Romans 1:15

When putting together our video for deputation, we desired to emulate the video that the Apostle Paul made as much as possible.

In Paul's doctrinal treatise on Christianity, the Book of Romans, he expressed his great desire to preach to those that were in Italy. We share this same desire. As we are on deputation, we are presenting this video to the churches. We hope that in this video you will see the need for the Gospel to Italy, and also our heart's desire to serve God in that country.

So you will see that much like the missionary video the Apostle Paul put together... well, never mind.

Jeremiah 18:1-6

With great zeal we began making calls last week while trying to plan out the best way to go about raising support. We have worked hard to get all our materials together, and felt that we were in good shape to start our pre-field ministry. That same week our daughter Natalia (17 months) had a horrible incident in which she began having a seizure, fell to the ground and hit her head on our tile floor. Our little one followed this with two additional seizures the next day. Natalia has had other scary seizures before and each time we go through this God teaches us a lesson.

The illustrations that come with the potter and the wheel seem appropriate here. We are just clay that needs to be spun, pressed, tossed, formed and molded to be beautiful. Michael and I are realizing more and more each day how God is the Potter and is in complete control of His children. It is humbling to realize how completely helpless we are and how Almighty, All-powerful and magnificent Christ is.

Natalia had an CT and the tests came back negative. That is a fancy way of saying we still do not have answers as to what has caused her repeated seizures. The Lord knows and is in complete control. What a great thought to acknowledge that He is Sovereign and makes no mistakes.