Can it really be December 1st again so soon?! It seems like I just packed away all the Christmas paraphernalia! This year has flown by and I wish somehow that I could slow things down just a bit. There is so much to do in the short time that we have left of this year.

Dr. Luis' apartment should be finished within the month. Ruben, one of the young men who we have known and loved since we came to Guatemala has become quite the skilled woodworker. We still need to build
cabinets and put in the bathroom sink. But we should be able to finish by the end of January when they arrive. It is hard to believe that a few months ago, this was the garage/Duane's very messy workshop!

The hospital property apartment is underway as well. Ryan and Katie will move there until they can locate a more permanent living situation. The house was there on the property but was very rundown and had been the home to various cows and other wild creatures. The men gutted it, tore out walls, put in windows (most homes here don't have many windows), put down tile and added a bathroom. It is a pretty amazing transformation!
It too needs cabinets, bathroom fixtures, plumbing, a ceiling, and some electrical work.

Then there is the small problem of where to put the teams who will start to come to help with the construction beginning in January. We have decided to build a very simple concrete block building on the hospital property. In its two rooms (and bathroom) we hope to house up to 12 men.

And, the school needs an additional classroom to house the rapidly growing population of students. That too will be a very simple structure which, thankfully, will not need a bathroom. They make everything so much more complicated!

I haven't even begun to talk about the hospital. The fence is complete, the concrete plant is up and ready, and they have hauled literally hundreds of loads of dirt to bring the actual site up to grade...not really sure what that means,
 but I know it is important.
 

The hardest part is that the work that we did before all of this project began, continues. Duane still does emergency flights on a pretty regular basis, the tractor work for local farmers continues, and I am still gone a good portion of the time with clinic work. So, when you think of it, could you send up some extra prayers for Duane and the boys as the brunt of the construction responsibility lies on their shoulders? They are pretty stressed right now. And yet His grace is sufficient everyday!

Forgive me if it sounds like I am whining...I am not. We count it the greatest honor to serve the Lord in this way. We know that all of things are from Him and to Him...to serve His people well.The knowledge of that makes us want to do the very best that we can for Him.
"If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen." 1 Peter 4:11

It's been a while since I've written. We've had so many visitors in the last couple of weeks. It's been really good but busy!

The Lord keeps confirming to us the need for this hospital - which is good and necessary for those days when it gets hard and the work seems overwhelming. We got a call about two weeks ago from an indigenous family who had a 3 week old baby. He wouldn't stop crying and although it was late and pouring down rain, they brought him. Dr. Sherwood and I saw him and knew that he probably had meningitis. There was nothing that we could do - he needed tests and treatment that we do not have. So we prayed and sent him off to Quiche (21/2 hours away, on really bad and muddy roads). They went the next morning and was immediately whisked away from his parents and placed in their "ICU." Pedro (the baby's dad) called us the next day, crying and saying that they could not find their son. We could hear screaming and sirens in the background and he said that there was a gas leak and that they were evacuating the hospital. It actually turned out to be chlorine gas that had been stored for many years and had begun to leak...they did evacuate the entire hospital! Pedro's son was taken to another facility there in the same town but still his parents were unable to see him and had no idea what was happening to him. Finally they told Pedro that his son had an infection but that there was nothing that they could do. So they sent him home and within a few hours he died. Now we know that even with the best, most up-to-date care children still die with meningitis. But we could have started his treatment earlier and hopefully cared for them in a more compassionate manner. Please help us Lord....

Psalm 145:9

The Lord is good to all, and his compassion is over all that he has made.

 

“Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves….” Genesis 11:4  

I have to admit that I have never really understood this passage but as we begin this huge building project, it has come to me several times. Construction projects have always scared me. I have watched plenty of marriages struggle through the building of a new home. I have watched church expansion projects become just about squeezing a little more money out of members each week. And yet, it seems that construction is just what the Lord is asking of us right now. Somehow, we have to figure out how to do just what He asks of us, while remembering that we are just His bond-servants….owners of nothing but managers of all that He places under our care. It is a tricky balance. As David said the other day, how do we do it well without it consuming us? How do we keep our eyes just on Him in the midst of a thousand details that need attention immediately? How do we make it only about Him and honoring Him and not in any way about “making a name for ourselves”? Please pray for us… 

On the flip side, we are in awe of how God is supplying all that is necessary to begin the construction…from skid loaders to cement truck. The fence is close to being done and the gate is completed. We are still waiting on the final approval from the Ministry of Health but trust that it will come just as we are completely ready to begin the actual construction.  

