Paraguay Mission Trip 2009

Please keep Amy and Eli in your prayers for the next 2 weeks. They leave with our church on Thursday for a mission trip to Paraguay. They and the rest of the team will have a blessed time.

Have a great Easter!

We pray that your relationship with God has grown closer this Easter than the last.

Here is a great Easter video we thought you might enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-r-M_dORk0

Praise God! He makes all things new!

Imperfection and Unworthiness

One of the big struggles in this process that I went through (and sometimes still go through) is the feeling of unworthiness.

My devotion today shared a great verse:

"If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done" (Ecclesiastes 11:4 NLT)

I continue to realize that it is not about me, but it is about God. He is in control. As I continue to grasp this concept, fear and worry disappear. It really is the peace that passes understanding.

Praise God!

Being A Servant

I love this quote from John Wesley:

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can."

I pray that God will help us to become that kind of servant.

This Is Something Bigger Than Me

There is a song that they are playing on Christian radio a lot these days that really touches me. The song is "Whatever You're Doing (Something Heavenly)" by Sanctus Real. It really describes what God is doing and Amy and my life right now. Every time I hear it, I crank it up, sing along, and tear up. I need to buy this CD if only just for this song. Here are the lyrics:

It's time for healing time to move on
It's time to fix what's been broken too long
Time make right what has been wrong
It's time to find my way to where I belong
There's a wave that's crashing over me
All I can do is surrender

[Chorus]
Whatever you're doing inside of me
It feels like chaos somehow there's peace
It's hard to surrender to what I can't see
but I'm giving in to something heavenly

Time for a milestone
Time to begin again
Revaluate who I really am
Am I doing everything to follow your will
or just climbing aimlessly over these hills
So show me what it is you want from me
I give everything I surrender...
To...

[Chorus]

Time to face up
Clean this old house
Time to breathe in and let everything out
That I've wanted to say for so many years
Time to to release all my held back tears

Whatever you're doing inside of me
It feels like chaos but I believe
You're up to something bigger than me
Larger than life something heavenly

Whatever you're doing inside of me
It feels like chaos but now I can see
This something bigger than me
Larger than life something heavenly
Something heavenly

It's time to face up
Clean this old house
Time breathe in and let everything out

To An Exciting 2009

I hope that your Christmas was a blessed one. Ours was packed with lots of friends and family, lots of food, and many blessings. Some of the greatest blessing were the chances to be a blessing to someone in need. That is one of the great things about Christmas.

2009 will be an exciting year for us. We are glad we will be able to share it with you.

God Bless,
The Killens

Our first batch of letters!

Our first batch of our support letters started going out this week. Very exciting! We have so many more addresses to collect for the next batch. And it is not easy work!

Even though the US is in an economic crisis right now, we know that with God all things are possible! We are praying that he will greatly bless and multiply the funds of those who feel led to give.

Recently Spoke at UNA's ILR

Recently we were invited with a group from our church to speak about Paraguay at a meeting of UNA's Institute for Learning in Retirement. We gave a quick history of Paraguay and showed some pictures of the projects that our church supports, and talked about our recent mission trips to Paraguay. We also sold some of the Toba Indian crafts that we bought on our last trip and handed out some prayer cards. It was great! They asked lots of good questions. They even invited us to the refreshments they were having afterward.