I love crunching beans!

Well,

It's been a whole week since my last post. My war with the numbers continues unabated. Today the numbers definitely scored a major victory, leaving me a little worn out but eager for tomorrow's battle.

On Friday there's a big "jefe" (boss) meeting of all the department heads that Steve Wilson wants me to attend and give some input about. Makes me feel like some kind of fancy business consultant.

Please pray that the meeting goes well with few conflicts. He also wants me to try to find a way to get a weekly budget report to the different department heads. Please pray about that. it will be a really big help to the jefes to see where they are on spending, but I've really been having trouble finding a way to get the numbers from the different accounting and finance programs they use at HCJB.

So... Something I've been thinking about lately...

I understand that accounting is important and a great help to missions, but I kinda feel a little "un-missional" right now. Missionaries are supposed to slog through the jungle carrying fifty pounds of Bibles, a wife, three kids, and food for a month on their backs, or plant churches in inner city Nairobi among rapists, hitmen and guys who steal candy from babies and that sort of thing. But here I am slogging away at a computer eight hours a day. Sometimes I wonder just why I'm here. I know that God has me here for a reason, which is abundantly clear by the ridiculous amount of money I was able to raise for this summer - thank you, God, and thank all of you who contributed.

Please pray for me to find peace in Christ alone, and not in where I am and what I'm doing. Pray that I will be able to see Christ work through accounting and administration. Pray that God would be able to touch lives through me being here. And pray that I would grow. I desperately want to know God more and to love him more deeply. If that means spending my whole summer counting beans and crunching numbers then I'll consider it a very small price to pay. Or is it counting numbers and crunching beans? I guess we'll find out.

Until next time...