this will be short and sweet....On the God tip....we need Him has been the cry of my heart this week. Realizing it, and acting on it! School is busy as it is the end of the semester and we have a guest from Miami at churchg training some of tge leaders. Pray for rest and the ability to keep afloat in the business wave.....same prayers as last week please and for the strength of my roommate and for the increase of people to be drawn to the Father.
Hasta luego!
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Thursday, February 21, 2008
AWEsome
Greetings!
This week I'd would like to share that my heart feels so full and in AWE of all that is going on around me....too much to capture in a brief blog! Basically, school is good and the kids have their fake carnaval at school this Friday but since I am against it I am dressing them as animals from the part of the country we studied! The 7th grade is doing a rap so it should be fun!
Last week we had a guest at church Ron Archer from the US gov't. He was inspiring and next week I am helping with a conference at church with a pastor from Miami. Also a man from Christ Church (JOHN) was here this week meeting with me an others to begin a program with children here to train and educate them naturally and spiritually. Things with that went well and look good.
Spiritually I am excited bc God is really moving here. I have realized when you are aware of how jealous he is toward you and how much he wants to spend time with you, you begin to seek him and yes, find him more. I have had many teachings and readings come to life for me in the last few weeks. It is like a new energy! There have been several people at my school who are so curious about God and cometo me asking questions...yesterday a girl asked me "How do you know when God is talking to you?" I think we make our "mission field" experience seem so big but it is really all about sharing your heart for God with people you see daily!
It's exciting to see people hungry and for me to get hungrier for Him. Imagine being in heaven and singing the same song over and over and over....."holy holy holy is the Lord who was and is and is to come" Don't you think you would get bored?
NO because imagine, everytime you say Holy, He reveals another trait of Himself and you are looking at a new image...WOW
May you be blessed as you think about that.
Prayer requests:
Tracy kidney transplant. Against the devil stuff for Carnaval here in DR. For the plans of John and the program in DR to begin to take shape. For fresh vision and revelation for Kari and me. For Jenn and Dan to come to know the Lord. For an open heart to serve and seek God and for my family especially the protection of my sisters and my mom.
This week I'd would like to share that my heart feels so full and in AWE of all that is going on around me....too much to capture in a brief blog! Basically, school is good and the kids have their fake carnaval at school this Friday but since I am against it I am dressing them as animals from the part of the country we studied! The 7th grade is doing a rap so it should be fun!
Last week we had a guest at church Ron Archer from the US gov't. He was inspiring and next week I am helping with a conference at church with a pastor from Miami. Also a man from Christ Church (JOHN) was here this week meeting with me an others to begin a program with children here to train and educate them naturally and spiritually. Things with that went well and look good.
Spiritually I am excited bc God is really moving here. I have realized when you are aware of how jealous he is toward you and how much he wants to spend time with you, you begin to seek him and yes, find him more. I have had many teachings and readings come to life for me in the last few weeks. It is like a new energy! There have been several people at my school who are so curious about God and cometo me asking questions...yesterday a girl asked me "How do you know when God is talking to you?" I think we make our "mission field" experience seem so big but it is really all about sharing your heart for God with people you see daily!
It's exciting to see people hungry and for me to get hungrier for Him. Imagine being in heaven and singing the same song over and over and over....."holy holy holy is the Lord who was and is and is to come" Don't you think you would get bored?
NO because imagine, everytime you say Holy, He reveals another trait of Himself and you are looking at a new image...WOW
May you be blessed as you think about that.
Prayer requests:
Tracy kidney transplant. Against the devil stuff for Carnaval here in DR. For the plans of John and the program in DR to begin to take shape. For fresh vision and revelation for Kari and me. For Jenn and Dan to come to know the Lord. For an open heart to serve and seek God and for my family especially the protection of my sisters and my mom.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Feliz Dia de amor y amistad!!!
Felicidades!!! Happy Valentine's Day to all readers of this very profound blog sight!
Today I would like to impart to you the definition of LOVE. What is love? Is love sex? Is love obsession? Is love encountered by one who buys us things? Is love always happy?
