What a week! After the flurry of opening weekend of pheasant season, I foolishly thought things would slow down a little. While the number of people here is fewer, we've been kept busier. Since we're dealing with smaller groups, Tim and I are doing the cooking, guiding, and hosting for each pheasant hunt group, and we've had people staying in the Prairie House (a cottage used for personal retreats and very small groups) all week, too.
We interact with these smaller groups in a different way--it's like they become part of our family as we spend the day with them, eat with them, and sit back from the dinner table just chatting. Last night our guests from the Prairie House joined our hunters and we all enjoyed a time of fellowship. After dinner, the lone female guest and I carried the dishes to the back kitchen while the hunters and the other guest talked with Tim. Vonda and I discovered many commonalities (we're both preacher's kids, interested in design, music teachers) and were able to encourage each other. As we returned to the dining area, Tim told me that he and Lloyd (Vonda's husband) had discovered a common link, someone we all know from western Nebraska.
Later, as Tim and I finished up the dishes, I told Tim, this evening makes me think of a song, "The Family of God". He laughed and then said, "That's the song Vonda was playing on the organ in the chapel when I gave them a tour."
God brings so many different people to this ministry in rural Kansas. We encourage and strengthen, but often finds that God uses them in our lives to encourage and strengthen us. And within the community of believers are so many connections! Thank you for your prayers and support as we serve the body of Christ in northwest Kansas!
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