Later...
I just got encouragement from the nursing director too!
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Africa please!
In order to graduate from the nursing program we have to do a community service project. Well, I am working on trying to go to Africa and do an immunization clinic. Please be praying about this and that it will come together. My heart is aching to do this, and I’m really excited about the possibility.
Friday, June 24, 2011
blogging purely
I've decided to be more of a blogger. So we'll see how consistent I am...
I'm reading Keep a Quiet Heart by Elisabeth Elliot which is basically her book of what would be blogs. She talks about what purity means to will one thing. That is the last thing that defines me. I have so many desires for my life. Sometimes I think I would be saddened if Jesus came just yet, because I feel like there are things that I would be disappointed I missed. I know so much of me is made for nursing school and I plan to use those skills for kingdom purposes, but I'm not of one purpose there. Although it would be great to say my only real love was Jesus. I still want to discover the meaning of two becoming one in all of it's depths. I want to know these things. I want to experience these things. They keep me from being pure of heart though. Which Elisabeth says keeps us from peace. Well that explains a lot. I don't know what to do with this
news worthy
Update time.
I got into nursing school! I'm waiting to hear back from one that's closer to home but I am going to nursing school in the fall.
The number of medications I am on is decreasing and I'm feeling healthier, most of the time.
Jesus is just so good. I struggle to understand why I watch others being blessed financially while I am hindered in ministry and blessing others because I can't pay my bills.
That's what's going on with me these days.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Writing poetry again apparently...
You see me
In a sea of faces you find me
In the lonely desolate night you comfort me
I am who I am not because of what I do or say
But I am who I am because of what you did for me and what you say about me
When I feel lost and like I'm not good enough
You see me and remind me to made me to be me
And that's who I am.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Life ugh
So big prayer request. I got a MASSIVE pay cut at work. So I'm now trying to figure out what to do and I think I'll be starting my own business. So please be praying that God blesses this venture and gives me clients. I will be doing a bookkeeping/payroll/med management service for adult family homes in Wenatchee.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Tanzania!
There's a song I learned when I was in Uganda in January with a phrase in the chorus that says "The Spirit of the Lord is moving in Africa." I see that to be true, as God is calling me back. As most of you know, I am doing a ministry internship at my church this year that encompasses Bible training and discipleship, and hands on ministry experience. We are doing several local and out of state outreaches and then we will be going to Tanzania, Africa (ironically enough, Uganda's neighbor) in March 2011. The team will be made up of the interns I am working with, so by March, they'll be my second family which will be the polar opposite from last time when I didn't meet them until I was in Uganda.
Although the emphasis isn't medicine on this trip, as most of my other mission trips have been, I will get to be working with the Maasai people at a YWAM base. In addition to my calling to medicine in the mission field, which I shared with you in last year's letter, while I was in Uganda, I learned my calling is also towards tribal/rural ministry. That's what we will be doing! So I'm excited to grow in this second avenue of the calling God has given me.
I am excited to invite you all again to join me on this experience too. I was so encouraged to see how God used many of you as a crucial part of the last trip. My vision for future ministry is in many ways becoming a reality through you. I feel like the calling I have also includes creatively involving those at home.
I loved the prayer sponsor-a-day last trip and I felt like it helped us feel like a team. I am still working on finishing the events summary; it has been a rather emotional journey to complete. I want to do something similar. Instead of a day of the trip though, I'm going to ask you to sponsor a portion of the trip such as travel or health. Details are on the prayer sponsor form.
I would also like to ask that if you feel led to share a word of encouragement or a funny story or experience for me to share with the team during the trip that you would consider supporting us in that way also.
Financially we are working as a team to raise support, and as I am writing this I feel like I am just supposed to ask you to pray and support in one of the three ways, but I'm not going to share the amount I need because I really only want you to give financially if God is calling you to. The same goes with the other two ways to support.
So PRAY and then...
1) Be a prayer sponsor and watch the Spirit of the Lord move your heart towards Africa with mine.
2) Be an encourager, send us a letter or story to help us through the trip and keep our eyes on Jesus
3) Financially support us as the Lord leads you to give.
