God has given our family three major blessings during these summer months – three blessings that I pray will bring fruit for the kingdom of God in unique ways.

A Baby

This summer, Corina gave birth to our second child – a daughter, Julia Karis Wax. We live in a culture that sometimes downplays the importance of children, often seeing them as burdens and heavy responsibilities. As Christians, we see our new daughter as a blessing from God – a blessing to be treasured, cherished, and trained up in the way of the Lord. A godly woman of faith can do tremendous things for God’s kingdom, and we pray that our investment in this little girl will one day reap kingdom benefits that we would never think to imagine.

A Book

The second summer blessing has been the opportunity to work on a book, scheduled to be published by Crossway in January 2010. I have spent the last two months working on the manuscript, and I plan on spending the month of August making final revisions and receiving feedback from some friends. I am humbled that the Crossway team would want to publish this project, and I am excited about the opportunity to labor for the kingdom in a new way.

A Mission

A third summer blessing has not yet arrived. I plan to take a small mission team to Moldova (the country that borders Romania) in September. This will be my first trip to this Eastern European country, and I am looking forward to teaching/preaching again in Romanian and having the opportunity to train bivocational pastors. I have long believed that when the time is right, we will do additional work in Eastern Europe, and it excites me to think that we will soon have a foretaste of future ministry.

My 31-day blog fast was needed in order to direct my attention to the three summer blessings that God has given us. But it is good to be writing regularly again. Next week, I plan on sharing a few lessons I learned from taking a blog sabbatical.

written by Trevin Wax. copyright © 2008 Kingdom People Blog.