It's About the Children

Saturday, August 4, 2007

HAMBURGER

We went to a pasta restaurant for dinner tonight, but some how I ended up with a cheese burger! Imagine that!! It was not half bad, just not an American cheeseburger. We had a good ol belly laugh at Jay trying to order his egg hamburger in Portuguese!!! Just try to imagine the pink panther saying hamburger and that was Jay!!!:) We love you Jay!!!! Needless to say this trip has not been without the laughs and we are just getting started!!!

Preparation

We spent the afternoon sorting through all of our supplies getting

ready for our Awesome week!

Tomorrow we will split into 2 groups: 1 group will be doing the adult service and the other group will be doing the kids service.

It's going to be awesome!

I'm Back In Africa

It was dark when we got here last night, so this is what I saw first thing this morning as Traci pulled open the curtains and blinded me! What a view!!!!!! For all of you that were worried I did get to take a shower this morning! It was still brown but at least it was hot, no shower had ever felt so good!!!!! It's not so easy bathing with bottled water. We are about to meet Isaac & Carol for lunch and then we will spend the rest of the day preparing for tomorrow and next week. PRAY PRAY PRAY!!!!!!!!!

Friday, August 3, 2007

We Made It!!!

Well we left the church a little after 9am on Thursday and we arrived in Maputo at about 2:00pm Baton Rouge time on Friday, 9pm Mozambique time. We made it safe and sound! We have had no problems at all (thank you for all your prayers). When we arrived here we were missing one suitcase of supplies. Please be praying that it will arrive on the first flight in tomorrow. It is almost 1am here and I am waiting for the water to be fixed so that I can take a shower. We started off with no water, now we have brown, cold, water; praying it turns clear and hot real quick! This is an awesome team God has put togther, I know He has awesome things in store for this week! PRAY! PRAY! PRAY!

Thursday, August 2, 2007

Finally Packed

Well it is about 1:30am and I just finally finished packing. I'm ready to go! WooHoo! Who is ready for a 19 hour plane ride??!!!!

No matter how many times I go, every time I'm just as excited as the first time I went. Their is just something about being in Africa and seeing all the kids, that just helps put life into perspective. There is no place else I would rather be! I Love it!

Here is a little trivia question for my Danville Buddies!!!!!

Who can name this snake????

I Love You Guys!

PRAY! PRAY! PRAY!

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