Any responses can be sent to enlighten.05@gmail.com
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Taste and see that the Lord tastes like coffee
Tonight God showed me a slice of His heart. It was bitter, I don't understand how it can be good, but I know that God is good, and so it must be good. For much of my life up to about 18 this was about how I felt about coffee. I thought it tasted bitter, like dirt to be quite frank, but I knew it had to be good or adults wouldn't go so nuts over it so I pretended to love it, got a job at Starbucks and eventually learned to love it. I'm praying that will be the end of this journey of seeing God's heart.
When I went to Uganda in January, my favorite place we went was Uganda Jesus Village (UJV). The kids there are mostly kids that were rescued or escaped from the 20 year long civil war within Uganda led be he LRA (Lord's Resistance Army). This rebel movement would take kids as soldiers and often in the indoctrination process would force them to kill their own families. This way the kids feel as though even if they could escape and go home, they have no home to go to - extended family wouldn't want them either because of the betrayal. These are the kinds of kids you meet at UJV. You would never know it though. They were so much fun.
When we went there we were asked if we could do a medical clinic because most of the kids had just recently come back from the bush and were sick and the orphanage couldn't pay for all the hospital bills. So we brought our supplies and dove in. We learned the reason these kids were in the bush (up north, rugged rural Uganda) is because The original organization running UJV had sent the kids to their home villages and were keeping the support money coming in. So these kids were sent to elderly grandparents who can't even feed themselves, villages were they had no family and no would take them in. There was one boy that was his story, no one would take him. He was left to try to find food in the dry season. After many days of not even finding grass worth eating he resorted to eating handfuls of dirt at a time just to satisfy the hunger pangs. This image stuck in my head. PRAISE THE LORD there were some awesome people from Canada Kira and Cameron a brother/sister duo who had been there on a mission trip before went back and found out what had happened. They rangled up their savings and any other money they could find and got a bus and sent that bus to pick up all of the 70-80 kids that were there.
The kids were back safe and when were there all but 2 had been safely recovered. I think it turned out one of them went back to family willing and able to take him in and the other was later recovered. We treated LOTS of malaria and de-wormed all the kids.
Fast forward 8 months. Money has run out. Cameron is now running things and his sister sent out this plea
"I write you this letter with a plea in my heart!! I hate asking for money yet if we do not be honest and tell you where we are at then we can't give you the opportunity to show these kids your love! We are in desperate need right now of financial support. Since January of 2009 my brother and I have been solely responsible for providing the money to feed and educate the children. Along our journey we have had a number of people who have given and we are so thankful for you!! We have 67 children who need a sponsor if you would like to have a child you can provide for monthly or you can give just one time!!
I need to be honest because it has come to the place where the kids are going with out food because we have no money to purchase food. The school sent them home because there was no money for school fees this term. Even worse is we had one of our children Peter fell out of a tree and hurt himself badly requiring numerous stitches and x-rays. Since we were back in Canada our team in Africa had no funds to pay the hospital and Peter was left to bleed while Jennifer ran around Kampala trying to find the money. See in Africa the health care is different then ours where they will not even touch you until the bill is paid.
Our hearts really break for these children. We have done all we can with the help of God. Even though we worry daily of these children we know that God will some how take care of them. As much as we love them God in Heaven loves them more! At this point we know we will not be able to continue with out your help!! I know each of your have a heart for these children. I feel so humbled to have to ask you for your help. Yet at the same time I am excited to give you the opportunity to sow into the orphans and the widows. The Lord talks through out scripture about the blessing of giving to the orphans. Prov 21: " Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor will also cry himself and not be heard." Then scripture tells us that we will be abundantly blessed if we help the poor!!
Please respond and help us in any amount even $20 goes to provide a meal. If you can give any amount please send me a message and I will direct you. Thank you so much for responding to the cry of these precious children!! I hate to ask but we need your help more then ever!!"
So I have had this rolling around in my head not sure what to do with because, I'm an intern with medical bills out the window. So I prayed and I started asking others to pray. Then tonight before college group started Pastor Nick asked me how things were going. I told him I had gotten the numbers right it's now 62 kids between the ages of 8-20. That was all I had. As the college group service started the topic was feeding the hungry. He was talking about spiritually hungry. My heart didn't heart that at all and so this starts snowballing and by the end of the service I am weeping because I see that kid sitting on the dirt so hungry all he can do is eat handfuls of dirt and all that he has been saved from the life he's enjoyed for the last few months of SAFETY is now on the brink of falling apart and he could be eating dirt again tomorrow. I know God's heart was breaking with mine and my heart broke BECAUSE HIS was already broken, what I can't reconcile yet is He is the almighty awesome powerful of God who has redeemed me. He's healed me. I have seen His power. So why can't He feed His children?
