1/19/2013

7 weeks!!!!

It's hard to believe that in just 7 weeks, Haley and I and our team will be leaving for Ethiopia! We are so very, very excited! So expectant! God is doing big things in our hearts and I know it's gonna get even bigger once we are there. So many questions already fill my mind......





-Will I just go back to my normal, blessed way of life? God forbid.. I pray not... but what does that look like? To be face to face with desperate need, poverty and countless, father and motherless children that desperately need and want love, and a forever family. To then return home.... To comfort. To excess. To stuff.

- How will this change Haley? Her world view. Her young and tender loving heart. Will this be a catalyst that thrusts her towards loving Jesus and others more?

-What does being changed forever, through and through, even look like? What will it look like for the Ledbetter family? 

-What's next? We have always had a heart for an even larger family and adoption...Dell and I. We already feel called to fostering children here in Wisconsin and already have applications and paperwork filled out. What and who and how and what do we choose? 

-Am i ready? For all the work God's gonna do. For all the overhaul I know He's bringing to our life. For the changes that are imminent. For the refinement.




God is up to big things, and Dell, in such a cute and sweet way, has made some predictions..or maybe they're even prophecies. WE~as a couple~ as a team~ as a family~ are so excited and ready for whatever God has in store for us all and I am so thankful for this man God has gifted to me....this leader...this friend....this dad and shepherd of our family! 

This life is such an amazing journey, and it is unbelievable, unfathomable, how God orchestrates and moves and works and brings these divine appointments and assignments into our lives at just the right moment and precise times. 

~Prayer requests~
 -Haley and I have appts on Tue. to get information and receive some of        our vaccinations. The others will hopefully be ordered and received ASAP.

- For the financial end of things to come together. *if you feel led to partner with us in this way, please follow the link and instructions at the bottom.*

-For the continued health of our team.

-For relationships within our team to continue to grow and deepen with each other.

-For Haleys passport to get here soon!

I'll leave you for now with Ephesians 4:14-21. What a great, big, mighty, loving, righteous, all-powerful and knowing Lord Christ that we serve and what a gift our Helper gives...His Spirit that dwells with us... in us. I pray that this will be the prayer of your heart tonight, for your life, wherever you are at in your journey.
" For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of His glory He may grant you to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith- that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and  to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly than all we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen."














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Notes Field: Heather and Haley Ledbetter