Set on Fire by Christ Alone!

I love this message below from John Piper!
 
You don't have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by a few great things. If you want your life to count, if you want the ripple effect of the pebbles you drop to become waves that reach the ends of the earth and roll on for centuries and into eternity, you don't have to have a high IQ or EQ; you don't have to have to have good looks or riches; you don't have to come from a fine family or a fine school. You have to know a few great, majestic, unchanging, obvious, simple, glorious things, and be set on fire by them.

Just a normal day in Rio....we left the house early to meet one of our partners, Juliana of Atuacao Voluntaria, in a community here in Rio. 

Juliana received a call en route telling us not to come because the BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) had arrived there and it would not be safe for us to go into the community to the church.  This community will soon be pacified.

God had a different plan for us today!  We were able to visit the local public health clinic where Atuacao Voluntaria has started a program reading books to the children of the community.  

We were then able to visit another of our partners to discuss how the community can join together to fight against the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents in tourism as soon Rio will host the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 olympic games.

We ended the day with an encouraging phone call with a young woman in the States who is praying for God's direction to serve Him overseas.  Our intent was to encourage her, but in the end it was us who were encouraged as we reflected in all that God is doing here in Rio!

Simple activities....a normal day......being available.....being flexible.....being led by the Holy Spirit....multiplication.....lives impacted.....people encouraged.....the body-of-Christ working together....WE LOVE OUR WORK HERE IN RIO!

Boasting in the cross of Jesus alone,

Diane and Jeff

Galatians 6:14, "But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world."