When I went to Uganda in January, my favorite place we went was Uganda Jesus Village (UJV). The kids there are mostly kids that were rescued or escaped from the 20 year long civil war within Uganda led be he LRA (Lord's Resistance Army). This rebel movement would take kids as soldiers and often in the indoctrination process would force them to kill their own families. This way the kids feel as though even if they could escape and go home, they have no home to go to - extended family wouldn't want them either because of the betrayal. These are the kinds of kids you meet at UJV. You would never know it though. They were so much fun.
When we went there we were asked if we could do a medical clinic because most of the kids had just recently come back from the bush and were sick and the orphanage couldn't pay for all the hospital bills. So we brought our supplies and dove in. We learned the reason these kids were in the bush (up north, rugged rural Uganda) is because The original organization running UJV had sent the kids to their home villages and were keeping the support money coming in. So these kids were sent to elderly grandparents who can't even feed themselves, villages were they had no family and no would take them in. There was one boy that was his story, no one would take him. He was left to try to find food in the dry season. After many days of not even finding grass worth eating he resorted to eating handfuls of dirt at a time just to satisfy the hunger pangs. This image stuck in my head. PRAISE THE LORD there were some awesome people from Canada Kira and Cameron a brother/sister duo who had been there on a mission trip before went back and found out what had happened. They rangled up their savings and any other money they could find and got a bus and sent that bus to pick up all of the 70-80 kids that were there.
The kids were back safe and when were there all but 2 had been safely recovered. I think it turned out one of them went back to family willing and able to take him in and the other was later recovered. We treated LOTS of malaria and de-wormed all the kids.
Fast forward 8 months. Money has run out. Cameron is now running things and his sister sent out this plea
"I write you this letter with a plea in my heart!! I hate asking for money yet if we do not be honest and tell you where we are at then we can't give you the opportunity to show these kids your love! We are in desperate need right now of financial support. Since January of 2009 my brother and I have been solely responsible for providing the money to feed and educate the children. Along our journey we have had a number of people who have given and we are so thankful for you!! We have 67 children who need a sponsor if you would like to have a child you can provide for monthly or you can give just one time!!
I need to be honest because it has come to the place where the kids are going with out food because we have no money to purchase food. The school sent them home because there was no money for school fees this term. Even worse is we had one of our children Peter fell out of a tree and hurt himself badly requiring numerous stitches and x-rays. Since we were back in Canada our team in Africa had no funds to pay the hospital and Peter was left to bleed while Jennifer ran around Kampala trying to find the money. See in Africa the health care is different then ours where they will not even touch you until the bill is paid.
Our hearts really break for these children. We have done all we can with the help of God. Even though we worry daily of these children we know that God will some how take care of them. As much as we love them God in Heaven loves them more! At this point we know we will not be able to continue with out your help!! I know each of your have a heart for these children. I feel so humbled to have to ask you for your help. Yet at the same time I am excited to give you the opportunity to sow into the orphans and the widows. The Lord talks through out scripture about the blessing of giving to the orphans. Prov 21: " Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor will also cry himself and not be heard." Then scripture tells us that we will be abundantly blessed if we help the poor!!
Please respond and help us in any amount even $20 goes to provide a meal. If you can give any amount please send me a message and I will direct you. Thank you so much for responding to the cry of these precious children!! I hate to ask but we need your help more then ever!!"
So I have had this rolling around in my head not sure what to do with because, I'm an intern with medical bills out the window. So I prayed and I started asking others to pray. Then tonight before college group started Pastor Nick asked me how things were going. I told him I had gotten the numbers right it's now 62 kids between the ages of 8-20. That was all I had. As the college group service started the topic was feeding the hungry. He was talking about spiritually hungry. My heart didn't heart that at all and so this starts snowballing and by the end of the service I am weeping because I see that kid sitting on the dirt so hungry all he can do is eat handfuls of dirt and all that he has been saved from the life he's enjoyed for the last few months of SAFETY is now on the brink of falling apart and he could be eating dirt again tomorrow. I know God's heart was breaking with mine and my heart broke BECAUSE HIS was already broken, what I can't reconcile yet is He is the almighty awesome powerful of God who has redeemed me. He's healed me. I have seen His power. So why can't He feed His children?
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