Saturday, February 22, 2014

Graduated but still a Student

A little more than a week has past since graduating from the Discipleship  Training School and I am still processing and reflecting on all that The Lord  has done in 5 months. 

During the lecture phase God complete transformed my heart in ways that only He could. 

I had a new understanding on love & how much unconditional love he has for us. I began hear Gods voice (no I'm not some weirdo, God is always speaking  and he might even be speaking to you right now!) I started to see God as a  father, a mother, a lover, and even as a friend. Ultimately I grew deeper in my relationship with him while He constantly poured out his love on me.
During the outreach phase I was stretched and challenged in my faith  yet I held tight to the promises that the King of Kings has given us. 

While traveling about the 10:40 window of Mexico our team served in a variety of places. These included teaching basic health in schools, doing youth programs in town plazas, working physically for recently planted churches,  preaching and doing children programs in persecuted churches, hiking up mountain sides to find people who did't yet know Christ, and much more.
As we were lead by the Holy Spirit we planted seeds and interceded for town and also saw many salvations and miracles.

God's goodness doesn't stop on graduation day. The best advice that a speaker told us  is not to graduate but to keep being a student and keep learning. 

My next step is exactly that: I'm returning to the University of the Nations in September to do a nine month intensive School of Biblical Studies. 

Thank you so much for your support throughout the past 5 months - lives were changed because of you. Thank You!
(The migrant school, where many children received lots of well-needed love!)

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Mexican Indian Reservations

These past few weeks my team and I have been in a state of Oaxaca. We traveled to a few different places within the "Indian reservation."  All though we have been working with different indigenous groups, including the Triqui and Mixteco, people I've been learning to have a heart of praise in every situation. 
(A woman from the Triqui tribe & I)
Currently we are staying in a church building in a town called San Pedro Pedro. For my bed I pushed together two church pews and added lots of blankets to keep warm during the night. 
(The pastor laughed and said, "me gusta tu cunita!" (I like your little crib))
We don't have flush toilets and we have been taking  "bucket showers." 
But through every situation I am learning to have a heart of praise. I praise God for giving me the opera unity   to support the missionaries in the work they are doing. It is a dream of mine come true to work with the unreached people groups. And here I am sharing the gospel with people who don't know Christ!
Follow the link below to watch how God used us in the town of Cuevas!
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