Funny story...very true! Yesterday (Thursday) I went to the warehouse to work with a team of ladies helping with the Tamar center. As we would be going out to the pier later that evening I need to get the truck filled with boxes. If your lucky and go early enough some of the warehouse staff will fill the truck for you, and as I was there early, I was excited that I would not be filling the truck myself! I had talked to one of the staff and asked if he needed me to move the truck to the warehouse or if he just wanted to do it. He stated he could do it so I handed him the keys. He worked on some other stuff and I went back to helping with packets. A short while later he went out to the truck.... within a few minutes he was back, but the truck hadn't moved. He came over and asked if I could move the truck for him. I complied and continued working on packets while he filled the truck. When he returned he asked me which foot you used to make the car go... why is this funny you may be asking.... see he has his own truck and motorcycle and drives quite regularly here...the difference and why he couldn't move the truck...it's an automatic :) I laugh when I think about it... He can drive a standard and a motorcycle and the vehicle that we would think the easiest of them all and automatic stumped him!

On a more serious note: Please be praying for us this next week. Wednesday morning in particular. I know in the past I have talked about attending a mid week service at UCM (United Christian Ministries) and that we gather to pray for different ministries. Each week is lead by a different ministry in the city. This week, it's SCPT's turn. I have volunteered, I think, to share. God has really laid it on my heart as of lately that we don't take prayer seriously enough. I mean over here it's easy to get really into prayer and to focus on it and to live in it, but even then I don't think we think big enough. I don't think we take God out of our box. An example... during the Chinese New Year we were handing out a certain number of boxes most nights...well I thought hey pray for more...but even when I was I was thinking to myself... pray a realistic number...really?!? Does God want us to be "realistic" and think in human terms or does He want us to think big...think about what HE can do? I was challenged as the day that I prayed for a specific number and that's what we did. A slightly larger number then before, but it wasn't a BIG number... did I limit what I thought God could do to what I thought were human expectations. In His word He tells us we do not have because we do not ask, and we do not ask believing. I've been really convicted about that lately and am trying to pray big, in a God size way, no boxes and then really really believe He CAN and WILL do big things. I mean He's GOD! Don't we believe He can heal the sick, cause the blind to see, change the hard hearts of people? Or do we only believe He could do that in Bible times? All I know is that I hope to share about the amazing power of prayer and what God CAN and WANTS to do...if only we will ask and believe. Please pray that God gives me the words to speak and moves in the hearts of the people. After I share we will be praying for the ministries and I'm going to challenge them to think God sized... I mean hello God used Gideon and 300 men to defeat an army, He doesn't need us to be realistic, He wants us to have faith and ask!