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You'd think that being a missionary the whole "church thing" wouldn't be taken care of (I mean, I'm down here on a church planting team!) but it's really not.  I spend most of my Sunday's in a service that I can barely understand (I do lots of smiling and nodding!).  So, now I have global church.  I go to my Las Aguilas church on Sunday, enjoy being a joven and practice my Spanish...then I listen to podcasts during the week from churches across the US (I LOVE podcasts).

Last week I was listening to a message from the Village Church.  The Lead Pastor there is Matt Chandler, I heard him a year ago at a conference and have been listening to his podcast ever since.  I love how he teaches the Word of God with such unabashed passion.  When you listen to him you know that he loves God and God's Word and he wants others to, also!

On Thanksgiving Matt, who is a 35 year old husband and father of three, had a seizure...which lead to the doctor's discovering a tumor on the right frontal lobe of this brain.  Last Friday, the 4th of December, Matt had surgery to remove the tumor and sometime this week they will know whether or not it is cancerous.

Bam!  Just like that his world has flipped upside down.  I'm am sharing this with you for a couple reasons:
1) So that you can pray for Pastor Matt and his family and 2) So that you can watch this video that was posted before his surgery.  I admire this man's faith.  I have been fearful at certain times over the past 6 months...but when I watch his video it challenges me to live a life of faith...to continue to trust God (not just in the good/easy times).
3) Also, just to be transparent, I hope that someday I have a husband who can say this about me  (see #5).  Wow.