Millers In Africa

Some of you may be wondering what came from our fundraiser on July 10th. We were overwhelmed with blessings. So many people came to support us. We sold several t-shirts and bracelets, and lots of food! We also auctioned of a lot off great stuff. We had a 50/50 raffle and trivia event with the winners of the prizes generously donating the funds they won back to our mission work. When we held the fundraiser we had a lofty goal of raising $12K to ship our container a crossed the Atlantic to our home in Sierra Leone.  The fundraiser brought in a grand total of $7,150. We are simply blown away! God moved mountains. We want to extend a thank you to everyone who came out, or sent in money to help us. The love you all showed us is something we can’t grasp, much less find the words for. We are confident we will come up with the rest of the finances needed in Gods perfect timing.

Also, if you would like to buy a t-shirt or a bracelet, we will post a link to them soon. All the sales will go towards sending our container to Africa. Thank you so much!

Some of you may also be wondering where we are with the move now that Ebola has come to Sierra Leone. First, we ask that you please be in prayer for our wonderful friends a crossed Sierra Leone and Liberia as well as for those in Guinea. We are praying for this horrible disease to be eradicated as soon as possible. With that being said, we know how blessed we are to still be here fundraising. We serve a big God who can do anything. He could have raised the money needed already if it were in His will. We feel as though God  is keeping us here now for our safety and health. When we come up with the funds needed to move we will go in faith. We are trusting His plans and timing. He has not led us wrong yet, and we serve a Big God who reminds us to fear not. It is human to fear sickness and death, war, and tragedy. They are scary things to be faced with. However, we know that fear is not something that comes from God. Isaiah 41:10 says “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous hand”. We do not want to value anything in this world, including the gift of life, more than we value God and His plans for our life. He called us to Sierra Leone and He knows the plans He has for us more than we ever could. We will continue to pray for safety and protection of those we love, and for Gods perfect timing in sending our family.

We thank you all for pouring into our family through prayers, love, financial gifts, and friendships. We are so blessed by you. We thank God when we think of you. We ask the you will continue to pray for God timing over our family and that you will pray for the people in West Africa suffering from this horrible disease. Thank you all for sticking with our family and being part of this awesome journey we are on. God is so awesome. May He bless you immensely!

The chaos started early.  Our very good friend Amy Denny, has some pretty awesome connections.  Today she sent out a press release to several different organizations.  One of them being a local television news channel, WAND channel 17.  We got a call from an anchor form WAND and we were told that they wanted to interview us!  So, about 30 minutes later we were knee deep in an interview!  The anchor’s name was Ed Cross and he was an amazing, Godly man.  We were able to pray with him and get to know him a bit too!  It was totally a God thing.  Sarah and I were interviewed about all we were planning on doing in Sierra Leone.  WE WERE SO NERVOUS but we really feel that God gave us the words to say and we hope we can be an inspiration to others.  God has called us so we will answer that call!  Thank you all for your support and love!

You can watch the 6:00 news here where we are highlighted in the beginning!

This link is a Web Exclusive from them here.

We are excited beyond words and cannot wait to get there!  Please don’t forget about our fundraiser on July 11th!!

God bless you and keep you safe!

Ty and Sarah

I am so excited to be writing this blog post!

I must admit I am also embarrassed. In February we challenged you all to come along side us and support us in shipping our container and here we are in June and I have not managed to update you guys! We are slackers. Truthfully we have been really busy with some exciting things!

First, to sum up our February, we did not get the tax return we anticipated. Our new donor receiving status took a large chunk out of the refund we expected and we only got back seven hundred versus the seven thousand we had hoped for. BUT, do not fret. God is so amazing and He moved in huge ways! We did gain some wonderful new donors through that post and we received a large one time gift anonymously that paid for all of the solar equipment we had yet to purchase. The awesome God we serve never fails us. In a year of getting donations, we have been able to pay for $15,000 in solar equipment, visit Sierra Leone and secure some needs like doctors, purchase our very own container to ship everything in, and place a years rent on our home in Sierra Leone!

