Presentation

The last week that I was gone, Brianne (our 12 year-old) gave a presentation at my mom's church in Hamilton at their Wednesday night missions time. First she spoke to 8-12th graders and then she gave the presentation a second time to Elementary and Jr. High age. This was the first time for her to ever give a speech in front of a large group. She selected the pictures that she wanted to show from our trip to the Ukraine and made a power point from them. Then she decided what was important or interesting to tell about each picture. Her focus was to make others aware of orphans who live around the world from us and what their world is like. Hopefully, it will bend someone's heart toward these kids even by word of mouth from someone there to someone else. God works in mysterious ways and He can even use a 12 year old to accomplish His purposes.

She was very nervous about the presentation and had second thoughts about doing it. She followed through knowing that obedience has its rewards. She said that she truly enjoyed talking to the group and wants to do this more....traveling to places and returning to tell others about the people who are in need there. She said that the presentation went very well, but what was most surprising was the true joy she felt from following through on something God called her to do that she needed to rely on Him for the strength and courage to get through. Even to the point that we tried to e-mail the presentation from home the week that I was home and it didn't work. I tried to e-mail the pictures to her from Chicago on my way back to the Ukraine and about 1/2 came through. I had to e-mail the rest from an internet cafe after we walked to find one with 4 out of 5 Ukrainians telling us there wasn't one in the plaza where we were looking. Finally, Lena and I found it and got the rest of the pictures sent to Trent. By this time, Brianne had already gone to my mom's house. Trent was trying to e-mail the rest of the pictures directly to the youth minister. They prayed that they would arrive on time and they did after Brianne and Meme had already arrived at the church. God's timing! Brianne thinks He was testing her faith. I told her it would be the first of many times and that would mean many blessings.