Things that make you go hmm....
Well today I felt love when I thought of my mother, my sisters, and truly as I watched the children from the barrio mixed with the prvate school kids as they played basketball and soccer in an anti-drug program. I saw that when a person cares for another and intimacy is developed and formed that goes beyond touching or purchasing candy and jewlery. I saw that if one human being can seek the heart of another human being, that intimacy is inexplicable...and to me that is love. But where does it come from?
I am beginning to realize that without the knowledge of christ we can never truly understand love. He IS love. He who actually made himself less so we might have a chance to forever live, came to earth for one purpose, to DIE for me and you....that is LOVE.
I am truly humbled by this as I am daily reminded that I fail at expressing my love to many in my life and yet I am being called to love those who are even my enemies...why bc it is not about me, or you or anyone, it is about Christ. The perfect love which cast out all fear and would lay down His life for another. Incredible. I pray EVERYDAY we would celebrate this love not just today!
Prayers:
Please pray for John as he will be here next week with me to set up a possible program in Bonoa with families. Pray that my friend Danny has a safe flight here to speak about his school. Pray as the development of my bball team here brings kids from various social classes together which is a HUGE victory in this country. Pray as I try to delve deeper into my study time and prayer. Pray for my friend Tracy and her health(kidneys). Pray for the church that it would meet the needs of the people and be in line with the heart of God and His will in Santo Domingo. Pray for my sisters as I know they need Christ more each day.
May you be truly blessed and transformed by the power of HIs LOVE.
Today I would like to impart to you the definition of LOVE. What is love? Is love sex? Is love obsession? Is love encountered by one who buys us things? Is love always happy?
Things that make you go hmm....
Well today I felt love when I thought of my mother, my sisters, and truly as I watched the children from the barrio mixed with the prvate school kids as they played basketball and soccer in an anti-drug program. I saw that when a person cares for another and intimacy is developed and formed that goes beyond touching or purchasing candy and jewlery. I saw that if one human being can seek the heart of another human being, that intimacy is inexplicable...and to me that is love. But where does it come from?
I am beginning to realize that without the knowledge of christ we can never truly understand love. He IS love. He who actually made himself less so we might have a chance to forever live, came to earth for one purpose, to DIE for me and you....that is LOVE.
I am truly humbled by this as I am daily reminded that I fail at expressing my love to many in my life and yet I am being called to love those who are even my enemies...why bc it is not about me, or you or anyone, it is about Christ. The perfect love which cast out all fear and would lay down His life for another. Incredible. I pray EVERYDAY we would celebrate this love not just today!
Prayers:
Please pray for John as he will be here next week with me to set up a possible program in Bonoa with families. Pray that my friend Danny has a safe flight here to speak about his school. Pray as the development of my bball team here brings kids from various social classes together which is a HUGE victory in this country. Pray as I try to delve deeper into my study time and prayer. Pray for my friend Tracy and her health(kidneys). Pray for the church that it would meet the needs of the people and be in line with the heart of God and His will in Santo Domingo. Pray for my sisters as I know they need Christ more each day.
May you be truly blessed and transformed by the power of HIs LOVE.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Facts, Comparisons and Life
For those of you whole aren't so keen on reading just skimming...here are the basics; this one is fixin to be a long entry!
School is good classes aregood and you can see the trip photos from Bani sand dunes and salt fields. Also I have been referee for soccer and bball games at the school so hangin with the high school kids has been interesting and fun! I had an opportunity to speak with som parents and share some things whuch was very nice.
The community center help still is on hold I guess and so I have been trying to contact YWAM organization here to follow up on what I believe is supposed to be a connection with them and today I finally found some info so that is happy news.
Prayers: Pray that I may continue tobe open and rested and a good listener and my mouth (public enemy #1) shut!
Pray for my church Nueva Generacion
Pray for my roommate, the country in Feb., witnessing opportunities and my friend Tracy (health)
Pray that my family is wel and my finances for the upcoming months are ok.
Pray for the lepracy community here and the work of our school in connection with the barrio this months they will be coming together for a drug/addiction awareness program.
