Being at mid-year this week has been a total joy. It’s not that I enjoy being cold (and it has been) nor away from my family but that I’ve really missed being with the TSCF gang of students, staff, MInterns, graduates, supporters and visitors. It’s hit me again what a privilege it is that God has called and placed me in this work; it’s reminded me of how painful it’s been over the last year to be away from the work and the people who God has given me to serve.
Students and staff have both said that it’s good to see me again. I’ve not found the words to express how great it is to be here to be seen but also to see, to share with and to be ‘back’ in the work God is doing in TSCF. Mostly I’ve said ‘it’s great to be here!’ which is an anaemic way of saying what I really want to say: that it is amazing to back and I’ve been on the edge of being overly emotional all week with gratitude.
It’s also been brilliant to see this year’s MINTY gang in action. They have served well with humility, fullness of heart and unstinting faithfulness through the week.
On Wednesday Nigel shared during the TSCF AGM about our dream to share the gospel. It isn’t a usual experience to hear stuff at an AGM that you find transforming and life re-orientating truth: but Nigel isn’t a usual sort of person and God used him extraordinarily in the AGM. You can read what he said HERE.
We are dreaming together. We are living the dream together. We are small and despite great weakness, under God’s grace there are great adventures ahead.
This week has reminded me that I am living the dream – a dream which God planted into my heart: serving Him where he has sent me, doing what he has set for me to do, alongside others who love Him too. It is a mystery to me, a joyful one, how I ended up here because I’m not worthy of so great a privilege. May God be praised for his kindness in Jesus Christ!!!
For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
2 Corinthians 4:5-10
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