Speaking of which, do you all wanna see our home?! 

Here it is!!  Its wonderful inside and out!!

We have never been so close to leaving! The very last purchases we have are to ship our container from our home in America over the Atlantic to the port in Freetown, Sierra Leone. This trip will cost $6,500. After it arrives in port, we need to then send it to our backyard of our new house in Waterloo Village, Sierra Leone. Shockingly (and this is typical for Africa so maybe not so shockingly) it costs another $6,000 for that transport.  Once this happens we are paying for vaccinations and plane tickets and we will be in our new home! Its amazing how far God has brought our family.

We still need $800 more in monthly gifts, but we are going to go with or without all the funding we require because God provides. He has done it so many times.

We were a little discouraged at first we didn’t meet the goal we set out to achieve in February. The thing is, more and more, we know that all things are a blessing. Wether we see them for a praise or not at the time its happening, its truly for our own good. We know there is a reason we are still here. We have been able to see God moving in all things. The reality is that to make a giant life changing move to another continent you need to be able to trust God. We can say we trust Him, but there is often a back up plan or a just in case scenario preplanned by ourselves. We don’t have that. Its all in, no turning back, complete reliance on Christ. We wouldn’t be able to do this if He hadn’t brought us through some insanely difficult situations with divine goodness that comes only from Him. So, seeing as how God knows best, better than we ever could, we are content to be exactly where God has placed us.

More exciting news is that we are no longer waiting for the next step. We had an amazing friend of ours ask what was keeping us here. When we explained it was $12,000 to ship our possessions, she prayed and thought it over. Then God told her to help us have a fundraiser. In fact, God told her it will be easy. God is so awesome to intervene on our behalf in other peoples thoughts and lives.

The fundraiser is Friday, July 11th at 5pm here in our hometown of Athens. It will be in the park building and we are selling some great food, having an auction with some amazing donated items from overwhelmingly  generous people, and a trivia contest with a cash prize. We want everyone to come, including you if you can!  click here to find out more!

We fully trust God to do exactly what He wills for our life, and we don’t want anything outside of His perfect plan. When God says He will provide, we know He will. This is an extraordinary time in our lives. We are waiting to go.  In the meantime we are still going to serve, and bless as many people as possible, and to praise God because He never stops working in us and for us and through us.

Please be in prayer over our fundraiser, and for all the people who will come. Pray for Gods will in our lives. We praise God for you and your love for our family! We will update in July and tell you our good news 🙂

February is a huge month for us.  We are hoping to be able to ship our container to Sierra Leone by the 28th.  This is where we are praying that you will help.  With our tax return and what we have saved, we will likely have half of the cost made up.  We are putting out a challenge for finical help to all of our current donors and to everyone who has yet to donate.  We are asking each of you to pray for us and to pray about giving a one time gift or partnering with us monthly.  We have watched God do completely insane things in the past and we are going to watch Him work through this too.  We will be sending letters out to several families that we think would support us if we just asked them.  We will also be contacting several churches to ask them to help as well.

If you are reading this and you feel something stirring inside, please pray about donating.  God works through people like you to help people like us and together we can literally change the world, one person at a time.

So here is the financial breakdown:

Cost of shipping our container- $14,000 (I really think we will have about half that.)

Cost to make up- $7000

Amount needed per day over 28 days: $250

Once we ship the container, we will leave 3 months after the shipping date.  It takes a minimum of 6 weeks for our container to reach Africa and we want to make sure that our belongings get there and can be delivered before we arrive.  All that being said, our prayer is to arrive in Sierra Leone in May.

God is very good to us and we have faith that He will use you to allow us to get to Africa to start our ministry there.  If you have any questions about what we will be doing there or about other ways you could help; please feel free to email us at millersinafrica@gmail.com and we will get back to you as soon as we possibly can.

Thank you all so much for your time reading this and for loving our family.

God bless you and yours,

The Millers

I have been understandably asked several times lately when our big move will take place. The goal was to be gone September 30th.

