For those of you that do not know, I don’t have a full time job. I have had many people assume that I am full-time staff at the church I attend because of the amount of time that I “get to” spend there by God’s grace. For most of my life, more than forty years, I have been involved in the automotive industry as a mechanic and/or service manager. Recently, God has provided for my family in many other different ways. I like to find stuff, fix it, and sell it. I even collect metal and aluminum cans for recycling. Pretty much anything I can do to make a dollar or two, here or there, so that I can fulfill the ministry that I believe God has given me in my own home, where we have four children with very unique special needs. Due to these needs we have quite a few therapy workers and respite providers coming into our home that we have been able to minister to in the name of Jesus. For the most part, very few have been Christian if any, but we have been blessed to be able to plant seeds of eternal life into the lives of many of them. Today is a day for another mission trip journey for me. I have a job interview to be able to do Attendant Care for my two younger grandchildren who are on the Autism Spectrum. In other words, I have the opportunity to get paid to work a few hours a week for what I have been doing for years for free, and in this season of life I count every penny as valuable. Prayer would be appreciated, because even though this will be a great blessing to help provide, there is training involved that will be a little time consuming, to which I barely have time to take care of all that I feel led to do. I am encouraged by certain verses such as is written in *Galatians 6:9 And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint.* The words of Charles Spurgeon inspire me when he said, “If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not shrivel you down to be a king.” God has truly blessed me in being able to do what I “get” to do in ministering for the kingdom in a missionary lifestyle in the very city I live. Every day I experience certain things that give me a greater Faith, more Love, and enduring Hope. To all my friends who love, care for, pray over, and help support my family in the various ways that you do, thank you, you have no idea how much it means to me. Grace and peace my beloved.
