It’s 31 days until my 31st birthday and my final deadline is July 1st!! Would you think about donating $31 to help me reach it?
- A couple of days every week were spent helping build a local hospital that was connected to the ministry we were hosted by in India.
- We helped out at a pop up clinic and before people could be treated by a Doctor, they were sent through a room and we asked how we could pray for them and shared the Gospel with them.
- I helped put on a Vacation Bible School in a local village, the kids were giddy with joy as we brought balloons and played with them.
- I learned how to mask greasy hair after ten days of not taking a shower and the proper way to feel “clean” while using the least amount of baby wipe! (as well as just how much water i need in a bucket to take a shower!)
- Our whole squad was in an assembly line to pass buckets of cement to help build a church.
- I packed bright colorful blankets in huge packages to send to the hills of India, so people could be warm and it would be a road in to sharing the Gospel to them.
- I fed street kids and helped share stories from the Bible, played soccer with them, and gave piggy back rides.
- We went to “restaurant and bar” places by the bus station which are basically brothels, and prayed and began to build relationships with 13 and 14 year old girls who had been brought into sex trafficking, we got their names and passed them onto a rescue agency that builds relationships with these girls and then provides them a way out and steps to a normal life.
- I stood in a bus full of people (lots that were headed up to a temple to pray on the day celebrating a hindu god of death and destruction) and preached the Gospel through a translator.
- I have been able to encourage and pray for and with the churches in India, Nepal, South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique, and now Latvia.
- I helped pray for a man and saw his shoulder healed and a word given to him by Bipin (our translator) for his daughter in law, he gave his life to the Lord on the spot.
- I played with kids from the local slums and got to tickle, wrestle and play hand games with them. Most of these kids wander around all day by themselves, playing with sticks and in the dirt.
- I have shared the love of God in public schools in South Africa and spoken of His great adventures for us!!
- I lived at an orphanage and played with kids, helping to teach them about the love of Jesus and how He is the best father anyone could ever want.
- I have learned how to live life out of a 65 liter pack, with about 3 pairs of pants, 6 shirts, and 2 pairs of shoes. It is wonderfully simple, freeing, and beautiful to live with so little but have a life so full. I have learned how to pack it just right so a years worth of items will fit inside of it!
- I have led two different teams on the World Race so far, walking beside, encouraging, and calling out, on, and up my friends and teammates to follow Jesus with everything they have.
- I prayed for a man and had a word for him that involved forgiving his family after he was put in the hospital with a sickness that caused him to lose mobility in his legs after 3 months. When I shared what I was sensing he shared that his family took a portion of his things and began to sell them off. I fully believe the Lord wants to restore His family and his ability to walk.
- We walked home to home in Mozambique praying for families and over their houses, talking to them about Jesus. (We met a man who told us it had been a year since anyone had come to the village talking about Jesus.)
- I helped put on a crusade in a village that had never heard about Jesus and saw the chief of the village give His life to God and 30 or 40 people along with him.
- Because of that crusade, a church was started in that village last weekend!! (YAY!!)
- We crossed a crocodile infested water to pray for people and share the love of Jesus with them!
- We painted a shed at a rehab and homeless ministry and helped serve up dinner to them. We also organized another shed full of items donated to the church making it easier for them to distribute to those in need.
- I preached in a local church, encouraging them that this life is fleeting and to press into all that He has for us.
- I have learned how to master all types of squatty potties, trying to find a clean spot to store my toilet paper, and squatting properly is an art! (I will leave out the rest of the details. 😉
- I worked 5 days a week in a garden that helped feed and support an orphanage. They are short staffed and have lots to do and we were able to help relieve some of the workload!
(The kids from the orphanage helping us shuck corn, after we finished weeding the garden.)
- We walked around the hospital laying hands on, praying for, and speaking comfort, hope, and peace over and into peoples’ lives.
- This month I will be playing soccer with young men who have been convicted of crimes and building relationships with them and their girlfriends this month so that we might introduce them to Jesus.
- I helped build a fence in the backyard of my host here in Latvia, I helped build a brick wall that surrounded a property in India, and I created a marriage certificate and flyers for the church and ministries we have been a part of.
- I learned exactly how much soap to put in to hand wash my clothes, how much suds is too much (and how much is too little), the proper way to scrub one part of my clothes against another to clean it and how to not get completely soaked while doing it.
- I have went on multiple hikes to pray and speak blessing and hope and His love over countries, looking out over the land, knowing He has a unique special calling and anointing over those certain people.
- I have learned (all over again) that I can’t (nor were we made to) do all this without the love and support, the rallying around and encouragement of people back home. I love you all and miss you. Thank you for your continued messages, comments, support, I can’t (and don’t want!!!) to do this without you!!
(i have also been privileged to experience many different cultures, try food (that i didn’t exactly know WHAT kind of meat it was) that is new to me, attend two Mozambican weddings, ride in many different modes of transportation, get a beautiful dress made for me in Africa for $10, learn a little bit of different languages, see incredible breathtaking beauty, hike some incredible mountains, and have my eyes and heart open to even more of His handiwork all over the world!!)