Our son Ryan, his wife Katie, and their three children arrived this week. It is an amazing miracle of God that we are able to have 7 of our 8 children here with us working together on this project. What a joy to have almost all of our grandchildren here as well. I know that it is only God’s grace to us….and we are so very thankful! Hannah and Matt remain in the US and help in so many things that can only be done there.

 

 

Last Tuesday in Chiminisijuan, a little 100 year old woman came in to clinic.  Completely blind,she had walked at least 3 miles and one of the paths is so narrow on the side of the mountain....I have no idea how she actually made it. She was alone and as she walked up the last few steps to the clinic, she had to crawl. Finally one of the widows who we know very well stopped to help her in. She came for her body pain...nothing too specific - just old age aches and pains. When we finished working, we woke her up where she had fallen asleep outside in the grass and we drove her out to the main road. We had to stop and ask several people if they knew this little lady sitting in the backseat of my car until we found someone who identified her. She walked on home then from there.

It has occurred to me several times since then that our life right now is so much like hers. We walk - not really knowing what is ahead - knowing that if we make a wrong step, we could tumble down the mountainside. That's a lot of pressure.... We just trust though, that He will lead and guide us and keep us from falling . Psalm 119:105 says "Thy word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path."


Here's a quick update on all that has happened in the last few weeks -
 - Duane made a super-fast trip to the US to help Ryan organize a load of construction equipment to be shipped. We have never taken loads this way and it (so far) has gone really well. It all has actually already arrived in Port Barrios and we are waiting for the government to release it. The taxes turned out to be much lower than we expected - Thanks be to GOD!
 - There has been an amazing amount of equipment donated (and I am not the one to tell you about it!) including a concrete truck, a skid loader, concrete forms and a long list of other necessary tools.
Many thanks to all the men who have worked so diligently and tirelessly to accumulate all of this. Again, all praise be to GOD!
 - Our son Ryan, his wife Katie, and their three children will arrive on the 13th of September. They feel that the Lord is directing them to come on a permanent basis and they will be an enormous help. Ryan is a manager and will be invaluable in helping Duane manage all the workers as we start the actual hospital construction. Katie will be a mom first but is a great hostess who has an ability to see all the details that folks need when they arrive. And I will be soooo happy to have more of our grandchildren close! Thanks be to GOD!
 - The construction of the apartment for Dr. Luis and his family is underway. It will be small but hopefully adequate for their growing family. Our friend Juan has stepped up to take the responsibility of this and is doing a great job. All thanksgiving to GOD!
 - The fence is about 2/3 of the way to completion around the first phase of the hospital, a new gate has been made and is 1/2 up (we had to pour a new bridge over the canal and it needs many days to "cure" before we can put up the other section.) 
 - We have had a good couple of weeks working with Dr. Jared and his wife, Dr. Melissa. They have been great! And Dr. Heidi was here to bring such encouragement - as she always does. We also hosted a youth team from Destiny Church (our home church). They did lots of painting, poured a new porch to accommodate the changes to the house (dividing it into three apartments - eventually), and we had amazing nights of worship in the evenings. They were a huge blessing to us and even when we did not have water for the last 4 days of their trip, their attitudes remained enthusiastic and grateful. All praise be to GOD! 

We continue to be in awe of all that God is doing here. Please pray that we have wisdom that can come only from God. Pray that we will continue to put Him first in all things - no matter how busy and chaotic it all seems at times. Thanks for reading!