The truth is: That is not a possibility anymore, much to our disappointment. We’ve really had to trust God and His perfect timing. We know we’re called to Sierra Leone, and there is an end in sight. We know we are closer and closer every day. But for now we are still here… in our comfy lives… waiting… some days, not so patiently.

One thing we have been very careful about is not overtly discussing the financial needs we have. We have been careful to not do Gods job for Him. Ty once read an amazing story about a missionary named George Muller, who was called by God to care for orphans. Muller willingly submitted to the calling, but decided to completely rely on God for everything.  He never asked ANYONE for funds. He relied on God to convict people to give.  George simply made the needs known and let God work. In the years he spent overseeing Gods orphanage, he helped thousands upon thousands of children. There were several times when he saw an empty cupboard and hungry children. So he kneeled in fervent prayer. And, several times there was a knock on the door from a helping group of Gods people, carrying loads of food.

God compells His people to help.

So, we are taking God at His words to Abram, that if we follow and trust Him to wherever He leads, we will be richly blessed.

Some of you reading this may feel compelled to give. Others to pray. I ask that you will respond to that feeling.

I will make our needs known and leave it with that.

In order to move in 3 months from now we need the following things:

A shipping container sent with our belongings. This will carry our furniture, food, medical supplies, solar panels, generators, and such means to have electricity, clean water, and familiar things for our boys. This will cost around $14,000.

Plane tickets for our family of 5 to make it to the west coast of Africa, our home. This will cost about $5,000.

Money for vaccines, passports and visas for our three sons. This will cost around $3,500.

In addition to these up front costs we have been praying for monthly donors so we can live as unpaid missionaries. We are not working for anyone therefore there is no paycheck involved, but willing people who believe in sharing the Gospel to all people can help us make ends meet. To be able to pay rent, have food for our family, money for medical needs that arise and funds to bless the people of Sierra Leone in the name of Jesus, we have an estimated need of around $4,000 a month.

We want to be completely transparent with those who give. I can tell you now we have a handful of amazing, loving donors who give to us without hesitation. They came to us, asked to help, and have been an amazing blessing to us. We have been saving the money we are given to help us go. We are currently 25% funded because of their generosity. Today, we have $4,393 in our savings because of your kindness. Thank you sincerely to you who donate and pray. We are blessed immeasurably by you!

To leave, we must first send the shipping container. That will take 3 months to arrive. Then we will buy the plane tickets and other things.

I have shared the need. I trust God to lead His people to help. We are excited to go and serve in Africa. We know we will get there. We are willing to go without being fully funded. We won’t wait idly by because we don’t have every need met. Thats not worth any persons potential salvation.

So, are you being called to help? Any gift is a blessing. A dollar a day, $30 a month? A one time gift of $20? A promise to pray every day for God to use us in His way?

We need Gods people to come forward and help. We are thankful and we are praising God for all of you who took the time to read this and made aware of our needs.

I will end this post with this: written down, the amounts seem overwhelming. It seems like an impossible feat. However, with God all things are possible. Many hands make light work, and many believers supporting God’s mission work through us can do great things.

God, we ask for Your will alone. We ask for You to help us through Your people.

To our readers, we love you and we are praying for you!

Recently… Ok, a month ago, Ty and I traveled to Sierra Leone to tie up some loose ends. And essentially allow me to see where I had committed to move our family for the next 6 years.

 It was nice for me, as a mom, to see all these things before we make our big move because I have my hesitations and I have my fears. I knew in my heart that God called our family to Africa to serve His people, but its fair to say that I didn’t want it to be true. I had come so far in testing God, which I know is wrong, and He always showed me what I needed to see. Every time I challenged His plan for us, He showed me that this is His will. If you missed those signs God gave me, they’re about 2 posts back ;).

