We’re almost to the half-way point of General Conference. Committee work for some will continue until 9:30pm Pacific Time. As you can imagine, by this time in the week, many delegates are getting a little tired. Almost everyone is away from family, many are out of their own country, and all have been rung through the emotional ringer. We have had people getting ill and several struggling from dehydration. I’ve been feeling physically great all week only to come down with a migraine headache this afternoon! As I look around my committee room right now, there is a palpable weariness.
You and I both know that people at General Conference aren’t the only tired and weary among us. I have a sense that my wife feels exactly the same way right now. (I am so thankful for you, dear!) You may be exhausted as you read this. Let me encourage you. God has made provision for your weariness. It’s called Sabbath rest.
This will not be my most profound blog entry during the week of General Conference, but I hope it is the most read and acted upon. If at all possible, when you wake up on Sunday morning, go to worship with your faith community, enjoy your family or friends and ENJOY God’s gift of Sabbath rest in Christ. I may or may not write about my rest tomorrow. If I decide not to, its because I’m napping! Either way, we will catch up on Monday.
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. – Jesus in Matthew 11:28
Pastor Andy Adams 
Thanking the Father for your service to God’s Kingdom, Andy! Reading your first paragraph, you could easily have been any one of our group of orientation/language learners we are hosting who are new to our organization here in Tanzania (illness, weariness, homesickness, dehydration; the list goes on…)! Thank you for answering God’s call on your life–to be a missionary to others who are homesick and weary, but don’t yet know why–and for giving it your “all”!