I miss my wife…but she can leave anytime

I am so excited!  My wife left me on March 16th with a group of 7 other women.  This isn’t the first time she has left me.  She’s gone to Amazon without me, bungied with a team of volunteers off the Vic Falls bridge in Zambia without me (while would anybody jump off a perfectly good bridge), she discovered, with 3 other ladies from GPC, a little village in just south of Timbuktu, Mali without me.  We call the village “K-village” for antimony reason.  For reasons I won’t go into on this blog.  She does a lot of cool stuff without me.  She is strong, courageous, beautiful and HOT.

We do a lot together: raise 3 awesome children, start churches, travel on mission to 20+ countries together, but I am so proud of her that she is a confident and capable leader, communicator and missiologist.

Lori may have left me but in 4 hours and 23 minutes (not that I am counting), I am picking her up from the airport and bringing her home.  She is returning from K-village where she traveled with the 7 other women.  They were armed with only their backpacks, and a translator or two, to live in a mud hut (AKA: the Grace Point Hilton), draw water from a well, and teach villagers about Jesus.  But to top it off she sprained her ankle while in the capital city and went to the bush on crutches…wait the story doesn’t end there.  K-village church (GPC first church plant) and GPC have been working together to see a 2nd generation church born in N-village some 2 hours walk away.  Despite the crutches and 100+ degree temps she and a couple of other ladies from the team and some leaders from K-village church traveled with her to N-village and shared more stories of Jesus.  Thirteen ladies became Christ followers in N-village.  There are now 19 Christ followers in a very remote village with a population of 600.  This is an amazing harvest in a predominate Muslim and animistic setting.

My wife left me…but she can leave anytime if this is the kind of work she is goin be about.

PS: she also proofs my blogs, but since she left me I might need your help with my grammar or spelling, send any needed correction to mike@gracepointchurch.net

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