FOR THOSE WHO ACTUALLY WANT TO KNOW WHAT I AM THINKING! READ ON
ok so I have seemingly come into some facs that i have been pondering, like thefact that the eagle breaks off its beak after 40 years and waits and grows a new one and can live another 30 years! or the fact that after a caterpillar eats ll it can store, it goes into a cacoon (waiting) period and becomes a beautiful butterfly, or the fact that Gomer in the bible was a prostitue and she had 3 children out of wedlock and was bought back by her husband and couldn't have relations with him for a certain period of time ....all of this leads me to the thought of the WAITING period. What exactly is the power in that? I mean it seems to be a eriod os transformation, renewal, learning to live in a different manner tn you have been used to even 40 years! I am thinking in terms of acomparison of our lives where we all want to know that who we are tday is it or where we live or even how we look...the reality is in all three situations, the period after the waiting each the eagle, butterfly, and Gomer all were better than they weretheir new selves was more vibrant, wise, srong etc.
There must be power in the waiting periods when we have to call on CHrist to be our source, sustanance and hope. WHen we can't see clearly and aren't the top of our class or the best at eveything...maybe we learn a bunch as the loser in a game or the working out of confusion teaches perseverance or humilty? Who really has it all together anyway?
Enough rambling, I m so pleased to write that the more I know the less i know and the things I want to do I don't do and you know what...right now this is th best education I hav ever gotten and wouldn't you know the irony is....it's FREE! And so m I !!!! For whom the son sets free is free ibdeed...so those who know me can know I am in a pensive way today and others...they probably never made it past the prauer requests. Peace
School is good classes aregood and you can see the trip photos from Bani sand dunes and salt fields. Also I have been referee for soccer and bball games at the school so hangin with the high school kids has been interesting and fun! I had an opportunity to speak with som parents and share some things whuch was very nice.
The community center help still is on hold I guess and so I have been trying to contact YWAM organization here to follow up on what I believe is supposed to be a connection with them and today I finally found some info so that is happy news.
Prayers: Pray that I may continue tobe open and rested and a good listener and my mouth (public enemy #1) shut!
Pray for my church Nueva Generacion
Pray for my roommate, the country in Feb., witnessing opportunities and my friend Tracy (health)
Pray that my family is wel and my finances for the upcoming months are ok.
Pray for the lepracy community here and the work of our school in connection with the barrio this months they will be coming together for a drug/addiction awareness program.
FOR THOSE WHO ACTUALLY WANT TO KNOW WHAT I AM THINKING! READ ON
ok so I have seemingly come into some facs that i have been pondering, like thefact that the eagle breaks off its beak after 40 years and waits and grows a new one and can live another 30 years! or the fact that after a caterpillar eats ll it can store, it goes into a cacoon (waiting) period and becomes a beautiful butterfly, or the fact that Gomer in the bible was a prostitue and she had 3 children out of wedlock and was bought back by her husband and couldn't have relations with him for a certain period of time ....all of this leads me to the thought of the WAITING period. What exactly is the power in that? I mean it seems to be a eriod os transformation, renewal, learning to live in a different manner tn you have been used to even 40 years! I am thinking in terms of acomparison of our lives where we all want to know that who we are tday is it or where we live or even how we look...the reality is in all three situations, the period after the waiting each the eagle, butterfly, and Gomer all were better than they weretheir new selves was more vibrant, wise, srong etc.
There must be power in the waiting periods when we have to call on CHrist to be our source, sustanance and hope. WHen we can't see clearly and aren't the top of our class or the best at eveything...maybe we learn a bunch as the loser in a game or the working out of confusion teaches perseverance or humilty? Who really has it all together anyway?
Enough rambling, I m so pleased to write that the more I know the less i know and the things I want to do I don't do and you know what...right now this is th best education I hav ever gotten and wouldn't you know the irony is....it's FREE! And so m I !!!! For whom the son sets free is free ibdeed...so those who know me can know I am in a pensive way today and others...they probably never made it past the prauer requests. Peace
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