First Post

I've been a lot of places: Nigeria, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Niger, Cote D'Ivoire, France, the good ol' United States of America, and now Canada. I've seen many things while traveling, and I've been impacted numerous times by the way God has led my family and I all the way to Woodstock, New Brunswick. It meant leaving family and friends again, just like when we went to France or Africa. The change can either affect you positively or negatively, and you must choose which you will allow. Either way, you will still be there; you won't be magically transported back to your former home. I've definitely learned that by now, if nothing else.

A new school, a new church, a new set of friends: one must adapt. Although it is painful to leave, it can become a source of strength. It is hard to understand, but we are in the will of God. I can see now the need of Woodstock for a pastor, which they didn't have until we moved here, and a family willing to be used of God to reach a hurting community. In my school, I am torn to see how many rely on drugs or alcohol, on social acceptance (of which they are willing to do anything) to feel like they belong. I see that they are searching, always searching for a love. We are the ones who must show them the love of God, who died for them, just as he died for every soul on the other side of the world as well.

This is my first post; I do not know how regularly I will add a new one, but I will try to keep it updated. Please pray for Woodstock. They say it is in the "Bible belt" of the area, but I see so many leaving their churches for the things of the world, which is in such a sad state.

I had the opportunity this summer to go to North Carolina for North American Youth Congress 2007. The sight of 18-20,000 young people with one thing in their minds, one purpose in their hearts-to advance the kingdom of God- is so powerful. I really believe that this generation can make a difference, but we cannot allow the pressures of the secular world to overtake us. The messages of the media are all pleasure-based and self-centered, a distraction from the will of God that have us reach out to a hurting, dying world.

With prayer,
Jeff Sully