GlocalNet

This is the team that is in Hanoi.  Nikki’s travels to join the team were an adventure of sorts.  She landed in the middle of the worst floods in Hanoi in 30 years, but she made it. 

The team had planned on going to the mountains to do health and hygiene training, along with many other domains and work, but the area was flooded. As we have learned over and over again, working around the world, you have to be prepared to do whatever needs to be done.  So far, the team has been able to work with the orphanages and meet with business leaders.  God is good.  I’m so proud to be part of a church that wants to touch the world and make a difference.

Whenever I speak with the teams when they return from one of these trips, it’s amazing what I hear.  They come back changed and have grown to love the people and culture of this country which seemed so far away, so different, so foreign, from anything they had ever seen. 

This group has waded through knee deep water, and for some, waist high water.  They have learned the meaning of the word flexibility.  They have worked, prepared, saved and planned for this time in Vietnam, and God has opened different doors and provided new opportunities for them to be able to show His love.  Check out www.glocaltrips.org to read more about their experiences as they are happening. 

It’s really exciting to think:  Here I am in San Diego, today, meeting with Asian-American pastors who have a different slant on everything, and my wife is in Asia.  It’s just fun the way God makes things happen and to learn from the back and forth of life.

I want to challenge you, NorthWood Church, if you’ve not been on one of these trips, to seriously pray this year about going with us, and then, hopefully, your experience will help you see the world in such a way that you will be willing to use your job to touch humanity and show the love of Jesus to the whole world. 

You know, there was a time when NorthWood Church’s Glocal Ventures primarily did all this, and now there are many churches working together.  Represented in this group are three other churches working with us. It is very exciting.  Rock and roll, guys!