Encounters in Target

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Well, January has just wound down and I've had a good three weeks of my new lifestyle. Always in our minds is - where next? God, we're as ready as we'll ever be. So, prayed together on Wednesday morning that God would direct us to some people and opportunities. Then, within 24 hours a couple of "coincidences happen.

I'm off to Target with the kids on a Wednesday evening, and am just fueling them up with Iceeze as any good responsible parent would, when I run into a couple I haven't met in 3 years. The guy did music at Trinity for a while. We chat for a bit and then he brings up the fact that they were until recently considering doing oversees missions, in Europe of all places. I told him frankly the subject was of absolutely no interest to me and walked off..... Not exactly! So I got his email and hope to follow up with them about what they were considering doing with church planting in Belgium. Not the kind of conversation you expect in Target...

The following morning we meet with Ursula Spooner, a delightful older lady who "just happened" to be one of the speakers at our missions conference at Trinity last week. She "just happens" to have done missions in Central and Eastern Europe for the last 25 years, and lives in a town called Vienna, Austria (I think that's how you spell it...) So we have a great chat and she tells us about some opportunities such as the Vienna Christian school. 

So the moral of the story is that praying together can be hazardous to your health! Seriously, if you're reading this, God bless you, and pray for us for wisdom!