A word from Wendy...

I've been helping with the high school youth group for a couple years now. When we started talking about a mission trip to Africa, I really felt called by God to go. I've never really had any desire to do international missions but at that moment, I really wanted nothing more than to go to Africa and care for the orphans.
In the meantime, God was leading my life in another way. My husband and I felt God was leading us to adopt a child. We knew the process could take several months and even years, so we didn't really think it would ever conflict with the trip to Africa.
God's perfect timing doesn't always make sense and I have found that to be extremely true now. Just a few short weeks after being approved to adopt a child, we found ourselves being selected by a mother to adopt her little guy. We were thrilled and then stopped long enough to realize that he would be born while I would be in Africa. After many, many prayers and thoughtful deliberaton, we decided that God brought the Africa trip into my life first for a reason and that I shouldn't ignore His call. It won't be easy to be so far away when he's born, but I know that he will be in good care. And a few short days without me won't begin to compare to the life of the orphans in Bulembu who have no parents at all.
So, while the team is counting down the days until we leave for Africa, I'm also counting down the days until I become a mom!