It's About the Children: A New Season

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

A New Season

Dear Family, Friends & Supporters,
First I want to thank you for all the prayers and support you have poured into my life throughout the years. I would not be where I am today without you.
I am so excited about this new season God is moving me into. As many of you know when I returned from Africa 5 years ago I returned with a heart that ached for the children I met there. I have spent the past 5 years allowing God to use you and others to prepare me for the open door that is now before me to go to Mozambique, Africa for 3 months to serve Pastors Isaac & Carol Williams.
During the 3 months in Mozambique I will be working with these great leaders at the HPC campus. I will be training their leaders in everything from basic computer skills and budgeting finance to helping with their children’s ministry and anything else they need.
Just to tell you a little bit about what goes on in Mozambique; there are 500 children fed daily, 250 of those are in Nkobe, which is where I will be living. Some of these children are single orphan, some are double orphan, but most are living in vulnerable situations. As a church we have about 100 young people who attend youth service each week, 40 women involved in our women’s ministry and 140 adults and 270 children who attend Sunday morning services. As you can see in Mozambique the children out number the adults at a 2:1 ratio. Where as churches here in the states the adults out number the children at a 6:1 ratio.
Please join me in making a difference in Mozambique, Africa. I am asking that you prayerfully consider partnering with me so I can serve our campus and its pastors in Mozambique. My airfare, living expenses and travel insurance will be $7,500.00 for those 3 months and I must raise $3,000.00 of that amount by December 1st so I can purchase my plane ticket. The remaining $4,500.00 will be due by January 15th and this amount will cover my living expenses while I am there. If God is leading you to unite with me in this new season you can give online at www.goglobalmissions.com or make checks payable to Go Global Missions or Healing Place Church and return to me at my home address. Any donation you make will be tax deductible and very much appreciated. Please expect updates from me as I move toward the goal He has set before me. Thank you again for taking the time to consider me in this next part of my journey. Your prayers and support are going to mean so much.
All for His Glory!!!!
Becky Perkins
17870 Lake Azalea Dr., Baton Rouge, LA 70817
Here are a few ways you can keep up with me; blog address: www.wheresbecky.blogspot.com, twitter: beck1976, or on Facebook: beck1976

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My Testimony

I grew up in a Christian home where I was drug to church every time the doors were open. I spent my childhood trying to follow the Christian ways that my parents had drilled into my head, but when I was 10 I made a choice all on my own to accept Christ as my Savior and follow and serve Him for the rest of my life. I continued to follow after God, and when I was 15 I knew God was calling me into full time ministry. In my mind I believed their were only 2 options for me; a children’s pastor or a youth pastor. For 10 years I went around and around and around because I let fear stop me from doing what God created me to do. Finally I got tired of not going anywhere and I asked God what is it that you want me to do. He told me He wanted me on the mission field. This was very hard for me to hear because I spent my entire life with a fear of leaving the United States, I grew up saying I was never going to another country. I put aside all my fears and said O.K. God I will go. My first trip out of the United States God sends me by myself, I cried for a week before I left, I cried on the plane the whole way down to Honduras, but once I got there and I experienced what God had waiting for me it was greater than anything I had experienced in the States. After setting foot on foreign soil I knew thats where I was spending the rest of my life. I still was not completely open to what God had for me I still had some restrictions. We had a sermon series called The HPC Apprentice; 4 people out of the church were chosen and I was 1 of the 4, we spent several weeks just doing whatever was asked of us, serving the church, serving the community and then at the end the church voted on who they thought should win. I did not win, but the guy who did win won a trip to Swaziland, Africa. After finding out what the prize was I was so glad I did not win, because I had also spent my entire life saying I was never going to Africa. Well, over the next 6 months God begins to work on me and all of a sudden I am now telling my sister I really want to go to Africa. My sister had a friend who was going to Africa in 2 months so she called her up and told her I wanted to go to Africa, so she said let me see what I can do. Next thing I know I’m receiving a phone call saying I hear you want to go to Africa. Within a month I had raised every penny I needed for the trip and within another month I was on a plane to Africa. Do you know I made it to Africa before the guy who won the trip to Africa? When God has a plan He makes away. So 2005 was the first year I went to Africa, I went home from that trip with a calling on my life to reach, serve, nurture and love the children of Africa. I spent six months living in Mozambique, Africa I returned with an even greater passion to reach the unforgotten children around the world. After returning from Africa I co-founded Red Thread Ministries to help those who are without means to help themselves. We work with children domestic and international, sharing the love of Jesus. For more information and ways to get invovled checkout our website at www.redthreadministries.org