As for me and my house, we will serve you!!

We are having a mission fair at church this Sunday and the net. Matthew, our pastor spoke spoke about the church as a whole and where we would be going in the next year. He spoke about relying on another, b/c we ourselves have no strength. That being Jesus, and dying on the cross. I attend a church that believes in Gospel Transformation. Jesus change from the inside out. And O! this past year I have had some heart changes. I did Dave Ramsey's Financial seminar and learned quiet a lot. So much that I am still putting what I learned into daily practices.


Matthew went around calling people's names out and detailing how God had used/ changed the this year. A loud LiAnna and Christine was belted out first. He spoke about how we have supported poor children. Man, after a year of feeling like I had not been seen, it was like God had used fireworks to show me that I was indeed seen and loved.


Matthew also spoke about oversea missions and they showed interviews and clips of people that went to Hungary and Eleuthra this past summer. I saw my friend Wendy living life and hugging /loving on people that that a week before she had never known. One interviewer had said, "You sign up for these trips not knowing where you will get the money, you just know that God is pulling at your heart to go."


I have been praying, asking the Lord to show me in some way if he wants me to go to Brazil. After hearing the testimonies and talking to Mike, our Missions Pastor, I am going to Brazil on my Spring Break!! When I asked Mike about the dates, he said, " We made it for the time of Spring Break for you." I believe that he meant for "you" as in teachers and students could go, but right then God was slowing me, "I want you to go. You don't know how you will come up with $2500 while you are SO sunken in debt, but give it over to me and I will take care of it. " Mike said that we would be leaving Thurs or Friday and then come back on Sunday. That means that I would have to only take off the Friday before which should work out fine.
Oh, how I can't wait to see Bruno and Camilla and to just spend time with them again. Yes, with only 2 weeks into the school year, the end of March seems so far away. Feb. break and the half marathon/5K seems so far away also. But, God knows what He is going and I am laying my head down at night without worries b/c of how much He loves me.