And God said, "Ha!"

The past five years of my life I have been doing everything in my power to stay out of America, the past three years I have avoided mega-churches and mainstream Christian culture like it will kill my soul instead of saving it... all the time serving God whose got a fiery sense of humor.

Since September I have been traveling all over SoCal with the World Vision AIDS Experience Tent. We have mostly been at college campuses and though exhaustion sometimes gets the best of me, I love it. A year ago, had you told me I was still going to be in the Sates, I would have dreaded the boredom, however, I find myself entangled in more adventures than I've ever signed up for before. Then I get the news about the Spring and Summer tour... all mega-churches and Christian music festivals. Yep, God's snickering as I ponder the ways I will be able to cope.

I am being stretched in ways that I never wanted or expected. It all came full circle this week when my tour brought me to the shiny new campus of The Rock Church in San Diego. I was at that church for six long years waiting for God to let me go somewhere else. I loved the people, but the church had no global perspective and though I was plugged in deep with leadership there, I felt my spirit and vision slowly melting away... but I trudged on, knowing the Lord had me there talking to what seemed like brick walls about global issues, injustice, poverty, and so on and so forth for a reason. I never thought I would see that reason, especially when I left and nobody seemed to notice or care about the seeds I had been sewing all six years I was there. I felt snubbed and unappreciated and just kept reminding myself how grateful I was that that was all I had to deal with there, its not like they crucified me or anything, they just asked me to bridal my passion and get into the box.

So, you can imagine when I got the call that The Rock had booked the Tent, my first reaction was, "do they know it has to do with Africa?"

This week I have the opportunity to do something that I try to never expect, that is, see the fruit of the seeds I have labored to put into fertile ground. How faithful is our Lord? The Rock is starting a partnership with World Vision and the people here are so stoked on the possibilities.

Thus, the Lord is preparing me for the stretches that are sure to come this next season of my emersion into mainstream Christian culture. I always talk about how much I like being uncomfortable and out of my element... welcome to the fruition of God's sense of humor in my life.