Angelita and Josephina are two of my favorite people. They have both lived in the orphanage in San Andres for many years. Josephina has a lesion in her brain which has gotten progressively worse over the 15 years that I have known her. She is confined to a wheelchair now and has trouble with normal activities like eating and dressing herself but she is sharp. She never complains and always has a smile on her face. Angelita has Down's syndrome. She too, has been in the Home for as long as I can remember. She is like a grandmother now for the younger kids - no one really knows how old she is. The government has advised the directors to send both of them to an adult home in the City but for both of these women, this has been the only home that they have ever known. So even though they are lots more work for the staff, they stay and are cared for with so much love....it humbles me. Both women share not only a room but their bed as well - along with their cat. They try, to the best of their ability, to take care of each other and when one is sick, the other grieves.

In the last couple of years Angelita has had trouble with urinary tract infections. She was seen by a visiting urologist a couple of years ago who eventually had to catheterize her under anesthesia. Since then, when she begins to have trouble, I end of doing this "evil thing". She never complains about the pain that she has or the fact that she pees blood (at least not appropriately or to the right people who can help her) but when she stops eating we know something is wrong. This time she was quiet for so long that her kidneys have become affected - which makes her treatment much more difficult (not only catheterization and antibiotics but daily injections of antibiotics). When she sees me now, she begins to cry. It is impossible for her to understand the long term consequences of infection left untreated. But she does understand that she does not want to be in the hospital - which would be her only other option. I so admire the staff there who, while so understaffed, give her so much love. When her time to die comes, I know that she will be in the place that she calls home surrounded by the people who are the only family that she has ever known.  

James 1:27 says, "Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world."

Other updates here -
 - The school started their second semester last week. Adrienne brought her biology class down to the clinic on Friday to observe ultrasounds. They are beginning to study fetal development and were super excited about what they got to see. It was lots of fun to see their enthusiasm!
 - The professional nursing (RN equivalent) is still on track to start in January.
 - Pre-construction activities - like, getting power and water to the site have begun. We will still need a well dug and are looking into prices for that. Lots of loads of dirt have been hauled in the get the building site "on grade".....whatever that means. The fence has been begun - the street side with gate should be completed this week.
 - Duane will probably be making a trip to the US next week to help get the load of construction equipment loaded and ready for shipment. We are amazed at the amount and quality of equipment that the Lord is providing!
 - The apartment for Dr. Luis and his family has been started...

Please pray that the final government approval for the hospital will come through this week! It has been - and continues to be quite the process!

Amid all the changes and visitors coming and going, clinic still proceeds. A few weeks ago, a young mother whom we have known for several years came into Chiminisijuan. I had not seen her for a while and she had lost quite a bit of weight and had a huge belly. On ultrasound we found that she had ascites (liquid that accumulates in the abdomen) which often means some sort of malignancy. We sent her to our friend Dr. Heidi who happened to be in Chichicastenango to do GYN surgeries. They did all sorts of tests and did not find any cancer. They drained the fluid and sent her home without a diagnosis but with advice to seek help in the City (which I knew she would not do).

About 10 days later, Heidi called me with the really good news that some of her exams had come back and that she had tuberculosis...pretty advanced but still treatable. So we contacted her husband and her sister to let them know, gave them all the instruction about where they could get treatment and trusted that they would do that. The next week I asked several from their village if she had gone, tried to call her again, spoke with her daughter but still they did not take her. In their defense, she would have had to be carried up a steep mountain on a stretcher between 4 men, then rent a truck to take her the 4 hours to the hospital - at the cost of about $150. They have 6 children and very little food, much less money to rent a car. And they had tried...her husband had taken her 3 times into the government clinic, once to the hospital, and then to us. They had little hope that anyone would actually help them. 

This weekend, I saw Isabella's husband on the street in San Andres. When I asked him about her, he said that she was dying, that she could no longer eat and was in severe pain. We went together to the government clinic to ask if they might be able to pick her up in the ambulance and get her into the hospital. The doctor in charge said, no, that the hospital was full. There were no options. Isabella has asked Jesus into her heart, so I know that soon her suffering will be over. There is a pretty good possibility though, that her children may have tuberculosis. And, if they go to be tested, will they get treatment? 

God keeps confirming over and over the importance of getting this hospital up and running.  It seems pretty overwhelming most days but we wait on Him for we know that "they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; and they shall walk and not faint." Isaiah 40:31

 

It has been a few weeks since I have written. We were first in Switzerland for our son Joseph's wedding. It was wonderful! Jessica is  a beautiful addition to our family and we were honored to get to know her family. Jo and Jess will be here with us in Guatemala.

