So Sorry it has been so long since we have blogged. School at Texas A&M Engineering Extension (TEEX) was brutal. Classes were 10 hours a day for 4 weeks, plus I had to get home eat dinner (THANKS to Deborah), wake up at 2:30AM (Thanks to Deborah) to do the homework and leave for school at 6:30AM the next day. On top of that the bus threw a valve the moment we arrived in Bryan TX. Through the LORDS provision I had 2 classmates staying where we were so I didn’t need to worry about trying to fix the bus while in school, I just rode with them. Praise HIM who provides for all of our needs.
So just for clarity’s sake, here are some of the finer point of our mission summed up in a few comments. There seems to be a pattern forming.
If you start at the beginning of the blogs, in 2018, you will see that the LORD had given us a vision/calling after the OGM closed to come to Southern AZ. (ROCK SOLID – The world needs to see our God). With no real idea why, we packed up, stored stuff, and piled in the bus and left Oregon. Trials and tribulations started immediately (please read previous blogs), but that is really how it goes when you are following Christ isn’t it?. I seemed to have forgotten that.
After many failed attempts to look for JUST jobs, GOD reminded us that we are missionaries, and we are to perform that work wherever we are, or whatever we are doing. So here we are, missionaries to the lost in the UXO Profession. Mostly military folk that have been dishonorably discharged, or honorably discharged and/or retired Military folk. Being a missionary in USA government services is exactly like when we were in Mongolia, you cant evangelize until you are asked why do you live like this, or why don’t you talk like this, or why can’t you do you have to tell the truth about something we saw or did or whatever….? Once someone asks though, I am free to speak. That is my queue to be able to talk about our LORD of Lords , KING of kings, JESUS…
Matthew 10
“Whatever I tell you in the dark,speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops. And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
Confess Christ Before Men “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.
People remember from last years work that I am a Christian, and some folks ridicule that, and some folks come in private and ask me for prayer for something in their lives. Praise GOD FOR BOTH. There will always be folks who ridicule us for being Christians, and there will always be the ones who recognize that there is something different about us, thanks to the HOLY SPIRIT.
So we have become truly tent-maker folk,
I get paid for the work I do, and through the Body of Christ we are able to get what we don’t have. UXO work is mostly short term, and I could work at 1 location for a month, or for a year, and not really know where the LORD is sending us next. But it is the LORD who is Truly sending us. God has called us back to the USA to be missionaries to a lost country. We believe time is short, and we will do whatever GOD calls us to do, or go wherever HE sends, with whatever means He gives us in pursuit of helping lost folks enter HIS Kingdom. I pray every day for all the folks I work with that I will get to see their smiling face in heaven.
Please Pray for;
Funds to put a new engine in the Bus. (not just fix it).
Jobs to happen where God would have us be there for Him.
Safety from the hazards of walking through the Sonora National Monument, one foot at a time. (2 milion acres of Snakes, Cartel folk, smugglers, and whatever else may come up..)
That we would be faithful to God’s calling wherever it is. (America, Middle East, or ?…)
Blessings
Craig and Deborah Graber <><