Hope for Home, Liberia: Mission Update 3-31-20

THE COVID 19 VIRUS IS IN LIBERIA:
The Covid 19 virus is now in Liberia. Due to government restrictions, our lives have drastically slowed down. I will share more about this in an upcoming post. Our family has been studying 1 Corinthians 13 during our family devotions. The verse that stuck out the most to me was verse 7. It says that love “always hopes.” What does it mean to always hope? Hope sees the best in another person and in life’s circumstances. For example, my love for my wife should make me see the best in her and believe the best in her intentions. In the same way that love is a choice, I believe hope is also a choice. During times of crisis, we must choose to hope. We choose to see the best in our circumstances because we know that God is in control! Faith and hope go hand in hand.

If you are reading this update while sick, please know that many people are praying for you. Here is a picture our artist painted to encourage Liberians to put their hope in Jesus while sick. I pray that it encourages you as well!

JOHN’S FASCINATION WITH JESUS!
John is one of our special needs children at His Safe Haven Village. Several times each day, John visits this mural of Jesus. Watch John interact with Jesus! Let us be like John. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus!

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Romans 5:3-5

3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Matthew 6:25-33

“25Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

“28 And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”