Ready to Move

We always try to be ready to move, whether to heaven or to another spot here.  There is so much work to moving, to remind us of the value of where we are and the joy of where we are going.  Nothing against Texas, but we would stay in California if it were up to us -- we are following granddaughters (and they have parents, of course).  The Coulston's new mailing address is P.O. Box 93165, Southlake, Texas, 76092.  Donations to Made in the Streets may be done online or sent to Made in the Streets, 409 Franklin Road, Brentwood, TN 37027.  But anything that needs our special attention please send to the Texas address.  

Tomorrow is a granddaughter's 5th birthday, and in two weeks we will have been married 45 years.  As Scripture says of the early church - "much grace was upon them all" - we have first-hand experience of that great and wondrous grace that grows out of not only the kindness of God but also the kindness of God's people.  

So...be kind!   And rejoice in grace!

A Good Book

Now and then I find a book that reaches deep down within me where my true heart resides.  That part of my life needs to be touched now and then with great ideas, because it is out of that place that my actions come.  Last year Mike Rivas of Thousand Oaks, CA, gave us several copies of John Ortberg's Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them.  Two weeks ago I finally got around to reading it myself.  Chapter 3 on "the fellowship of the mat" is worth spending my own money for.  So today I introduced the book to the Team members at Made in the Streets who are dorm supervisors for the boys.  I asked them to read it at the same time and talk in pairs after each chapter.  They agreed.  I found out that a couple of the Team have already read it, and now 6 are engaged with it.  We will see what it touches in them and what it will come to mean to the street kids also.

When you find a book that reaches you, we would love for you to recommend it to our Team, or buy a few copies for us.  We can get the books over here in suitcases when we travel.  Let us know.  It's a way to powerfully impact young men and women who powerfully impact kids who have no home and no hope.