Catchin' Up with the Bennetts: August 2007

Obviously summer was too busy to BLOG, so now that we are back and life has calmed down again... here we go again!

School started on Wednesday, and God is again showing us that He is the one who initiates world evangelization.

Romans 10:14-15, 17

"How are they to call on one they have not believed in? And how are they to believe in one they have not heard of? And how are they to hear without someone preaching to them? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How timely is the arrival of those who proclaim the good news." "Consequently faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the preached word of Christ."

God has given the message (the Gospel) to be preached and He has commanded us to "go into all the world".

A qoute from our Romans class notes:

"It is His gospel that He promised beforehand in His scriptures that He inspired through His prophets that He had chosen to speak His message - it is the gospel of His Son. And it is God who is reaching out to the world with His gospel."

We are so glad to be able to spend so much time in studying God's word. A special thanks to all who have helped us to get here and to all who are continually praying for and supporting us while we are here.

Our home church, North Baptist Church, treated us so well this past summer, what a blessing it was to be able to go home and feel so loved and be so blessed.

On another note... as most of you know we moved from our "white house" (as Derek likes to call it) off campus, to an apartment in the school building. We are LOVING being so close to all the students and the "action". We had the awesome opportunity to get to know some of them better while we attended 10 days of intense training mixed with some down time at the beach, learning a new way to play ping pong, and star gazing. Derek has made some friends with the men in the dorms, he was spotted helping someone buff the hallway yesterday! The girls are getting to know the women here as well, they love going to visit and came home with some treasures from some of them. The students here are great and we are privileged to be learning along side them!!

here are some pics of the last couple weeks!!