My pastor from back home wrote an e.mail today telling me that this bamboo shoot I gave him from my office happened to be sprouting all over the place. That would not be a big deal to blog about except this thing has never grown since I've had it. I watered it and then it would just stay the same. So you can imagine what I thought when I heard it was sprouting way back in Venice during my first week of work here at GRM. Could it be that it's God's way of encouraging me that there is all sorts of new growth happening for Caye Siller? I also thought of that plant in the movie E.T. and how it was connected to the life of ET. I hope that gives you a good laugh. I don't think that bamboo shoot is connected to me but it sure is true that there is all sorts of new life for me right now.


Cool God Story:
I was asked to lead a devotional for our Board Meeting today. I talked about “Chasing the Son!” and the concidence of my theme song being about the death of Christ (Yes, I will” was on my farewell order)…..Well here I am chasing the Sun to AZ and my first week of work happens to be the Passion week before Easter. Talk about weird? So then well into the meeting I give an update on my support. The book keeper here re-did my entire support needs and made all these fancy total boxes. Turns out my math was off (big surprise). Based on my needs in the budget I was only short 133.58 in order to be at 100%. Now that really is a small amount considering I thought I needed around $2000 more. I saw it as God’s provision though and as I was sharing one of our board members asked why there was still $133.58 left? I said, well I still need that much but it really was a blip compared to $30,000 that God has provided. We all laughed and in the laughter I said, “But hey, if anyone wants to make a contribution to make me 100% feel free!”. That same lady chimed in and said, “I think I will, Caye”. Of course my heart, was so greatful as she whipped out her checkbook in the middle of the board meeting and gave me the final amount. I later found out that this same week the VCS 3rd grade class also raised around $200 from a bake sale. Thank you guys! So here I am “Chasing the Son” and he has truly met all my needs.

Update from Phoenix

I feel like it's been a month since I left Florida but it's only been a week. One of those weeks where every day feels like it's own chapter, ya know? We traveled through to Baton Rouge the first day then to Ozoma Texas the next. The last day was only suppose to take 8 hours but the winds were really strong and took my topper and kept pushing the car around. We could only go about 65 most of the way....it took 15hours. After unpacking a couple of days Mom and I took a trip to Sadona. It reminded me of the Grand Canyon and was very beautiful. (If you double click onthe pics to the left you will get re-directed to my picasa album with comments on the pics.) After Mom left on Monday it really sunk in that I was here and very far from my comfort zone. I decided the best thing to do was to get busy with ministry. Today is my second day here in the Greater Reach office. I have loved being here and getting organized. Today Kristin Beasley and I went to lunch and just caught up. I was able to share some personal concerns with her that I would only trust with someone I knew well. So far there is much being discussed and worked on. The big one has been getting my support checks coming in. (I've saved it all till I was able to start). The book keeper here re-did the entire spreadsheet of my support and found that my numbers were a little off. I AM ACTUALLY 99.9% RAISED IN MY SUPPORT! Can you believe it? All my needs are met and I'm stoked. Praise God and thank you.

Some future events on my calender:
Thursday: Board meeting (this is where big decisions are approved)
Sunday: Spend Easter at the Beasleys
April 20-25: Attend a professional fund-raising school for promoting the ministry and my personal skills.
April 23: Spend 2 days with our contact from Romania planning our trip in October.
April 27-29: GRM Team Retreat to talk about big ideas in a cool mountain cabin
May 7th: My Birthday....I just added that for posterity