Door in Ferrara, Italy

Well Friends, I am home. After 24 hours of travel, planes, trains, buses, ferries, and sidewalks. Just for fun I figured this out yesterday:
Home: Anderson Island, WA -> Ferry -> Car -> Plane -> “L” Train -> Chicago -> Car -> Plane -> Train -> Ferry -> Foot -> Amsterdam -> Foot -> Ferry -> Train -> Plane -> Plane -> Car -> Padova, Italy -> Car -> Train -> Bus -> Plane -> Plane -> Train -> Bus -> Foot -> Amsterdam -> Foot -> Bus -> Train -> Plane -> Plane -> Bus -> Bus -> Ferry -> Car -> Home: Anderson Island, WA

Whew!! Lots of travel for me in the past couple of weeks from one place to another. And the entire time God took care of me; He watched over me and made sure I made it home safely and 1 day early! I am so thankful that God allowed me to catch a standby flight earlier out of Chicago yesterday (the second “Plane” between “Amsterdam and “Home”), which allowed me to make the last ferry to my Island and sleep in my own bed last night. God also provided some incredible people for me to talk to on my journey.

Just two days ago I finally picked up the book “the Heavenly Man” and started reading it. My faith in God and my joy in the revelation of the Gospel has been greatly renewed! The Heavenly Man is Brother Yun, an evangelist and pastor who has been persecuted for the Gospel in China and yet has not been quieted. He suffered three prison sentences, many beatings, and near death; and yet he serves only Jesus. My prayer the past two days has simply been, “God, let me have that kind of faith. Let me have that kind of singular vision.”
Remember what it is like to worship God with abandon? To prioritize what He holds important? Me too, and the problem for me is that it has been too long.
Rev. 2:5 [to the church in Ephesus] “Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first…”

Please Pray for me as I finish my paperwork with AGWM and begin to raise support. Pray that God would give me favor with man for such things as missions approval and visa papers. And pray for me, like John the baptist prayed; that I would become less and that HE would become more.

jacob