 The thing is, God knows me. I mean, better than I think He does. God knows that I need to physically see with my eyes what He is telling me. Im a Thomas through and through. And when we arrived in Africa it was every bit of “overwhelming”, and then some. It’s dirty, and incomprehensibly poor. There are so many shocking things you experience, and I was unprepared. I had seen the pictures, and heard the stories more than most people do in a lifetime. But nothing can prepare you for actually having Sierra Leone bombard all 5 of your senses. I was faced with the reality that these people actually have nothing.  And while my heart was immediately broken for them, I couldn’t stop thinking about my 3 beautiful boys. And how I was glad they weren’t with me for the very first time in my life.

 As I saw the garbage laid along the roads, like grass covers the dirt in America, I felt a sick knot in my stomach and a strong desire to run from the images before me. When we drove along the winding road to the village I saw small children naked; or wearing clothes we would deem as rags standing outside their tiny corrugated metal homes. I saw topless women outside their houses bathing from a bucket and men shuffling along the road to get to what I assume would be work. I saw women carrying heavy baskets of items to sell on top of their heads, and I saw all types of people standing alongside the road going to the “bathroom”. 

 At the guest house we stayed in, I took a bath in a room that looked as though it had never been cleaned, with a bucket of water scooped from a trash can. I used the commode with extra care not to lower myself any closer than necessary and “flushed” with by pouring a bowl of water down it. I slept on a mattress laid upon sand, with a net over my body to stop malaria-carrying mosquitos from biting me. 

 None of this was too much for me. None of it was really even all that upsetting… until I considered my sons doing it. That thought made heart break and the pit of my stomach drop. I thought they deserved more. I was angry at my husband for thinking this was the right thing for our whole family. If we were just a married couple with no kids, this would be great. But we aren’t.  A long way from it too.

 Now, I need to express that I am sharing the shocking things, the most un-American things with you. The whole story is that there is so much beauty too.  There are mountains and ocean and it takes your breath away. However that is nothing compared to the people. 

 The people can take your broken, overwhelmed heart and piece it back into something better than it ever was before. The women in the church sing louder, and stronger, and more powerfully than any sound I have heard in my life. They literally shout with joy to the Lord. The children giggle and squirm and crane their tiny necks to get a better look at your white skin. The beautiful brown eyes and giant white smiles make you pray to have another opportunity to see again.  All the elderly women have strong proud faces as they walk the many miles along the roadside, and you know they have amazing stories to share.  Every man is thin but muscular, and they don’t acknowledge your presence as they tap away at the rock pile in front of them; making boulders to gravel bit by bit. Every person in the village is connected. They live among one another, laugh together, talk each day, and a small few pray to Jesus together. 

 While first considering missions in a third world country,  you don’t wake up and think “Africa for 6 years sounds like fun. Lets do that”. In fact, if you’re like me, you think “ how can I get God to change His mind about sending me there”. But after you meet those people, those men and women, and oh my goodness… those KIDS… you are changed forever. Those people are the reason I want to go.  And if God tells you to go serve them, by golly, you HAVE to. When they understand real need, like… “my son needs to eat tomorrow or he wont survive” and “I need to get the malaria medication for my sick father or he is going to die” and “I need to work at pounding my rice all day tomorrow so my family can eat” you have an overwhelming realization that you haven’t had a sincere need a day in your life. Here, we complain that we need to get to Walmart cause we have nothing to eat. The sad reality is our barest cupboard days are a feast to most people in Brigitte Village.

 I don’t feel pity for them. I have nothing but respect and admiration. I don’t want to change their culture or treat them like my personal charity case. I only want to give them Hope. The hope that Christ alone can give. The hope that extends beyond every hurt, need, want, loss, and pain in this world. Its a hope that no matter what comes, when I am His, nothing else can compare. I want to LOVE them the way He does. The way He loves us all, and what a privilege it is to be called to share His love to those who don’t yet know it. 

 Now, I know I painted a somewhat harsh picture of the things in Sierra Leone that make me want to run far away from it, but God provides. And boy did He ever. I began the trip seeing the most shocking parts. How can you not be shocked, honestly… The thing is, God knows me. He knows my desire to protect our boys and give them the best. While I am busy battling with my heart that knows this place is home, and with my flesh that wants electricity and running water, He was waiting to show me that He will provide what I need AND what I want.

