Letter of intent... or something

Erine and I officially sent this letter to Harvest 5 mintues ago. It feels really good to be making steps twoards moving to Botswana. Thought some of you might like to see it.

KP




October 22, 2006


Harvest Fellowship,

This summer you all sent a couple of teams to Old Naledi, Botswana with the desire to form a partnership between God's church here in Manhattan and the one there. In our short time in Botswana, we firmly believe you started that process. But, that was just the beginning. This is a partnership that Harvest and Old Naledi both desire to develop and continue to grow.

As many of you know, God has put a desire on my family's heart to continue to take another step in this partnership by moving to Old Naledi and working with the fellowship there. Old Naledi fellowship and Pastor (“Moruti”) James have also expressed a desire for us to come along side of then to serve the Father. So, it is our payer that sometime late next summer we will cross the ocean and make a home in Botswana. It is our hope to be sent as a team with Becky Hartnett (Dave and Barb's daughter).

The church of Old Naledi has even expressed specific work for us to do. I have been asked to help lead the youth men, Erine to help with the women and the large number of young moms in the church and community, and Beck with the youth girls. There are also many physical needs to be met as a result of the devastating impact of AIDS and the poverty in this village. The harvest is plentiful and ready – but the workers are few.

Now to the point of this letter – it is the great desire of Erine, Elijah, and myself to be sent out by this church. We desire to be an extension of you all – not a separate entity. We still desire and need the payer, support, accountability, and fellowship this body has shared with us this last year. So, please pray. Ask God if this is something He would have Harvest to do. We can't do it alone.

Under His Grace,
Kevin, Erine, and Elijah Porter

Post on my other blog...

I posted on my other blog... the Africa one. If you want to read it, go here

KP

One year notice...

About a week ago, I put my "one year notice" at my job. I love the Bluestem Bistro a whole heck of a lot - I even had dreams of owning it not too long ago. But I feel like a weight has been lifted off of my shoulders. Partly because my talk with my boss went way better than I could have ever hoped for (i.e. we both felt really appreciated and I still have a job - thanks if you were praying for that) - Kevin Peirce is a pretty great guy/boss. But mostly, because we (the Porters) are finally moving in a new direction. We're putting our God given passions into action. I love the BB, but it just wasn't making me excited to get up and go to work in the mornings anymore. However, now that this is more of an in between sort of phase - I kind of have this renewed passion to go to work again. It's great. Also, I get to figure out how in the heck we're going to get to Botswana. Which, is proving to be a bigger task than I originally anticipated. Speaking of... back to work.


But, all this talk of loving coffee shops reminds me...

This, the BBC homepage for Africa, makes me sad. So much hurt and heartache. So much need.

War.

What justifies it?

We went to one place because we suspected they had weapons of mass destruction and felt justified doing so.

Now, another (who I might add isn't particularly friendly with us either) is straight out telling us they have and will soon be testing nuclear weapons is just being told "Stop it! That's bad!"

Hidden motives perhaps finally coming to light? Or just one country is more of a threat than another?

There's something to be said for consistancy in foreign policy.

Pictures for my Scottish friends.

These are some pictures for my Scottish friends Dave and Jen. She designed and implemented the creation of this beautiful mural that now graces the wall of my son's room. It's super cool. Also, K-State football is allways a good time... with or with rain or an offensive line.

Sadly, I'm a smuck. I promised to get Jen these photos before she headed back to Scottland and didn't. Since they won't e-mail right, I'm posting them here for her to copy to her computer. Sorry Jen. A cd with the photos is in the mail.

But, the bright side is that the rest of you get to see the super rad mural.














PS - Jen, there are more than just these... but these are the best ones. I'll include the rest on the cd I'm going to send you.

PPS - To those of you that actually read this thing... sorry I haven't posted in awhile. College football and the video game I got for my birthday are sucking my life away.

Crazy fat singing dutch boy.

Thanks to my Scottish friends, I know now that if you google "crazy fat singing dutch boy" this is what you'll find. (Scroll down the page just a bit to see the video bit.)


Or equally as good... video googleling "Japanesse Backstreet Boys" leads to this nugget of joy.

Good eats.

We tried to feed Eli rice cereal for the first time. It was pretty fun for us. I'm not to sure he ate any of it, but he sure thought we were pretty funny for putting goopy stuff in his mouth.