MBC has decided not to support me in regular financial giving but rather a small one-off sum as given to other short-termers. This was a setback and sent my thoughts spiralling downwards at first. But, a passage we studied recently has helped me come to terms with this development (because that's what it really is).
In Acts 16:6-10, Paul and his companions are in a similar situation of wanting to go on and preach the gospel and face the question of where and to who? God is leading them only one step at a time with several 'No's' until Paul finally receives a vision of a man calling him to Macedonia. I have come to see that I can, like Paul and the others, walk between my own Asia and Bithynia. And try to take the 'No's' not as negative but as guidance from God, knowing that I will reach my own Troas where the people, places and times that He is calling me to reach out to will become clear.
And so, I am realising the many opportunities 'or possible 'Yes's' that this decision has opened up for me, as I look into the ways I can support myself in South Africa and still maintain contact and work with Living Hope. I am going to carry on stepping out confidently in faith looking for God to close the wrong doors and open the right ones, as He is showing me He is already doing.
