Good News

I met April when I first came to the base, her and her husband open there house up to missionaries every Friday for game night.  They bake and cook for us as well as allow us to play board games and relax in their house.  April and her husband both live in Mexico full time and have been affiliated with YWAM for many years.  April spends her week serving.  She helps with the kids ministries in the Colonias where they conduct after school programs for the kids, and Wednesdays in the morning she picks up volunteers on the base at 5 am and we go and cook breakfast at an orphanage.  She has been doing this weekly for close to three years now.  She buys the food out of her own pocket, and commits to waking up weather there are volunteers or not.  Today as we were finished up cleaning I told her that I admired her commitment to bless both the YWAM base and the kids, she responded,  “ I am the luckiest person in the world to be able to do what I do”  One of the things I love about working in with YWAM is the good news you get to hear, so many stories of positive change in the world, and people who are willing to sacrifice to bless others.     

I share this story with you to encourage you and thank you.  I want to thank you for supporting missionary work.  It is because you and people like you missionaries are able to continue to bless others and serve.  The orphanage has touched my heart.  I know that because of my parents love I was able to move from a similar establishment into a home, and because of your love and support I am able to continue to be a part of the amazing work that is taking place in Mexico.

In the last year I heard Corey Booker speak, and in his address he reminded us that we are all the result of people who have sacrificed for us so we could be where we are today.  He then asked us how we are going to respond.  I want to let you know that when he said that I thought of you.  You are the people in my life that have sacrificed for me in many different ways, and it has changed my life.  So please be encouraged you are creating positive change in this world, you are a part of the good news that is happening here!!!!

Please continue to pray for me!!!  After the first of the year I plan on start intentionally praying and looking for what is going to come after I finish this school.  I still feel called to work with youth, possibly with in the camps and conferences sphere or possibly through recreational sports. I know that God has a place for me and in his time that door will open like they have in the past.   My last two years have been spent traveling and I am hoping this next placement will allow me to put down some roots.  I ask your prayers for wisdom and courage to take that next step.   Along with looking ahead I also need to discern weather or not outreach is something I am called to.  After the school finishes here in Mexico they are looking to travel to China.  To go on this trip will require me to stay on for another two months and raise more support.  I have to decide within the next month if I am going to go on outreach because we need to buy tickets months in advance to keep costs to a minimum.  Please pray for discernment about weather outreach is for me.  I still need 2,000 to cover the cost of tuition for the school, and that does not include the trip to China.  Continue to pray for the base here in Tijuana, as a base we are seeing more opportunities for ministry we need to make sure that we are able to effectively carry out these ministries.  Pray for our base leaders and the staff here that has committed to serve in those ministries full time. 

I hope all is well back home and look forward to hearing more about what is going on in your life, and I hope to see you during my Christmas break.  I will fly home the 17^th of December and come back January 2^nd. So if you are going to be in South Texas during that time let me know!!!!

God Bless and Merry Christmas!!!