Encouraging Times.

Thank you to everyone who has texted, emailed, called, or messaged me words of encouragement and scripture. I am grateful beyond words for your support, and belief in what God is doing in my heart.

The past week has been a roller coaster. Even though I'm still dealing with homesickness (for lack of better word) and things of that sort, now when confronted with anxiety my answer is Christ. Work does a pretty good job of keeping me busy (more on that below) but the past few days I have gotten this crazy feeling on my way home from work. I catch my self thinking about how crazy it is that I landed in the middle of nowhere, Topeka, Kansas, to get to the center of God's will for my life and to grow spiritually. It is a satisfying feeling to miss your friends, but turn to Christ and know you are exactly where you are supposed to be. If I had chosen not to come to Kansas, I do not know if I would be feeling the same satisfaction in my heart.

Work has been busy, we are expanding into more office space behind our current office space, so the past few weeks have been filled with painting, cleaning, and restoring the back office space as well as learning how to successfully maintain the aquaponics facility under TMP's care. I am loving getting to work with a ministry like TMP where I can be used to help lighten the load of the full time staff so they can focus on 'saving the world' as I like to tease them about. God as blessed me with an opportunity to gain hands-on experience, and to grow closer to him during this time, and I can rest in the goodness of His plan for my life.

In other news: MY MOM SENT ME A CARE PACKAGE AND IM SO EXCITED I HAD TO TYPE IN ALL CAPS. It should arrive on Saturday, right around the time I start crying from excitement.

I am leading a small group through Fellowship Bible Church of 11th grade boys, and we had our first meeting last night! I have 4 killer 16-17 year olds that I will get to see God work through and change right before my eyes. PLEASE pray that my ministry to them is effective, and that they would hunger and thirst for God, and to know him. I am very encouraged by our first meeting, we ended up laughing and sharing some of our favorite things with each other nearly the entire night. I am looking forward to God moving in them during the course of the school year.

Thanks again for your continued prayers and support, I have been very encouraged by all of you. Please keep emailing, texting, calling, or messaging me on Facebook if you have questions or something that you think would encourage me! God bless.

John3:30
HE must increase, I must decrease.

-Daniel