Blessed Beyond Measure

The Kenya team! The Klassen Family, The Downs Family, Brad & Jen Bell, Loni Weber, & Charlotte Teisinger.

And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be the head over everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.

Ephesians 1:22-23

Today I can't help but proclaim the magnificence of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He is the Head of us, those who believe Him, and we are His Body! I am in awe and humbled that those who trust Jesus are "the fullness of Him who fills everything in every way". I have seen this in action countless times and have been marveling at how His Body works and moves as His hands and feet and arms and toes and legs and nose. We look to our Head for all direction and ability to do anything for His glory.

13 of us in the Body have the privilege of going to Kenya in 40 some days as the feet, sharing the gospel with others as we walk along, while over 50 precious people have personally given sacrificially (through prayer, encouraging words, and financially) to the Downs household to enable us to go share the love of Jesus. I would guess a couple hundred people have been involved in one way or another for our whole team. I wish we could take every single one of them with us because of how instrumental each have been in enabling us to go. We couldn't go without the Church functioning as the Lord designed it.

So this morning my heart is soaring and blessed beyond measure. I try to calculate it and simply can't wrap the measuring tape around it, because it is eternal Kingdom work and the Lord works miraculously! Some things we just can't put in words. I know with confidence that everything is for the Lord's name and fame.

We are honored to serve the One who gave His life for us.