American Missionary Fellowship

Saturday, RobAnne and I dropped off our daughter, Barrett, for her second year at Westmont College. It sure feels different dropping off your student for her second year compared to the first year! All the doubts and fears about whether she would fit in or whether this was the right school were gone, as she moved in with two marvelous young women for the first semester.

RobAnne and I met at Westmont, and the dorm Barrett moved into was the dorm where RobAnne lived when I first began to date her. It brought back a lot of great memories.

Sunday morning at our church, Sanctuary, I listened to a sermon about Ephesians 1, and I was particularly struck by verse 17. Paul is praying for the church at Ephesus and says this about his prayers: “I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation so you may know Him better.”

RobAnne and I are participating in the McGlamery Family Reunion Cruise out of Galveston, Texas. The paternal side of RobAnne’s family gets together every two years, and this year, they elected to do it in a cruise format. We spent the first couple of days of this vacation, before the ship set sail, visiting some old friends of the McGlamery family right here in Houston – good people who love the Lord and do kingdom work right here in Houston.

Sometimes I look at specific people’s lives, and I wonder how God has led them and how they have followed God’s Word and His will for their lives so well. This is the case with Linda and Foster Mays. Linda Mays has guided our Development Department at the mission for a few years. Her efforts have secured foundation money for Kaleo, for the AMFKids website, and for other worthwhile projects. She works hard, and she’s very connected in the area around the Home Office. She’s been involved in her kids’ schools, and her husband, Foster, has achieved success in the field of financial management.

There was only one “problem”: the Holy Spirit has called them into ministry.

At the corner of Beverly and Rampart, there’s a little shack called “Tommy’s Burgers.” It’s no bigger than an average-sized travel trailer that people would travel in, but it’s become a landmark in L.A. Movie stars and politicians will line up just to have these hamburgers, which are smothered with cheese, tomatoes, and onions, and then doused in chili. They’re famous around L.A. There are even some people who try to imitate Tommy’s, so the original place has a motto: “It you don’t see the shack, take it back.”