After the wedding we went back to the US for 10 days with all of our family. We have 7 grandchildren now (all under the age of 6) plus Abi and Grace. It was joyful chaos from beginning to end....a privilege that we do not often have.

But back here in Canilla things are moving! The closing date for the hospital property is the 8th of May and I can thankfully report that all $192,000 has been gathered. God is amazing and we stand in awe of His miraculous provision....in just 6 months! Equipment is beginning to come as well. We have a trailer full of hospital beds, tables, nursery equipment, exam tables and medicines waiting to be transported to Guatemala. The x-ray equipment is already here in country and waiting to be transported to Canilla.

The school is growing daily and yesterday we received notification that the University San Pablo has approved our petition to open a branch here in Canilla. We will be getting the professional nursing program up and running as quickly as possible and there are dreams of a medical school here as well. The way that God has been moving in the last few months, nothing would surprise me!

Please continue to pray that we have wisdom to manage all that God has placed in our hands. We are daily reminded that we are owners of nothing but in charge of all that He gives. We need lots of wisdom, discernment, and grace!

"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing." John 15:5.



Hospital Adonai is finally starting to come together after it has been a vision for so many years. The plans have been drawn and are in the final stages of approval with the government. In November 2013, the ministry took a step of faith by putting a down payment on a piece of property that we believed was the correct location for the hospital to be built. The final payment ($186,000) is due in May 2014. We have nearly $150,000 (the majority of that coming from DOCS for HOPE) at this point in time - an absolute miracle! We are also praying for financial provision for building materials so that we can begin construction as soon as possible. The total cost for this is estimated to be around $328,000. Phase one will include outpatient clinics, x-ray,  lab, two surgical suites, a delivery suite as well as inpatient capacity of twenty. God is really moving here, and we are more than excited to be part of it and to watch in awe as He brings the pieces together.                        

 

DOCS for Hope are a group of Family Practice doctors from Iowa who have recently committed to AIM and to be part of opening and running the hospital. Starting in January, they have been rotating through Guatemala to get a feel for language, clinics, and the true heart of the ministry. Please pray for them as they continue to come and visit throughout this year! Check out their website at docsforhope.org. They also have a couple of blogs from the doctors who have come down already this year - Epperlyadventures.blogspot.com and McQuillen'sfor hope.blogspot.com - to see their perspective on what God is doing here.

Instituto Adonai opened in February 2014 and is in session now. In this area, God has done so much more than we ever imagined. Aaron and Katie were joined by Greg and Helaine Walton, (a South African missionary couple) who committed to help start the school, and in the process, it has been completely transformed.  It is pretty amazing how God placed the vision in Katie and Aaron and then supplied this couple, who have had 15 years of experience within the Guatemalan educational system, alongside of them to guide and train them. Currently we are running a pre-medicine diploma program that prepares students to enter into medical or professional nursing school. There is also an English school in place that is being run by volunteers—some are just rotating through while others are here to stay.  And we are hopeful as we begin to talk with the University of San Pablo about opening a professional nursing program (the equivalent to RN) here as well. Please pray that God opens those doors as we will very soon need a qualified nursing staff! Education has proven to be such a valuable tool in our region to reach out to the people, so we are excited to see what this new area of ministry will bring.                                   

  Personal Update  We are happy to report that all is well in our family, even in the midst of adjustments to so many changes! Joseph and Jessica will get married in Switzerland in April, something we are all very excited about. The family is planning a trip to the States around that time as well. Everyone is looking forward to this time to come together as a family!

It seems that 2014 swung us into full transition mode. Many have come to visit and learn more about what God is doing here. It has been a gift to get to know so many people with hearts that desire to serve Jesus. So, while we have been essentially waiting on the timing and provision of God, we have been plenty busy! During AIM’s transition, every day looks a little different and things are constantly changing. Please keep us in your prayers as we go through this season of our lives!

