I had to write a reflection paper for my comp. class and since I have not posted anything in a while I thought I would post it.

A Special Lunch with Dad

I love to fly.  May Dad is a pilot and I have spent many hours in the air with him flying many different airplanes.  Of the many trips that Dad and I have taken there is one that always sticks out and that is when we went to lunch in an airplane.

I can remember the scene like it was just the other day and not 28 years ago.  When the Kindergarten class let out we would leave the kindergarten-building, walk through the main elementary building, and then out the front doors to the waiting school buses.  This day as I walked out of the front doors and looked up I saw my Dad, which was a surprise because he almost never came to pick me up at school.  I asked what he was doing and he said that we were going to lunch, but first we had to stop the airport.

When we arrived at the airport Dad walked up to a white Cessna 172 with a purple stripe and asked if I wanted to go flying.  I was very excited.  I walked around the airplane with Dad as he did his pre-flight inspection, then we climbed up.  Since I was still very small I could not see over the instrument panel.  We taxied out to the runway and Dad did the engine run up.  When the air traffic controller gave Dad the clearance, he positioned the airplane on the runway and ran up the power.  Slowly the little Cessna 172 began to move and build up speed.  Then the greatest feeling ever took place, Dad pulled back on the yoke and the air lifted the wings and we were flying!

Dad controlled the airplane on a westerly heading and we headed to lunch.  I did not know where we were going just extremely happy to be flying with my Dad.  We flew to what someone my age thought was hours, but it was only about 45 minutes until Dad started the landing checklist.

As we descended I thought we were in Indiana or someplace far away.  Dad made the approach and softly landed the airplane at Grimes Field Airport in Urban, Ohio.  Dad taxied the airplane to the parking apron and shut it down.  We walk to the FBO (Fix Base Operator), which had a dinner in it.  Dad announced that this is where we were to have lunch.

I remember having French toast for lunch it was the best because I did not get to eat breakfast food for lunch and I had just arrived to lunch in an airplane.  We ate our lunch and as we were leaving I noticed there was a large board in the FBO lobby that had switches on it.  I started to play with the switches and certain lights would light up.  Dad explained to me that the different lights where the same lights that are on an airplane.  Cool I thought I wanted that light board for my bedroom.

We walked back out to the airplane and Dad did his pre-flight once more.  We took off and headed back to Columbus.  All I was thinking about was how cool it will be to tell all of my friends about this special lunch with Dad.

Your Are Everything

You’re everything
I could want
That I could need
If I could see
You want me
Could I believe?
‘Cause You’re perfectly
All I want, and all I need
If I could just feel Your touch
Could I be free?
Why do You shine so?
Can a blind man see?
Why do You call?
Why Do You beckon me?
Can the deaf hear the voice of love?
Would You have me come?
Can the cripple run?
Are You the one?

Chorus:
To raise me up
From this grave
Touch my tongue
And then I’ll sing
Heal my limbs
Then joyfully I’ll run to You

Outro:
You’re everything
I could want and I could need
I can just, feel your touch
and I can’t breathe
And how you shine so
the blind can see
and how you call out
you beckon me
the deaf hear the voice of love
you bid me come
and the cripple run
You’re the one

So raise me up
from this grave
you touch my tongue
and then I’ll say:
Heal my limbs
and joyfully I’ll run to you (2x)

You’re everything

And I’m alive and I’ll sing
And I’m alive and I’m free

Dear Friends,

For little over two years I have been following God’s direction for my life in going to Brazil as a healthcare missionary. I probably have bored many of you with my excitement in going into full-time missions.

These past two years have had some ups and downs. The past year has been particularly very hard for me in preparing for Brazil. It has been a frustrating, stressful, hurtful, and confusing time. It has also affected my life, relationships, and finances.

This past month I asked God for His direction and how I was to handle everything that was going on. And in that instant He answered me and said that He was closing the door on me going to Brazil for missions. Therefore I have resigned from Project AmaZon (PAZ) and the Vineyard Church of Knox County (VCKC) Missionary Apprenticeship Program.

For those who have supported me, through either PAZ or VCKC, your support will be directed to help purchase medical supplies for the PAZ healthcare ministry. The support that has been raised so far will go a long way and have a great impact for healthcare missions.

During the time God told me that He was closing the “missions door”, He also gave me a word, “surg tech”. A long time ago I thought about becoming a surgical technician. I am now perusing that. I will be attending Central Ohio Technical School for an Associate Degree in Surgical Technology. I will then continue the education and seek to become a Surgical Assistant.

I would like to thank all of you who have supported and encouraged me during the last two years. It is all greatly appreciated. I pray that you may not feel like you have wasted you money in supporting me as it continues to go to helping people who cannot afford to get medical care and most of all it shows God’s love through medical missions.

If you have any questions about this decision please feel free to e-mail me at paulchandler7@gmail.com.

Blessings,

Paul

I have wanted to tell you all about the Global Mission Health Conference, but I am having some trouble writing it out. It has been hard for me to put thoughts onto paper so that is why the lack of writing.

The GMHC was truly awesome. There was so much to see and do. I got to spend time with my friend Ken (we drove from MT. Vernon to Louisville together). I met Katie, Becca, Daryl, and Lindsay for the first time, even though we have been FaceBook friends for a long time. I got to “network” with a bunch of vendors and mission related organizations.

I was privileged to hear some very good speakers both in the main sessions and the breakout sessions.

I also got to hear God reconfirm His calling in my life for health missions in Brazil.

I will write more about the conference in my November Newsletter. Be looking for that at the end of November.

Peace

This week I will be attending the Global Mission Health Conference in Louisville, Kentucky.  I have been looking forward to this conference for a while now and for several reasons.  First I get to spend time with Ken Trezise (I worked with Ken in Brazil), second the conference itself and all that it is, third spending time with other medical missionaries, and fourth and most important it is about how to share God’s love through medical mission “so that others may live”!

You can follow me on FaceBook Paul’s Mission to Brazil and Twitter @junglemedic.  So if modern technology is working I will post updates via my cell phone.

Please be praying for us this week, both Ken and I as we travel, and the conference itself.

Blessings!