He is Gentle...
As OMF Active Retirees, we love having a gentle schedule. We want to worship Jesus who said, “I am gentle” (Matt. 11:29), and become like him. May we bear the Spiritual fruit of gentleness (Gal. 5:22-25). The themes of gentle and gentleness are powerful and gentle words for us from God these days.
Since arriving in the Philppines in September 2024, we have continued to mentor pastors, leaders, seminary professors, missionaries, and others in the Philippines. Doing so face-to-face, in the same time zone, is great! It has been good to catch up more with family. A couple of projects have been finished in our condo unit. A few remain. We plan to spend a week in mid-January 2025 in Baguio City to see friends. There we participate in a two-day reunion of the student ministry at Amor’s alma mater. Plans are being made for a family event in late January. Our schedule has been and will be, we pray, gentle, as the calendar counts down to February 25, when we go to the USA.
The logistics of splitting each year between the Philippines and the USA have taken more energy than we expected. Overall, though, we sense God’s gentle blessings on His plans for us to divide each year between the USA and the Philippines. We hope to continue in this plan.
We arrive in Denver, Lord willing, on February 25, as we wrote above. After we get over jet lag, we plan to focus again on Denver and Colorado. Church. Our church’s network. Friends. Prayer partners. Family. We hope to add some nice touches to our apartment. Routine medical & dental appointments are on the calendar. Colorado parks and trails beckon. We look forward to some gentle days.
Then, Lord willing, in mid-September 2025, we will travel to the Philippines for about six months.
Because He is gentle, Jay and Amor