Sometimes the world just seems to have so much need that you don't know where to start and the only answer is to eat ice cream and run in the rain. But then in the prophets I read promise after promise of coming restoration. Actually, Isaiah 49:8-13 is going to become part of the DNA to our ministry. That's I remember that there are things to be doing now, but even so God never asked me to save the world, he just asked me to love him and obey him.
I always get into the sad moods when I'm alone, and it only takes a good 47 seconds being with people to come back to life. God thank you for friends... and for rain and ice cream.
In about 6 weeks we will be leaving for a two-month counseling outreach. Nothing is finalized but hopefully I will be going to Leticia!!!!!!!! Leticia is the city that is on the boarder of Peru and Brazil and is in the Amazons. From there we would enter Brazil. I'm so excited, and there is so much need for family counseling there! Plus I would have to go with my friend Desteni because she'll have to translate into Portuguese! Going to the Amazons has been a dream of mine for 6 years; ever since geogrophy class when my professor lectured about it. What exciting news!
P.S. Random thought for the day: If anyone has a grand piano laying around and can come up with a way to get it to Colombia, I would be happy to receive!
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Esperanzas de Vida
Ana Cristina Rincon and I have been praying about starting a ministry for pregnant women considering abortion for a year now. The dream would be to start there and expand the ministry to include adoption programs, working with prostitutes and family counseling. After so much prayer it seems like things are finally starting to happen...
BIG NEWS: This week the director from the similar ministry in Tyler, TX, is coming this week to visit with us and do a conference with our school!!! We have started saving to buy a house or a farm to house girls during their pregnancy so we can give them counsel and a safe place to live while they decide if they want to keep their baby or find a family to adopt. Friday Cristina and I lead intercession for our base, and afterwards two students said they want to commit to our ministry and as we're starting they want to study majors that will be useful (like nursing).
Today I set up an email for the ministry. Just doing that made it feel like this is for real, more than a dream. But it's also a bit overwhelming, we don't know where or how we're going to start meeting women. So please pray:
• that we will have guidance and that our time with the Tyler director will give us good ideas
• an opportunity for Cristinan to visit the ministry in Tyler
• support from local churches and ministries in Medellin
• for more workers
• #1, that soon we would meet our first pregnant woman to start loving and supporting
BIG NEWS: This week the director from the similar ministry in Tyler, TX, is coming this week to visit with us and do a conference with our school!!! We have started saving to buy a house or a farm to house girls during their pregnancy so we can give them counsel and a safe place to live while they decide if they want to keep their baby or find a family to adopt. Friday Cristina and I lead intercession for our base, and afterwards two students said they want to commit to our ministry and as we're starting they want to study majors that will be useful (like nursing).
Today I set up an email for the ministry. Just doing that made it feel like this is for real, more than a dream. But it's also a bit overwhelming, we don't know where or how we're going to start meeting women. So please pray:
• that we will have guidance and that our time with the Tyler director will give us good ideas
• an opportunity for Cristinan to visit the ministry in Tyler
• support from local churches and ministries in Medellin
• for more workers
• #1, that soon we would meet our first pregnant woman to start loving and supporting
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