Change has almost become routine around here lately—what an oxymoron that is. In a time of such transition, there are many people coming alongside AIM, some visiting while others are here to stay. Rotating through, there are so many different kinds of people with different gifts—from teachers to doctors (namely DOCS for Hope members), engineers to pilots, and everything in between. God is bringing together a very diverse group for this “big picture” vision of school and hospital functioning together and sustaining each other. Everyone is trying to find their roll and many are changing rolls. Honestly, it’s exciting and exhausting all at once. To actually be part of something of God and to know that his hand is on it is extraordinary. That’s what it feels like to be in Guatemala working with AIM right now. God is bringing people together who have vowed to be faithful to him and is putting their promise to the test. Day by day, He is piecing this vision together.

But do you know what is hard about this time? It’s that life is up in the air for almost every single person here. No one has the slightest idea what is going to happen or when it is going to happen. No one knows how or when God is going to provide, how or when he is going to reveal himself and his full plan to us. In many ways, we are truly practicing faith without seeing right now.

 “And without faith it is impossible to please him…(Hebrews11:6a).” So while faith is super hard to live out, Hebrews says it is literally impossible to please God apart from it. And that is what we live our lives for—to please our Creator. So faith has to be a natural extension of that.

Last week on the way home from clinic, we stopped the car in the middle of the road to find our once round tire as flat as a pancake. What an interesting time I knew we were in for when I looked at the four of us and decided in my mind that none of us had probably ever changed a tire in our lives. Out came the car manual, which may as well have been written in Morse code—our Spanish automotive repair vocabulary was surprisingly limited. We awkwardly looked for the jack (conveniently called “el gato” in the manual?), found it, and got to work. Half an hour of sweating later the tire was changed and we were on our way. It was not a particularly smooth or graceful process, but we just kind of figured it out as we went and got it done. For me, that’s kind of how faith is. It’s messy. I don’t really know what I’m doing most of the time—I just tell God that everything is His, pray a lot for discernment and wisdom, and use the Bible as a roadmap. It’s usually not graceful; it’s usually challenging and uncomfortable. But God can use the not-so-graceful—He can use anyone that comes to Him with an open heart.  “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’” (2 Corinthians 12:9a).  

In the end, we are just here to serve God the best that we can. We are instruments for Him to use, and gladly so. Please pray that our faith and dependence on God would come more and more naturally to us everyday, that it would be as easy as breathing to put complete trust in Him—a time of dependence on God can mean a time of spiritual growth. So glad that we serve a God who is always faithful!

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
    a time to be born, and a time to die;
    a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what its planted;
    a time to kill, and a time to heal;
    a time to break down, and a time to build up..... Ecclesiastes 3:1-3

So much of the time in our Christian walk, we wait. We do what is before us, but it often seems that we just plod along, persevering through circumstances that are difficult or mundane. But always there is a sense that something will change. We find ourselves in a season of change now....big changes. We see God moving in amazing ways, ways that are so much bigger than anything we could ever imagine. If we just look at our immediate circumstances, we become overwhelmed, thinking "ahh, there is no way God..." But when we surrender and do that which is before us, one step at a time, He is always there, leading, guiding, and giving to us that which we need.

I was talking to a gentleman yesterday about just that and I remembered back to our initial trip to Guatemala when we made the decision to come, sold all of our belongings and packed up a bus to drive through Mexico. Every single day of that trip was packed with difficulties and challenges, which were way out of our "comfort zone." But in each of those times He was there to sustain. The very first day that we left our home in Illinois, as we traveled through Oklahoma, it began to snow. We watched car after car slide down on either side of the road and we watched our son Aaron in the rearview mirror in our truck and attached trailer fishtail all over the road. When he radioed up to us and said, "Dad, I can't do this!", Duane looked at me and said, "Leslie, you drive the bus." Never in my life had I driven a bus - much less in the middle of a snow storm! But somehow - by God's grace, we made it to the hotel. When we turned on the news that night, they announced that we had just driven through the worst snowstorm in Oklahoma history.

I have remembered God's faithfulness in that moment so many times in the last few weeks. That is a little how we feel.....driving through circumstances that we have no experience for, with no knowledge of how to do it. But we feel His presence, His hand upon us, so we press on.... knowing that it is only by His grace that we are able to finish each day. Graham Cook says it this way, "there are no longer good days or bad days....just days of grace." May you feel His grace upon you today as you face whatever comes your way!

