Where I stop and you begin

I am just like you. I am nothing like you. These ideas have to be knit together in order for me to be the person God can use, in this skin, with these hands.
I'm a wife, mom, professional, runner, yarn-lover, and God follower. You read this and decide if I am like you or if I am just not. We all do this, and it is our point of reference from which to respond. I've been thinking alot about that because in a few months I'll be traveling with a team of other ordinary folks to Rwanda, to serve the beautiful people who live there - for two weeks. The point of the trip, which is being organized by the amazing folks at Manchester Christian Church (http://www.manchesterchristian.com/home.asp), is to partner with the church in Rwanda for the purpose of strengthening their efforts to promote these five priorities:
p -promote reconciliation in a nation ripped apart 15 years ago by senseless genocide
e -equip servant-leaders
a -assist the poor
c -care for the sick
e -educate the next generation

This acrostic spells P.E.A.C.E., so we are called a Peace Team. This is the third one MCC has put together, and there are about 42 of us going in August. We'll be broken into smaller teams to be more effective! I have never done anything like this - and if you know me at all, you must be totally shocked! Hopefully not so much. I'm trying not to be such a slave of my limitations anymore.

So, as I learn about Rwanda and what I'll get to do there, and hopefully raise support for my travel and my team, I will be sharing it here. I hope you will walk with me, because we're really not that different.