Flying High

I walked out of the house to go to work this morning and it looked horrible. Dark clouds, monsoon type rain, and plus its only Wednesday. This is just adding up to be a great day <----(sarcasm). And just to make matters worse....I have a MILLION things to do....new responsibilities at work, ministry projects coming up, and a little thing called life.

But then I got an email that just changed my day completely around. A few months ago, our ministry held an event called Jesusade, a fund raising basketball tournament that helped build a well in Africa through The Water Project. We had a lot of fun organizing and planning the event and donated almost $2,000. After the event, we all felt really great, but life just moved on.

To be honest, since that tournament, life has been super-overwhelming for me and there have been plenty of times that I wanted to take a break from ministry and just focus on life. But this email changed all that. The President of the Water Project sent me an update on how our donations from last year are being used. With the help of the Chicago community, we were able to build a well for the Butere Girls High School in Kenya to serve over 1,200 students and 120 staff!!! (see pic above)

Talk about encouragement! Just the little work that we did as a community helped out young kids who needed fresh drinking water halfway across the globe. Not to boast in ourselves at all, but this is all by God's grace. We have so much and when you give back and literally see the impact, it is amazing.

I read a verse on this cool website called verseoftheday.com and today's verse was awesome and relates to this soo much:

"Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and will not be faint.

— Isaiah 40:31 (NIV)"

Who cares if its Wednesday, muggy, cloudy, and raining. I'm soaring.

Check out more details on our project at: http://thewaterproject.org/community/projects/kenya/new-well-in-kenya-418

God bless,

Jobbin