“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” (Ephesians 3:20)

As God is moving here, this verse keeps coming to my mind. He is literally doing more than we imagined. What kind of God is this that we serve, that can surpass our most creative thoughts?

Let me start with updates for the school. While we began with what I can now call a simple idea for an auxiliary nursing school, we currently have four schools rolled into one. The first is, in fact, an auxiliary nursing program. But when God does something, he doesn’t do it half way. Doors have now opened to do a pre-medicine bachelor degree program, a professional nursing school program, and an English school all beginning in February. I’ll go ahead and say it for you: holy cow. Not only this, but He dropped the Walton’s (a South African missionary couple) in our laps that have helped us through the whole thing. They have had much experience with opening schools in Guatemala, so their help has been invaluable. While God lined up everything, the truth is we had to fight hard for this school; praying and fasting, talking to people and meeting with people. But fighting is good. Sometimes, when you decide to respond to God’s call, you have to kick the doors down. And he delights in that.

The plans for the hospital are still progressing. While there are so many variables and unknowns, we are forced to take things day by day. Give us this day our daily bread, right? Isn’t that how Jesus teaches us to pray? So now we are just focusing on the next right thing. Once He provides the funding for the property, we will move. Until then, we wait on his timing and strive to be good stewards of what we have.

“Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!” (Psalm 27:14)

Meanwhile, I’m noticing more than ever the spiritual needs of the people in the places we serve. So many are so separated from God. It really nails down and simplifies the reason we are all here: so that the people of Guatemala might know Jesus. There is just an abundance of spiritual darkness in Chumisa, the village where we do monthly clinics. One known witchdoctor came in for a consult last week, but I could only think of the condition of his heart. I have so many times felt compassion for the people here, particularly for their physical and emotional hardships. But a person’s spiritual life completely surpasses all things. So when I started imagining a life without Jesus, I just felt broken for him. Now that I know Jesus, I know I can’t do my life without Him. And this is what I desire so much for these people that I have come to love. My hope lies in the promise of Isaiah 55:11, “so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.” God knows exactly what He’s doing, and nothing is too big or small for Him. May we continue to wholly place our trust in Him every single day!

2014...We know that this will be a year of change - and lots of it! And we are excited about what the Lord has in store for us!

We are frantically working to prepare a place for all the visitors coming this year. At the end of the month we will have 25 guests coming from all over and staying for various amounts of time. The "back house" is coming along...just not as quickly as we would like. Things like windows and cabinets have to all be made by hand - can't just run to Home Depot! Duane is usually up and out working by 5am. Once that is even semi-livable, we will move our family back there in order to give guests our home. The doctors who come will get a feel for living here with their small children, learn some Spanish, and hopefully will hear from the Lord!

The school opening has been delayed by government bureaucracy but we are hoping for a resolution today. The teachers have arrived and are helping in clinics and in preparation of the physical structure until the government releases the curriculum to us. Please pray that all the road blocks would be removed quickly! Along with the nursing school, we will begin to teach English classes. When we began to talk about the school, we realized that many people had a desire learn English and at the same time, the Lord sent three young women who have a desire to teach! Amazing how His timing is always perfect!

The hospital plans have been submitted to the government. There are 4 stages of approval that we must pass.... 1 down, and 3 to go. Nothing happens within government offices for pretty much the entire month of December but things are up and running again, so we are hoping that the process will speed up. One never knows with the government however - here or anywhere. So we wait, trusting again that His timing is perfect.

Amid all the change, clinics continue to be busy. Many of the men have left to work on the coast so women struggle alone to care for and provide food for their children. They come with their sick little ones or their complicated pregnancies. Those who need to go to the hospital in Quiche will not go now because they cannot without their husbands approval. Who will care for the other children? And how will they pay for the trip there? So we place each one into the hands of the only One who can ultimately heal and save, and we trust....

So trust seems to be the recurring theme as we enter into this new year. I am sure that it is the same in your life as well. We trust in His provision - financially, spiritually...in all ways.
Isaiah 26:3 says "You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You." May your mind (and ours) be securely fixed upon Him!