Orientation

Orient - familiarize (someone) with new surroundings or circumstances; "The dean of students tries to orient the freshmen"

Today is our first real step beyond the application process. We have our Taiwan Program Orientation call this evening. In preparation we were asked to familiarize ourselves with the fee schedule, our service plan, the expected timeframe for the entire process etc. Once we complete our phone call tonight, we then need to have everything notarized and mailed back to the agency with our first set of fees (several thousand dollars). On one hand, this seems a bit overwhelming but, honestly, on the other it seems so small and insignificant. God called us to this plan. He said He’d provide. He knows the deadlines set forth by our agency. Case closed. God doesn’t need me micromanaging His plan.

During church yesterday morning our pastor quoted Hudson Taylor (missionary to China) as saying “God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply.” God, we believe we’re doing your work; in your way. Help us to be obedient to what you've called us to do. Direct our paths. Direct each and every step. Keep our eyes on you and not on our earthly circumstances. We humbly ask that you bring a flood of your supply.

Matthew 6:25
For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? "Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to to his life?