 We met the doctor and pharmacist who will be able to provide basic medical needs for our boys, and us. We were able to go to a grocery store that had hotdogs and even ice cream, for $20 a pint…so we wont have ice cream, but hey, its there. We were able to see Rick and Paula’s home with running water, electricity, and even internet. There were family pictures decorating the walls, a dining room for family meals. A bedroom for their girls with toys and games and bunk beds. There was a nice back yard and a welcoming porch and a fridge with cold Cokes. We were able to experience life in Africa for the people we will be serving, good, bad, and otherwise. and at the end of he day we were able to relax on a couch with a fan blowing near by and text our boys 🙂 and God provided.

 So I am ready, and excited, to move there. I see it in my dreams and when I close my eyes tightly. I can not leave and never return. After being there and feeling God saying “follow me”, nothing here in America will satisfy. Its simply not good enough. I NEED to go serve His people in Sierra Leone. I will give up some of those fleshly wants and in return, God will provide. Matthew 6:33 says “ Instead, be concerned above everything else with the kingdom of God and with what He requires of you, and He will provide you with all these other things.” Thats an amazing promise. One that I will cling to.

On April 5th through the 10th, Sarah and I will be taking a trip to Sierra Leone.  We are hoping to Iron out some important details before we move there in 7 months.  Wow, that sounds crazy!  So, please keep us in your prayers as we kick this thing in gear!  Thank you all!

God bless you and yours,

Ty & Sarah

Our blog is usually about our move to Africa.  This post deals with Africa, but its not about our family 🙂

I am so behind on putting this post out, but late is better than never, right? 😉

As you might remember, I hope, cause that was a ways back, I wrote about Sierra Leone, and also about the calling for us all to become a disciple wherever we are. I wrote about the needs of the people in Sierra Leone and how Ty and I are called to go and help them. I had also promised to follow up with the way we came to realize this specific calling for our family, what we’re praying to accomplish, and how you, yeah you!, can help us 🙂

In a perfect, God led way, Ty last wrote about Gods not so subtle signs. Now, I can assure you all we didn’t compare notes before hand. How perfect God led Ty to write what he had though.

When we were called to Sierra Leone, Africa, becoming missionaries in another country was far from our radar. I stress another country because we were looking to be missionaries. We were just searching closer to our own back yard. Ty and I had both been praying and seeking how we could use our God given talents to bless others and show the love of The Lord. Ty, being a carpenter and a lover of helping people, had been searching for people who needed home repairs badly but couldn’t provide the means to do them. He would often obsess over this project and pray daily for God to show him the needs. At the same time, I was discussing a crisis-pregnancy center of sorts, with a slant towards adoption and a focus on Jesus, with my good friend Ginger. Each of us willing and wanting, without the sureness of how to start. Mostly, ultimately, we were praying sincerely for God’s will to be done in us.

Now last year, about October 2011, our good friend Chance, went on a mission trip with our church, Athens Christian Church, to Sierra Leone. They were putting on a VBS for the kids in the villages, and paying a visit to Rick and Paula Miller, the family our church supports who are living there today. (you can find more information about this awesome family in our homepage of our blog) When Chance returned he was changed forever. We met with he and Ginger one afternoon shortly after his return to spend a fall day pumpkin picking. We were carrying on our conversations when Chance asked Ty “hey, I have a question for you. What would you do if I told you I found a way for you to use your carpentry skills to help others?” and of course Ty said “That would be amazing!” Then Chance said “What about a way for your wife to go and help kids and moms?” Ty replied “Wow, that would be the best!” and then came “What if I told you it was in Africa?”. OK, so here’s where we slam on our brakes and switch our excitement to a “No way, are you nuts? Us in Africa? That’s hilarious! What on earth would we do in Africa?” 

And thus, a seed is planted. We spent a good amount of time that day asking questions about our roles, about the culture and how in no way this would be a possibility. Excuses and many a “…but” came pouring into our minds. But you know what? God is bigger than any self doubt, fear, excuse, or selfish reason we could ever compose. As the time went on, Ty became more willing and more called. I became apprehensive and scared. We talked about the good, the bad, and the ugly. We have a son with special needs. We have no money. We’d have to live among people with diseases. We’d miss our family. What if something horrible happened?

