As the day comes to a close, the halls of our conference center are silent, empty, and dark. The scurry of missionary couples and the sweet voices of their children have been hushed with their morning departure. The staff has gone home to be with family for the festival of Dasain. Bill and Tom took huge loads of groceries up the mountain to the orphanage and Training Center (steep, steep, steep and rocky.) Bill went on foot and Tom by motorcycle. Tom is practicing his biking skills for tomorrow's long bike journey with Mohan, Sangeeta, Bill, and Singa to visit distant villages where both Bill and Tom will preach and teach.
The marriage conference was a resounding success. We have all been emotionally processing it throughout this day. It was not an ordinary, but rather an extraordinary, conference. Bill and Mark cared for the children to enable the missionaries the freedom to grow and learn as couples. And, learn they did! Wow! An educator can assess his success by the results of his students. The results were unbelievable. Each man and woman shared their growth at the end of the conference, and each person's sharing lasted ten to fifteen minutes. The sharings were open, tearful, thoughtful, transparent, and deep. With the power of the Holy Spirit, Tom not only changed people's thinking, he changed people's hearts. Couples' marriages and families were given new life.
None of us will ever be the same. The God we love and serve is a God of Restoration and Reconciliation. Without a doubt, Living Water flowed abundantly through the lives of those Tom came to teach and to touch.
In His Holy Name we send our love,
Memory
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