Biting off more than we can chew
Four years ago, my wife and I started working together with some friends to support a school in Batam. It was exploratory, and I wrote then (see my blog entry here ) that we stood on one side of a door that God had led us to, and now we had to decide whether to walk through it, or past it. Well, here we are, in 2023, and thank God, we decided to walk through it. Each step along the way has been an exercise in biting off more than we could chew. At that first trip, almost the whole team had never been on an overseas mission. No one spoke the language. No one had any idea what help the school needed, or how to deliver it. We were completely unready, but we just went. We bit off more than we could chew, but the trip was great! Not because we were great, because we obviously weren't, but because God supplies His people when they go about His work. After one trip, we told ourselves, we are committed to this for the long term. And we told everyone about it, so they could hold us account