One day I was particularly overwhelmed with the idea and was trying to figure out a way to convince Ty why God doesn’t want us in Africa. I was invited out with a group of friends for a bachelorette party to see a band in a country western themed bar. I would have no chance of feeling the overwhelming pull to say yes to this new calling and the inner struggle I was experiencing to say NO that night. I could take a break from the big decisions and just to listen to some terrible music. Right? While we were out laughing and having a good time I was still feeling this nagging in my heart that I was saying No to my Lord. I took a trip to the bathroom and there in this stall of this country western bar was a GIANT, Boldly worded poster saying “Volunteer In Africa”. Are you kidding me?! I took a picture, in this bar and sent it to my husband who was at this point very sure that no doubt was bigger than Gods call. He of course, thoroughly enjoyed this display and my frustration at the inability to escape the tugging of God on my heart. I cried and said “ok God, you win”. IF only I was sincere. So yet again I found myself struggling with this inner desire to stay in my comfort zone and far from Africa. On a rough night that was sleepless, before a big doctors appointment for our son Sullivan, I was thinking to myself  “God can’t expect us to take this boy to Africa. He has so many struggles to fight here. I am not taking him there. Nope. It’s not meant to be. So, in an effort to gain more clarity, and to have some more ammunition in this decision Ty and I were mulling, I opened my devotional, looking for something bold and biblical to back me up. In that perfect, God planned moment, I opened to a page titled “out of our comfort zone”. I read about a woman who was currently in another country in a hut with other women and their babies, preaching the Gospel. She wrote about how we should get out of our comfort zones, be willing to go where God calls us, and to love others and Christ loves us. God 2: Sarah 0. I was beginning to see that God was after me more determined than I gave Him credit for, and that He has a plan for me. Bigger and better than my own. Thank YOU God for loving me enough to stay on me. 

At the end of November 2011, Tyler, Chance, and Ginger (my good friend and Chances wife) went to Sierra Leone. I stayed behind, unwilling to leave our boys and to tend to Sullivan who has feeding struggles as well. During the time Ty was away, I have never missed him so badly in my life. I cried a lot and was sure that if he is called so are we. I can’t be apart from him. As God is sooo good, during the time Ty was away, Sullivan made an amazing turn in his struggles. At the time he was mostly fed by G-tube and rarely was able to drink any good amount. The day Ty left for Africa, Sully began drinking entire feedings orally, and not using his G-tube at all. Hows that for confirmation! Each day Sully improves and while he will continue to have mental and developmental delays, he will be as God wills. I couldn’t ask for more than that! 

When Ty came home he was forever changed as well. Seeing, is life altering. He knew that there was no way we could stay here and live our lives knowing that we could be doing so much more to further God’s Kingdom somewhere else. 

So, what on earth will we do in Africa? Rick and Paula Miller are doing amazing things, but as the saying goes “the work is great, but the workers are few”. They have amazing, God led plans for helping the people of Sierra Leone. Bringing the word of Christ to this Muslim centered country is the first and biggest goal. To do so, we need preachers. Men of God, equipped and ready, to go share the Hope of Jesus. They’re building a seminary school of sorts in the village of Brigitte with a focus on ministry and a background in trades so these ministers of can support themselves when they’re out leading their churches. As you can imagine, being the poorest country in the entire world, they can’t earn a living on leading a church like in the US. Tyler will be teaching carpentry classes to these men in training so they can earn a living. In this, he will prayerfully be able to teach these men valuable skills in their trades and also help better the community around them by using the needs of those in the village as projects. It’s an amazing opportunity. 

