These comments do not necessarily have to do with our current trip but the idea of starting churches (It makes me really excited about doing so in Asia because this is a dream that I have wanted to be fulfilled for a long time!!) I have been really encouraged and strengthened by the people in my home group just their honesty about sin and their struggles makes me feel completely at peace and at rest knowing that God is at work in all of us no matter what is going on in our lives. This quote that I read in the Introduction to James in the Message Bible confirms my thoughts and feelings about the church. “So, Christian Churches are not, as a rule, model communities of good behavior. They are rather, places where human misbehavior is brought out in the open, faced, and dealt with.” I’m so grateful for God’s forgiveness and his willingness to take us no matter what and the beautifulness of sharing that with our brothers and sisters.