Yesterday we received a tour of Samaritan's Purse. It was so wonderful to see the nuts and bolts behind the operation that has done so much for us. Unfortunately, there were no Franklin Graham sightings on our tour :-), but we have felt so loved and supported by every one of the staff members that we have encountered. Every morning devotions for the entire organization in Boone are held in the cafeteria. At the end of the devotions all of the employees break up into groups of two or three and prayer for different staff members all over the world. It is so incredible to know that we will have people back here in North Carolina that may not even know us, praying for us on a consistent basis.
One of the things that has struck me is how all encompassing being an overseas missionary will become. Not only will we be doctor/IT, we will learn to be Martha Stewart-cooking everything from scratch, master handyman because there isn't anyone else to fix things when they break, students of a new language, an expert in foreign current and voltage for our electronics, scientific inventor as we trouble shoot medical equipment in the face of limited supplies, cultural anthropologists as we work to assimilate into a new culture, local Bible experts, family to the other missionaries on our team, writers through blogs and newsletters that get published, and business managers as we work to raise support and manage our overhead and expenditures. Whew...it becomes a lot to keep track of!
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