Yesterday was amazingly relaxing. I created a new sanctuary. A small room in the back of the Koinonia Thrift Store. The Thrift Store is a new ministry we started this semester. Apparently I'm the one who runs it. Manager, CEO? Whatever. So I'm one of the few who has a key to the place. It's super ghetto, but we're getting everything together real nice.

Back to the sanctuary I created. The Thrift Store has a back room that is all dark and dingy, the floor is really sloped to the left, no real light, etc. I set up a really ghetto card table pushed up against the wall to compensate for it's wobbles. I found a lamp in the thrift store with no lamp shade that works nicely. And voilá! My own quiet, cool (temperature wise), study area. I got so much work done in there. If I hadn't made a place like that I think I might have gone insane. It's hard for me to get everything finished with people around me all day. I love my Thrift Store job.

( Now on to the storm. )

The Philippines was so wonderful. Thank all of you who were praying for us, everything come together incredibly. The entire trip was full of great ministry, fellowship, good times, and not as good times, but overall God was in it all. And because of that everything was perfect.
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