The Journey Begins

Team Sineath has begun the blogging journey....We felt it to be good and right to record the work of God's grace in each of us and in our family as a whole as we march on this journey ahead in our life together. Today is 23 Dec 2011 and we will celebrate the birth of our Savior in 2 days. There is much for which He deserves praise in our life. First, that He is God and we are not. Second that He was pleased to reveal Himself to us in the God man Jesus Christ and draw us to himself for inexpressible joy and glory and the redemption of our souls for the glory of His Name. I am so thankful that he has shown us the immeasurable riches of His grace to myself, Heidi and Caleb in our salvation and we pray the same for Andrew and Elizabeth. With that said, we desire for this blog to be more than a theological treatise but a real time experience and record of God's grace and how it is working out in our life in very concrete and practical ways. So our first entry we will celebrate His giving to us the sports medicine fellowship that we have desired for years but have been providentially denied. We received the news 14 Dec 2011 and are overjoyed. Though every joy in this world will be linked with some form of sorrow, it is a sweet sorrow. We can look back and see many reasons He has kept us in Sumter SC for 2 extra years, growth in Christ, growth together as a husband and wife, opportunities for growth in ministering Christ to others through Young Life, our church, etc. We have developed many wonderful and cherished friendships during our 5.5 years here in Sumter and will find it hard to leave. Were it not that we believe that Christ is moving us towards something else and not just away from Sumter, it would be impossible to leave. But with God all things are possible and we certainly feel that He is moving us towards our long term goals and vision for life/ministry on a medical campus somewhere and cross cultural world missions. This step forward with the sports medicine fellowship is just the next step in that progression and growth in our life. In each step we serve and grow and worship and rejoice, and we have been so stretched and blessed during this stage of our sanctification in Sumter SC and it has been good and necessary for us and the glory of God and the good of others. We are thankful that the plans we have prayed over and proving to be part of God's plan as He determines our steps. We have much to prepare for in the coming months. One of our main prayers and desires is that we would finish well in Sumter and continue to fight the good fight. We want to continue to pour into the relationships with our friends and family prior to leaving. Also, we hope and pray that people will not pull back from us as they know that we are leaving. Though we are leaving, geographically speaking, we pray that we will continue to be encouraged by the many friends that we have made here in Sumter. So we journey ahead and are so thankful for God's wonder working grace......