Project Med Send

Praise God for his continued faith and calling to lead us to Ethiopia!

It has been a long journey for our two families, but full of God's leading and faithfulness.

We just found out that we are both going to be receiving grants from Project Medsend.

"MedSend enables highly qualified and dedicated healthcare professionals to serve spiritually and physically needy people around the world in the name of Christ. We do this by making their monthly educational loan payments while they serve. Without MedSend, these healthcare professionals would need to spend years working in the U.S. to pay off their educational debt before going and being able to answer God’s call to serve – and many would never make it to the mission field at all."

That is a great burden off of each of our families.  

In addition they told us that they would pay for us to attend a great conference, the ECHO conference in Florida this fall.  This is a conference we had heard about and wanted to go, but didn't know if it would fit into our budget and schedule. This is a description from their website.

 "Many common health problems around the world come from unhealthy behavior. Motivating people to make behavioral changes is difficult because the roots of behavior are in culturally determined beliefs and values. The arena for promoting behavioral changes is in dialogue about the cultural values and beliefs that underlie behavior.

This workshop will enable Christian health and community development personnel to help people improve their own health, agriculture, and nutrition through understanding and applying scientific, biblical and culturally appropriate principles, and making behavior changes necessary for transformational development."

What an exciting season for our families!

Let the Nations be Glad!

Psalms 67:3-4 

May the peoples praise you, O God; may all the peoples praise you. May the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you rule the peoples justly and guide the nations of the earth. Selah

As we have been preparing to move to Ethiopia, We have been working with The Lord to really define His calling on our lives and How we are to join with His purposes in each different season. 

He has been forming in us for 12+ years a heart to show the Love of Jesus to those who have never heard of Him and to watch the nations turn and worship a true and beautiful God.

He had given us a heart to see healing and transformation in the lives of the oppressed, poor and broken. He has shown us that He specifically is calling us to have particular skill sets that He will use to minister physical and spiritual healing that will pour over into transformation on not only an individual level but also on a community level. 

He has also shown us that our nuclear family is our closest sphere in which we are to minister and disciple our children giving them high priority even when we are surrounded by other great needs. 

Another calling which has been developing for many years, but has recently become more defined is: a calling to connect the western church (the body of Christ in the U.S) with God's heart for the nations! This has been a really sweet process. We have felt that God had called us to connect people with God's heart for Ethiopia and were trying to see how God would have us do this. During this process, we went camping and had a late night camp fire conversation with our closest friends Amber and Brian Dowd who challenged us to press in and determine if this really is our calling or if it just "sounded like a good idea". The next morning at our campground, I sat before The Lord in a camping chair (hoping my kids wouldn't wake up yet) and I asked The Lord to really speak to me about this and I wanted to receive His words about this calling. It was sweet because He showed me what had been there all along, but I couldn't define it as clearly before. He showed me that part of our calling was to connect the body of Christ here in the U.S. with God's heart for the nations! His heart for those who don't know Him, for the broken, oppressed, poor, widowed. He showed me that one of our roles will be to engage or awaken (or reawaken) the church to God's heart for rescuing, restoring, transforming the nations and making Himself known and worshipped among the nations! 

Let the nations be glad!! 

-Kavi