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Many of my favorite memories of my childhood cluster around the Easter season. It’s the season of new life, and the celebration of Resurrection Life. Spring blooms, animal babies, family times, and moments of deep spiritual impact all cluster together in my memory. Christ arose! And because He lives, we no longer have to live as if death is the ultimate reality. The power to kill is a second-rate power in the universe—there is one who has the power to give life! And in case we’ve forgotten that, He uses all of nature as His canvas, every spring, to remind us. Since our last newsletter just before Christmas, we have been nearly overwhelmed with special moments, each deserving to be savored and memorized for more savoring later. They have been coming as thick and sweet as corn syrup from a fire hose.
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To start with, Jackie and I are now grandparents, with two new granddaughters. As I type this, Kaiya Noel Braswell is nine weeks old and Emma Madison Clouser is three weeks old. Kaiya was born to our son Eric and his wife Sabrina on January 27. She weighed 7 pounds 14 ounces and was 20.25 inches long. They live in Springfield. Emma was born to our daughter Tabby and her husband Jason on March 7. She weighed 7 pounds 3 ounces and was 20 inches long. They live in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Eric and Sabrina brought Kaiya and visited Tabby and Emma in the hospital, where the above snapshot was taken.
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Jackie and I are also experiencing a new kind of life. It’s official: I’ve left my role as Director of Technical Services at Assemblies of God World Missions. They gave me a going away party complete with a cake that appropriately sported a pledge form! We are getting into the rhythm of raising funds as candidate missionaries to Tanzania, East Africa. Our goal is to be in Tanzania the beginning of 2004. We have called all 392 AG churches in the Southern Missouri district and are still calling. Pray with us that God will direct us to the places we can help, as well as those that can help us with pledges of church support. We also need personal pledges from family and friends to enable us to get there. God is blessing our efforts and so far we are on track, but we still have about 75% to go. We are needed in Tanzania and we are eager to get there. Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, the greatest church planting revival Africa has ever seen— perhaps the greatest the world has ever seen—is taking place right now. In fact, evangelism has outstripped discipleship and it is a crisis situation within the African church. Pray that God will send laborers, and that the harvest will be preserved. It will be hard to leave our grandbabies. We wish we could take them with us. But we don’t wish we could stay here—we could stay here. In fact, it would be smart to stay here, if this short life was our ultimate reality. But our priorities have to reflect a higher reality:
He lives! From the moment Kaiya appeared, we have lost all objectivity. We have been carrying grandbaby pictures around and showing them to total strangers, with complete conviction that ours are in fact the most beautiful grandbabies in the world.
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Many of my favorite memories of my childhood cluster around the Easter season. It’s the season of new life, and the celebration of Resurrection Life. Spring blooms, animal babies, family times, and moments of deep spiritual impact all cluster together in my memory. Christ arose! And because He lives, we no longer have to live as if death is the ultimate reality. The power to kill is a second-rate power in the universe—there is one who has the power to give life! And in case we’ve forgotten that, He uses all of nature as His canvas, every spring, to remind us. Since our last newsletter just before Christmas, we have been nearly overwhelmed with special moments, each deserving to be savored and memorized for more savoring later. They have been coming as thick and sweet as corn syrup from a fire hose.
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To start with, Jackie and I are now grandparents, with two new granddaughters. As I type this, Kaiya Noel Braswell is nine weeks old and Emma Madison Clouser is three weeks old. Kaiya was born to our son Eric and his wife Sabrina on January 27. She weighed 7 pounds 14 ounces and was 20.25 inches long. They live in Springfield. Emma was born to our daughter Tabby and her husband Jason on March 7. She weighed 7 pounds 3 ounces and was 20 inches long. They live in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Eric and Sabrina brought Kaiya and visited Tabby and Emma in the hospital, where the above snapshot was taken.
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Jackie and I are also experiencing a new kind of life. It’s official: I’ve left my role as Director of Technical Services at Assemblies of God World Missions. They gave me a going away party complete with a cake that appropriately sported a pledge form! We are getting into the rhythm of raising funds as candidate missionaries to Tanzania, East Africa. Our goal is to be in Tanzania the beginning of 2004. We have called all 392 AG churches in the Southern Missouri district and are still calling. Pray with us that God will direct us to the places we can help, as well as those that can help us with pledges of church support. We also need personal pledges from family and friends to enable us to get there. God is blessing our efforts and so far we are on track, but we still have about 75% to go. We are needed in Tanzania and we are eager to get there. Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, the greatest church planting revival Africa has ever seen— perhaps the greatest the world has ever seen—is taking place right now. In fact, evangelism has outstripped discipleship and it is a crisis situation within the African church. Pray that God will send laborers, and that the harvest will be preserved. It will be hard to leave our grandbabies. We wish we could take them with us. But we don’t wish we could stay here—we could stay here. In fact, it would be smart to stay here, if this short life was our ultimate reality. But our priorities have to reflect a higher reality:
He lives! From the moment Kaiya appeared, we have lost all objectivity. We have been carrying grandbaby pictures around and showing them to total strangers, with complete conviction that ours are in fact the most beautiful grandbabies in the world.
