We had such a special time in prayer and communion just thanking Jesus for what He has done for us and how even though there are many of us we are one in His body. My teammate Kacie shared the verse 1 Corinthians 12:12 “The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body….� It was just a great reminder that though we are different we all play a role and we are all one in Christ. Then she began to tell people what part of the body on our team she felt they were and why. It was a special time that we had as a team. Then I spoke on the blood of Jesus and shared what the Lord has been putting on my heart lately. I am just so grateful that even though I am such a mess of a person when I accepted Christ into my heart as my Savior he did just what He promised; He healed my empty heart, He restored my purpose in life, He delivered me from the devil, He changed my life, He filled me up with His Holy Spirit, He protected me from the valley of the shadow of death, He made me an overcomer and most of all He saved my life. Now I can have a relationship with the one true living God that calls me His son. There is nothing greater in this life than that relationship that I have with Him, my Dad. Thank you all so much for your prayers and support. I am so blessed by all the donations I have received and the encouraging words. Thank you for the anonymous donation that I received recently that blew me away. Thank you to all that have supported me in prayer and for those that support me monthly. I pray the Lord blesses you with a double portion this year in not only finances, but in your relationship with Him. I am so humbled how the Lord provides through the body of Christ. I am getting closer thank the Lord! $9,300 out of the $14,400 that I need to continue to do ministry. It is because of all of you thank you so much. I love and miss you all God blessJ
Hello everyone greetings from Oradea, Romania. We have been working with Caminul Felix this month which is a Christian Organization that takes in abandoned children and gives them parents for life and a healthy loving community http://www.caminulfelix.ro/index.php?hl=en . Please take a look at the website and keep these amazing children in your prayers. We are helping to build some of the houses so they can take in more children. Our typical days look like construction in the morning, which ranges from digging holes, putting up dry wall, and cleaning work sites. When we are finished with work we have about an hour and half to clean up then we hang out with the children for a few hours. We play games and teach them songs, but mainly just spend quality time with them. I keep saying children, but the ages actually range from four years old to eighteen years old. Each house has about eleven to sixteen kids with parents that are with them for life. It is an incredible ministry that takes children off the streets of Romania and gives them a stable family.
These are the houses we are working on this month
This was a day of digging…yea we are pretty tuff thats faaa shooo.
Katherine working on some insulation
I wanted to write this blog to update you all about what I am doing this month, but mostly because of what the Lord has been teaching me lately. My team of six is working with another team this month of four. In total there are seven girls and three boys in this hostel that we are at. The Lord has really blessed us this month though, we went from India and Nepal where we learned how to take cold bucket showers and buying bottled water for drinking to where we are staying now, which is a hostel in Romania that has clean and hot water. The hostel we are staying at is beautiful and we are the only ones staying here right now so we feel really blessed.
Yesterday we took communion together as a team. Each night two team members are assigned to cook dinner and last night it was my teammate Kacie and I. For our meal I cooked a Farino family favorite called Sicilian supper (Miss you Mom thanks for the recipe we nailed itJ) and we had bread and wine for communion.
This picture is for you mom:) Sicilian supper took me back to your kitchen.
Molto Bene:)
This is my family breaking bread together and taking communion:)
This past week the Lord has just been putting it on my heart what His blood has done for me. Whenever I think about the power that is in His blood it is just overwhelming to me. The blood of Jesus has the power to heal, restore, deliver, change, fill up, protect, overcome and most of all save. The Lord has put this verse on my heart Revelation 12:11 “They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and the Word of their testimony.� This is so powerful because it is referring to the end times and the spiritual battle of the Devil and his demons vs. the head angel Michael and other angels. When the enemy is thrown to the earth it says not that the angels overcame him, but that we did by the blood of Jesus and the word of our testimony.
There are many times that our team has been attacked with lies from the enemy. The devil will remind us of past mistakes, or hurt feelings that still haunt some. We have been learning as a team to remind the devil what the Bible says the Blood of Jesus has done for us in our lives. When these lies come just claiming that the blood of Jesus has made us overcomers and that His blood has saved us from the sin we were stuck in. I just feel like when one becomes a believer they often forget just what the blood of Jesus and the word of their testimony has done. The enemy attacks and attacks and sometimes people don’t know how to fight back when all they have to do is remind the devil that the blood of the lamb has saved them. By our application of the blood, the devil loses his opportunity to harass us, lie to us, hurt us and invade our homes. The devil cannot pass through the blood.
