PBU Update

For family & friends, or perhaps the curious passerby, here is the latest update on the Dickinson "Great Adventure." In Saturday's mail was Jason's 1st scholarship from PBU . . . $5000 per year for all 4 years. Jason will be required to maintain a 3.0 grade point average, as well as "commuter" status. Praise the Lord!!! He owns the cattle on a thousand hills (as my father always says), there's our 1st cow -- SOLD!!

Please continue to pray for our housing situation. We still do not know if we will be able to secure an apartment in the building owned by PBU. And even if we do, we are still unsure how it will be paid for. Jason has a gut-feeling that we will not be living in those apartments . . . that God has something else in mind. I'm not sure where we'll be living, but I know God will take care of it. We just need LOADS of wisdom because it's a little tough to sell a house when you don't know where you're going or when you need to be there :)

There is a passage of Scripture in Joshua that Jason & I have often referred to during this "Great Adventure":

Joshua 3:7-8 -- And the LORD said to Joshua, "Today I will begin to exalt you in the eyes of all Israel, so they may know that I am with you as I was with Moses. Tell the priests who carry the ark of the covenant: 'When you reach the edge of the Jordan's waters, go and stand in the river.'"

Joshua 3:15-17 -- Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest. Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water's edge, the water from upstream stopped flowing. It piled up in a heap a great distance away . . . the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel passed by until the whole nation had completed the crossing on dry ground."

WOW!!! What we have always found fascinating about this passage is that the Lord did not stop the river first and then ask the priests to step in. The priests had to have the faith to step into a raging river first.

So here we are, standing at the river's edge. Where did I put those flippers?? Oh, wait, that's right . . . I'm not going to need them.