and returned to Ft. Hood only to be beaten to death in a bar, while others watched. You may want to google "Nicholas Peters, Harker Hights, TX".  There were hundreds of soldiers at the memorial. I have never been to anything like that. The looks on the faces of those young men were so sober and stunned. I sat in the back and begged God to reveal Himself to those men. I prayed that God would show them that their days are numbered, and that there is a time to die; after that the judgment. I kept thinking "How does a family send their son off to Iraq, and then know he die  like that. I also am reminded how sin is excused as a "mistake" , "not so bad", etc. and we do not see sin as God sees sin. Oh, that God would open the eyes of His children (me), that they (I) would pray for the unsaved; that we (I) would have a greater love for righteousness, holiness and godliness. 

The time is here to train the "teams" of those who will be ministering to the five schools holding After School Good News Clubs. In the last 48 hours, most of my plans have fallen apart, and I have been driven to my knees on behalf of this ministry. One leader's husband was killed yesterday in Iraq. One other wife of a deployed soldier called me, in tears about her child's behavior in school; another military wife's husband has emergency medical treatment hundreds of miles out of town- and her "team" from the church backed out of their commitment to adopt a school.

However, I know in my soul that this is God's harvest field and not mine. He will tear apart what I have planned, and put it back together the way He wants- and I get to watch!