point. It’s going to take some hands on in the field work now. These are goals in this trip that would constitute a win in the order that we see they need to happen; therefore they are the focus prayer requests. They are simple 3-4 word prayers you can pray throughout the day (1 Thess 5:17):
Find Memory. ...