1. Pray for missionaries as a family. Keep a list of missionaries near the table to talk about and pray for at meal times.
2. Read missionary biographies to your children. Expose your kids to the captivating stories of Hudson Taylor, Adoniram Judson, William Carey, Glayds Aylward and other missionary pioneers.
3. Draw the whole family into supporting missionaries financially. Teach your kids from a young age that being a good steward of their money involves channeling resources toward the cause of Christ in missions.
4. Find your child a missionary kid pen pal. Many children of missionaries around the world would be delighted to get mail from a child their age in their parents' culture. Your child (and the whole family) will learn valuable insights about living abroad through the eyes of a child.
   

I wrote this psalm on December 7 while at

Victoria Falls, Livingstone, Zambia.

I had recently been white-water rafting on the Zambezi. 

God You are Sovereign.

You created the amazing waterfalls that thunder.

The people that live here and all the animals.

The rich and the poor You made.

God, I don’t understand You or Your justice.

But I know You are just – the judge of all the earth will do right.

So God, I see my problem before me.

It looms up big like a dark cloud –

Like an overwhelming obstacle that will swallow me and consume me.

Today I was reading my diary and found a couple of entries I had meant to share but never got around to posting. This is one I wrote on October 25 while I was travelling in Scotland.

Today environmental issues are very topical. My friend Ben Clarke has written an essay titled "A Christian Response to Environmental Destruction and Poverty". This is a thought provoking look at very current issues considering things from a Christian rather than humanistic view point.

Here are a few quotes:

"We have taken luxuries, made them cheap and then learned to live with them as necessities. Thanks to fossil fuel, we have the equivalent of 40 000 personal slaves in the forms of “time saving” devices that have so captured our imagination that we work longer and longer hours to be able to acquire and upgrade them."

Yesterday I spent the day on the roof of the house, pulling up the old tin and putting down new tin. The old tin had lasted 95 years! Throughout the day I enjoyed cloud gazing. The cloud formations were just amazing. Marbled patterns, whispy strands, fluffy cotton wool, luminous grey threatening to rain etc. I just enjoyed the feeling that I was close to my Creator. Afterwards I commented that our God is so amazing. How did He think all this up? Before there was anything, there was God. And He decided to create. How did He possibly imagine what to create?