Happy March!! I can’t believe that it is already March and that I will be leaving in 4 short months. The Lord continues to bless and provide for me, exactly what I need, when I need it! There are a few updates that you need to know about. My first is about my immunizations; I had an appointment to go a couple of Mondays go to a travel doctor. I ended up cancelling and making an appointment for May at the Health Dept. in Cabarrus County. This is quite a bit cheaper and I know the best way to go. My other big expense is travel insurance but AIM is still working out the details for this and waiting to hear when this is ready to be purchased. After my blog, asking for financial assistance, a check arrived to cover the cost of both of these. You know who you are and THANK YOU my cheerleader!!
Drum roll please, I am currently at $6,859.49 in support. This includes 4 checks that I am mailing into AIM in the next few days. My cup overflows with your generous gifts to make it a reality for me to take the love of God to the nations. May you continue pray fully considering supporting me, rather one-time or monthly. I am still in need of $8,640.51, to be fully funded and I am praying to be fully funded by the time I launch. So that while on the field I don’t have to even think about the idea of going home due to support. I want you to know that your gifts continue to affirm that this is the exact plan for The Lord on my life, right now in 2013!!
I want to take a bit to share with you about where I am working personally to improve before the Race. This is mainly in the area of a filter and thinking before I just say things. If you know me, even a hint, I have no filter and it can be a gift but a curse. I know The Lord has given me the spiritual gift of boldness and the ability to speak in truth and love. There are many times when the line between truth and love is blurred with my selfish desires to tear others down. I can’t tell you why I say these hateful, hurtful, and not encouraging things to those I love but that I am fighting my flesh. I ask that you please be praying for me in the area of opening my month and the strength to think first and then speak. And PLEASE help keep me accountable, when I say these things, tell me to check myself. As brothers and sisters, we are to account each other for what we do, say, and life in general.
Another area I would like to share is with my intimacy with The Lord and our time alone. I have always been a people person and social butterfly. Doing everything I am invited too and staying very busy. The last couple of months, I have been in The Word and depending on His strength to get me through this season. I continue to spend sweet time with Jesus but NEED MORE!! I begin my day with scripture and end it with scripture but pray to have more in between. As I prepare for The Race, the reality of that Jesus is going to be my only companion, is making this intimacy even more important. That while I am having a hard time here in this season, the next is going to be even more challenging and the enemy is waiting. Please be praying for my time with Jesus to be so rich and encouraging, that I fear nothing of this world.
This week marks my one year anniversary of my first official mission trip. I went to Managua, Nicaragua with FBCM to work with the lovely Carmen Heffner and The Larges’. We worked in a local Christian school there, where they have planted a church. We spent the week basically VBS style, teaching the children about the Bible and sharing the Love of Christ. This trip opened a door and now 6 full time missionaries there are in charge of teaching the bible classes to the entire school. Praise God for this opportunity and how He worked in our team of 5 individuals. I through I was going to work with these kids and we did. But much greater than that we encouraged Carmen, and showed Andy Large, aka The Sick-O! the opportunity at this school. Most of the kids that attend the school are not from Christian homes. I ask you be praying for the team working in Stilecroft Christian School in Managua, Nicaragua.
This is the team I worked with in Nicaragua in March 2012.
Todd Wheeler, Lindsay Collins, me, Cheryl and Curt Markland, Carmen Heffner, Diana and Andy Large.
Drum roll please, I am currently at $6,859.49 in support. This includes 4 checks that I am mailing into AIM in the next few days. My cup overflows with your generous gifts to make it a reality for me to take the love of God to the nations. May you continue pray fully considering supporting me, rather one-time or monthly. I am still in need of $8,640.51, to be fully funded and I am praying to be fully funded by the time I launch. So that while on the field I don’t have to even think about the idea of going home due to support. I want you to know that your gifts continue to affirm that this is the exact plan for The Lord on my life, right now in 2013!!
I want to take a bit to share with you about where I am working personally to improve before the Race. This is mainly in the area of a filter and thinking before I just say things. If you know me, even a hint, I have no filter and it can be a gift but a curse. I know The Lord has given me the spiritual gift of boldness and the ability to speak in truth and love. There are many times when the line between truth and love is blurred with my selfish desires to tear others down. I can’t tell you why I say these hateful, hurtful, and not encouraging things to those I love but that I am fighting my flesh. I ask that you please be praying for me in the area of opening my month and the strength to think first and then speak. And PLEASE help keep me accountable, when I say these things, tell me to check myself. As brothers and sisters, we are to account each other for what we do, say, and life in general.
Another area I would like to share is with my intimacy with The Lord and our time alone. I have always been a people person and social butterfly. Doing everything I am invited too and staying very busy. The last couple of months, I have been in The Word and depending on His strength to get me through this season. I continue to spend sweet time with Jesus but NEED MORE!! I begin my day with scripture and end it with scripture but pray to have more in between. As I prepare for The Race, the reality of that Jesus is going to be my only companion, is making this intimacy even more important. That while I am having a hard time here in this season, the next is going to be even more challenging and the enemy is waiting. Please be praying for my time with Jesus to be so rich and encouraging, that I fear nothing of this world.
This week marks my one year anniversary of my first official mission trip. I went to Managua, Nicaragua with FBCM to work with the lovely Carmen Heffner and The Larges’. We worked in a local Christian school there, where they have planted a church. We spent the week basically VBS style, teaching the children about the Bible and sharing the Love of Christ. This trip opened a door and now 6 full time missionaries there are in charge of teaching the bible classes to the entire school. Praise God for this opportunity and how He worked in our team of 5 individuals. I through I was going to work with these kids and we did. But much greater than that we encouraged Carmen, and showed Andy Large, aka The Sick-O! the opportunity at this school. Most of the kids that attend the school are not from Christian homes. I ask you be praying for the team working in Stilecroft Christian School in Managua, Nicaragua.
This is the team I worked with in Nicaragua in March 2012.
Todd Wheeler, Lindsay Collins, me, Cheryl and Curt Markland, Carmen Heffner, Diana and Andy Large.
“Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”
Deuteronomy 31:6
