Words of Encouragement

Dear ones, we've received yet another letter of encouragement from long-time partners in ministry. In fact, they are the first people God used to encourage us in this ministry journey in Hungary and Romania. So read below and then continue on to the two additional blogs added in recent days.

Blessings to all,
Rob and Carol

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The following is from Lowell and Sally Senitz, Missionaries to women and children who are victims of slavery, working through Safe Houses Int'l, Inc. If you are interested in being a part of this worthwhile work for the Lord, you can contact Lowell and Sally at: wingsofshelter@aol.com
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Rob and Carol, our friends whom we've prayed for for over 10 years!

Amazing is all that we can say! Our God is Amazing that he has taken a couple out of the middle of America with children and grandchildren at the point of most people's retirement and given them a heart to serve others - on the other side of the World! Amazing is our God who 'places the desires upon our hearts as we follow Him and look toward Him'. Amazing our 'God who fulfills the desires of our hearts'! Amazing is our God who gives those strength and ability as they reach out to serve others! Amazing is the love of God that flows through His servants who are obedient to Him!

Amazing are our friends, Rob and Carol, who for over 10 years have sought to honor God, to please Him, to offer their life in service for Him, who have been willing to be obedient far beyond their comfort zone. Amazing are our friends, Rob and Carol, who have, without expectation, given such Amazing Love to so many hundreds of people. Amazing are our friends, Rob and Carol, who have been willing to make changes that are so far outside our personal control and personal comfort, for the sake of God's leading and the sake of being obedient to the One who has given them life! Amazing are our friends, Rob and Carol, who literally have poured out their lives to serve others because of their confidence in God's love and ability to give them strength and God's willingness to provide them with resources to do the work. Amazing, our friends, Rob and Carol, who listen to God's voice through the Word of God, though the prompting in their Spirit, through other's Godly counsel, through one another, through open and closed doors----to make major changes in their lives --- according to God's Will.

We love them and know they are blessed! We were the first to take Carol on a missions trip to Romania-10 years ago! We saw her fall in love with those precious ones that had "no one to love them", we saw her go back home to America, after the missions trip and grieve and grieve over the situation that she had left, over the burden to do something for these precious ones, and the desire to 'go' and 'serve' outside of their comfort zone! We saw Rob getting ready to retire as a Chief Executive from a successful American Company and struggle through the decisions that would take himself and his precious wife overseas, away from grandchildren and children, friends and comfort of home. We saw Rob and Carol grow with Christ through the experiences they had, both good and bad, as they took the step to "be willing" to be in Eastern Europe for missions, "forever, if that is what their God called them to do".

Now, 10 years later, God is calling them back home to America! They once gain, will go through the suffering of "letting go of great friends", "letting go of an entire ministry that they have wrapped their lives and hearts around for 10 years". But we see the witness through their "lives poured out for others" and through their obedience to "pick up once more - and move their lives back to America", after establishing 10 years on the missions field.

We pray diligently for Rob and Carol, for God's wisdom, for God's comfort and for God's continued leading and protection upon them! We continue to pray, as we have over the 10 years, that they continue to flow out their love - upon others - that love that nourishes and touches the hearts of 100's that they have been near.

We are excited for them to come back to America...where God's next step is waiting......

We love you Rob and Carol, we stay united in hearts and minds and love,
You are welcome to come to stay with us in Florida for a time of R & R and some 'relaxation in the sun',
We love you, we are in pray for you,

Your friends, Lowell and Sally
Senitz

Rob and Carol's your lives are a living testimony of this verse from the Bible:

Acts 20:35-36 (New International Version)

V.35 In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.' "