Jordan - Learning to trust

It is Monday. I am about to leave for our last spring break meeting at Jeff and Jane Cramer's house. I have to admit with three days left I feel completely ill prepared. This is strange because really we have done so much to get ready to go. We have completed presentations on history, economy, people groups, and culture. We even have a web site so that we are able to review facts. We have visited a Mosque and chatted extensively about Islam. We have sampled Middle Eastern food on multiple occasions. We have even learned a little Arabic. However, I am still so nervous and not ready to leave. I am in fact dreading it. I am so worried I will offend the Iraqi refugees and the Jordanian people. Our cultures are so different and really Americans/Christians do not have the best reputations in the Middle East.

However, regardless of my feelings, we leave in three days. I have to trust that God has ordained this trip. He knows every second, from the moment we leave Taylor on Thursday until we return the following Saturday. This is His trip, not mine. He is a God greater than cultural differences, than animosity, than fear, than any barrier that could and will be thrown at this team. He has brought together the perfect group of students and we should be ready to learn and to encounter Christ in powerful ways. So please pray for us to rely on God and to trust that although we do not know what will happen, He does.

Allison Maybray