I will be able to fulfill my dreams of helping women and children too! I will be working with Children’s Redemption Orphanage Home, caring for the kids daily needs and showing them the Love of Jesus they’re already gaining as it’s a Christian based orphanage. I will also help teach English in the primary school to help the kids gain literacy. I will of course, be a teacher to my own children with home schooling and doing the daily duties of a stay at home mom as I have been privileged to do here each day. As a bigger, long term goal, I am praying for the opportunity to begin a women’s bible study with the women of the village and have the opportunity to help them with parenting, nursing, and basic sanitary care. I am so excited to fulfill this goal with my best friend Ginger.

Now, with all of these plans, I have to say our biggest, most important job will be spreading the word and the Love of Jesus to the people of Sierra Leone and ultimately Africa entirely! Its a big goal but not one that’s ever beyond His good and perfect plan. He can do anything, including sending this small town family to do His work in another part of the world. God has called us all to share the love of Jesus. As the disciples did after Jesus left this earth, the work is far from done. I am so excited and privileged to be a part of it. When we live like Christ, and we love others as He did, when we go out and meet a basic need for these people and expect nothing in return, they will see that we’re different and prayerfully, will want to know what it is. I want to stand out, not because of what I did, but because of who He is.

Now comes the part to where you can help. Perhaps the toughest part in all of this for Tyler and I. We need your support. We have to have the income to support our family while there, and to send us there to begin with. Its a hard thing, to ask others to financially commit to you. Yes, we believe in what we are called there for. We know its meant to be, and we know that God will send us. We also know God uses His children to fulfill His plans. So, I ask you, as a missionary in need of support, to stop and pray. To ask God if He wants you to help us. If you feel compelled to do so, will you? Through your support we can show Gods love to an entire country, perhaps continent, that never before knew it. We are part of a group called Ripe for Harvest. On our blog is a link to their site. Every donation you make is tax deductible and we will be held accountable for our funds. We will share our budget transparently so you know what you’re helping us with. I want to thank you for praying for us, for considering partnering with us in this mission, and for your time in reading our blog. If you can’t financially support us, we are so thankful for your prayers alone. God bless you all!

Today…was amazing.  Today…was a life changing day.  Today…was a day that the Lord showed me, an absolute nobody in the Kingdom, just how sovereign He really is.  Today we were given a definite sign that we are on the path that the Lord wants us to be on.  God let me catch a glimpse at how much he cares for those who try to follow him, I mean, really try.  My Creator, my Heavenly Father, The God who created the billions of stars and calls them all by name, came down and intervened in my life in a way only He could do.  I think I’m starting to get an idea of what was taking place in Isaiah 6:2-3…

“Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.  And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”

They were saying “Holy, Holy, Holy,” because that’s the only word that best describes the attributes of the God we serve.  “Holy” is the only word they needed, because its perfect… because He’s perfect.  God does NOTHING that isn’t perfect.  We could never understand the amazing universal plan He has or where we fit in it, but I promise you this:  

     If you give your life to him, if you ask for guidance for every second of every day, and submit to his leading, He will blow your mind.  He will humble you in ways you could never imagine.  He will make you feel so minuscule next to His  unfathomable greatness that you will only be able to weep and marvel at Him.  If you give up totally, He will completely destroy your old life, burn it in the fires only He could stoke, crush it into dust with power only He could command and blow it into the wind that only He controls.  Then, He will build you a new life in the City of Righteousness.  A new life containing only Him, a life that is only worth living when He alone is the focus.  When He is the center of your universe, you will be the center of His.  The life we live now is fleeting, its a mere blink in the eye of eternity.  Being a follower of Christ is far more than a life-choice or life-style.  It’s life itself…period.  Christ is life.  Apart from Christ you are only breathing to death.  If you haven’t made the choice to die to yourself and be risen again in Christ… I desperately urge you to.  If you have questions email me at millersinafrica@gmail.com, and I will do my absolute best to answer them or get you in contact with Godly people I trust to answer them.  If you already have, I encourage you to stay strong and remain vigilant, the Lord will see you through to the end.  Pray that the Lord give you his wisdom, and to make your heart, His heart.  God bless you all, and to quote Red Green, “I’m pullin’ for ya’, we’re all in this together.”