Birmingham Summers

Well a couple days ago we had our last family dinner with the International students and I started to wonder to myself, just how fast did this month actually go by. Well the answer was way too quickly. It feels like just yesterday I was sitting in an airport for five hours waiting for the rest of the team, that I had never met or seen, to get there so i could have a ride to Asbury House. Then it literally feels like minutes ago I was at table with Naomi teaching English and Bible stories to Hitomi and Saloiva. I think it really hit home when Hitomi handed me a present that she had made for me. The note said thank you for talking about Christ in such a clear way so that she could understand it even though she doen't know English very well. The thing is that I really didn't know what I was doing at that table. I stuck with Naomi because she had a background in Japanese culture and relating the gospel to Asian people and I figured I could just sit back and learn from her. But then I get this note that say's even in my feeble attempts to communicate Christ with someone, He used it to impact her life. I was blown away and I really didnt know what to say about it all. It's been a fantastic month and I'm in London now doing debreifing and a bit of sightseeing with the rest of the team. Just to know that God used 9 students who had no clue what was gonna be happening really makes me smile. We serve such a great God and even when we don't expect much, He gives a lot.