Mission business meetings

My desk

Does my desk always look like this? No, usually my desk is pretty organized and clean. However I have been getting ready for our quarterly missionary business meetings which will be held this week in Oaxaca. As country coordinator one of my responsibilities is to coordinate these meetings. At these business meetings a missionary from every unit/family sends a representative.

Tomorrow I have to go to the airport several times to pick up Covenant missionaries from Monterrey, Mexico and from Mexico City. We will begin our meetings tomorrow evening with a dinner for Covenanters in Mission--those people with Covenant backgrounds that are serving with another mission agency. We have quite a few of these people in Oaxaca and this get-together is enjoyed by all. It is always good to hear how God is working in the lives of all of our fellow missionaries in Mexico.

Our meetings start in earnest on Tuesday morning and we have 29 items on our agenda. This is a time when we all meet together to discuss and decide things that affect all of us at a country (Mexico) level. God is doing great things in Mexico and we have a lot to discuss.

Please be in prayer for us as we meet this week. Our task is to listen to God's voice as we make our decisions. What is God saying to us? I recently read a definition concerning discernment and obedience that I think applies to our meetings this week. "Discernment is knowing the difference and obedience is acting from the discernment that comes from the Holy Spirit"

Please pray that we keep God in the room as we go through our agenda items.