Students and Missions
Students and Missions My daughter, Maribeth, will be 23 years old this coming April. Most people know the adventurous life she has had up to this point. Adventurous for her, but sometimes stressful for us. When Maribeth was 16 she spent 6 weeks in Costa Rica on an exchange program. When she was 18, she flew to Chicago to attend Moody Bible Institute. She spent one semester of her time at Moody in Israel and Palestine. One of her summers she worked at a dude ranch in Colorado. Currently she is married and serving at a church in Salisbury, Massachusetts, with her husband Adam. Why am I sharing this in a blog? As parents we have to learn to let go and let God take care of the children He has called to serve Him. Psalm 127:3 tells us “ Children are a gift from the Lord ; they are a reward from him. ” How did we survive all of her adventures as parents? We had to let her go. We raised her in the admonition of the LORD, and tru