How did I get so lucky?

It is such a blessing to be God's hands and feet in the mission field.  I love sharing the love of Christ!

Girls in need of Serious Prayer!

These girls are in need of serious prayer.  After they saw the drama presented by our team, we had an opportunity to talk.  They really had something to share.  They felt they could speak to me because they felt like God had sent us there for them.

I met these girls in a school in Honduras.  All have been through serious abuse.  I will not go into detail, but suffice it to say that the person inflicting the abuse is in their family.  They cannot tell anyone or go to the authorities due to the specific circumstances. 

They shall remain nameless but God knows who they are.  They are good Christian girls.

They need strength and courage to make it through this difficult time and to move forward.

They need to know God's unconditional love and they need to feel safe.  

School Program in Honduras

We had the opportunity to go to several schools and I was able to speak to all the children and share with them about God's redemptive grace through Jesus Christ.  Our team then shared a short drama with music about a teenager who gets lost through abuse, sex, drugs, and alcohol.  The teenager finally turns to Christ and changes her life.

New Life Children's home in Jalaca, Honduras

This is my beautiful Sarahi.  She lives at the New Life Home for Children in Jalaca, Honduras.  Her smile brightened every single day!  There was nothing better than walking down the stairs and watching her scream "Tia Nancy, Tia Nancy" as she ran into my arms.  

Sarahi loves to dance, sing and laugh.  She was a blast!!

This is Sarahi on the last day.  We had the opportunity to provide lice treatments for all the girls and my friend Lana (who is a super make up artist to the stars) gave each of the girls a haircut.  It was a wonderful day.  All the girls felt like princesses!   

This was our last day at the orphanage and she was very sad that we were leaving.  She sat by my bag and pouted.

Josue snuck on the bus for one last hug as we were leaving.  He was one of the tough little bullies that was in desperate need of serious love and attention.  And God sent me there to give it to him!!  We had such an awesome time sharing the story of Jesus with these boys and then watching the change begin to happen in them as they accepted Jesus into their hearts!

Pray for her and all the children at the New Life Home for Children.  This home is a blessing to these children.  The economic situation in Honduras is very bad.  Most families cannot afford to feed their children, clothe them, or send them to school.  Most families have to allow their children to enter a government program called INFA.  This program actually takes the children away from their homes and places them in a building that resembles a federal prison.  Barbed wire, metal bars on windows, dozens of bunk beds in one large open area are just the tip of the iceberg when describing this program.

New Life Children Home is making a difference for some of those children.  Approximately 30 children are given a safe place to live.  There are no more than 3-4 children per room and they have a school onsite.  So, each child is receiving an education, three meals a day, and uniforms to wear all from a Christian foundation.  Here the kids get to be kids...

Pray for the children, the people teaching them and raising them, also pray for the parents.  It cannot be easy to let your child go because you cannot provide for them.

Let's catch up on 2008...

As most of you know, I am fairly new to this blogging phenomenon.  But I figure it is time to get with the program since everyone else is doing it...

Hopefully, this will make it easier for all of you to keep up with my adventures and to continue to pray for my ministry in  missions.

This year has been a blessed year.  

In June 2008, I was able to go to Colombia with a team from Winnsboro, Texas.  We served in Cartagena, Colombia.  We had the privilege of putting on a VBS for the children in Ciudadela 2000 and in Arjona.  We also worshipped in the newly planted church in Villa Hermosa.  The people of Colombia were very open to receive the word of God.  We had a pretty amazing group of individuals!  God totally blessed us during our time there!

Then in August 2008, I served in Jalaca, Honduras.  A team from My church (Fellowship Church) went down and spent a week onsite at the New Life Orphan Home.  It was one of the toughest weeks.  The conditions were pretty crazy...but the children were so amazing.  There are so many stories to tell.  I will have to go back and cover some of those stories individually because I need to ask for prayer on a lot of them.

Then in September 2008, God made one of my biggest dreams come true.  I went to Africa.  Those who know me well know that my heart has always desired to travel to Africa.  That was my dream...but God's dream was sooooo much bigger than mine!  He took me to Africa with a mission...with His purpose...it was awesome.  I will share more details about this trip in a separate post.  More to come...