Came to My Rescue

Came to My Rescue

Falling on my knees in worship
Giving all I am to seek your face
Lord all I am is yours

My whole life
I place in your hands
God of Mercy
Humbled I bow down
In your presence at your throne

I called you answered
And you came to my rescue and I
I wanna be where you are

In my life be lifted high
In our world be lifted high
In our love be lifted high

So many of these lyrics express my heart. I find myself in situations I think are rough and i cry out to the Lord. And He always rescues me. Walks me through them. Calms and comforts my heart. Because of His love for me I DO want to be where He is. I will place my WHOLE life in His hands. I do desire for Him to be lifted high. All good things that come out of me living are due to Him. It's His influence on me that makes a difference.

bedroom

I should mention that this is stage one.

I still need a night stand (that's not a box covered by a sarang.)And I need some more wall decorations/painting/pictures etc. There's some plans in the works.

stay tuned...

my new bedroom

weather topics of conversation

Most people talk about the weather when they run out of other things to say. Or when they're simply not sure what to say. I talk about the weather because apparently I like it! I talk about it with my close friends and friends I just met. Yes, it's still a back up topic but it's also so much more! How fascinating the chance in temperatures. How bizarre that one week it can be 113 degrees and 7 days later it's in the 60's and raining. Of course it helps that I live in random weather areas. (Orlando, Barbados and San Diego) Bim was more or less monotonous in weather. Though it did have awesome downpours. You'd think San Diego would be pretty steady but it's the one with the spike and drop technique.

SO know this: if I talk t you about the weather, it doesn't necessarily mean I'm bored. I'm simply sharing one of my favorite subjects with you.

the schools

Venezuela is an amazing place. The people are INCREDIBLY friendly. It is the easiest thing to get into conversations and easy to talk to people about Jesus and easy to practice Spanish. However, there is one hard thing: getting somewhere on time. "on time" is relative. We have all learned, as a team, to be incredibly flexible. Some things happen. Many things don't. Other opportunities always come up.

We'll start out our day in 2 teams. Normally headed to 2 different locations. Normally 2 different schools. We're all supposed to leave at 9 on the same bus. Normally the bus pulls out at 9:30 or 10. We are trying to go to the high schools but my team has been to several elementary schools. We want to go in the schools but sometimes we don't get permission and we ended up gather students onto a local basketball court. But that's all fine, because God still works. We have seen so many people trust Jesus with their lives. Young, old, Spanish speaking, some Engilsh speaking. Our students have done amazing jobs of sharing their faith and starting conversations. There are 2 boys in particular who talk to ANYONE. It's a great team to be a part of.

In the afternoons we gather in a room we rented from a restaurant and have people we've met during the day meet us there. We dance and sing and then normaly do a skit and have some of our students share their stories. Share about Jesus. and then break up into small groups and go deep. Real deep. One night we had the group of girls all crying as two girls were very vunerable. Last night it was a group of guys. God is changing lives right before our eyes.

abbie and wilson

So i'd like to write more but i'm on a timer. Abbie is my timer. there's a shortage of computers and my two roommates eagerly await their turns. lol. I LOVE MY ROOMMATES!

Abbies mom: abbie really wants to talk to you.

Oh my other roomates name is wilson. Best name EVER!

We have so much fun in our room and laugh till it cries or till ABbie chokes. The maids leave us towels in the shape of animals. We think it's because they think ABbie looks like a Barbie. We're not totally sure. We also have the worlds largest stock of snacks. Need something? Our room has it.

MOre to come later!

beep beep beep. times up

Church

Today we went to church. It reminded me a lot of church in Barbados. There were 2 woman who did interpretive dance for the duration of praise and worship time. The "message" before the offering was as long as one of our normal sermans. It was all in Spanish and so I switched back and forth from trying to listen and discern meaning to working on writing my life style talk and organizing my testimony.

At one point they had our whole team come up from and introduce ourselves. That was really neat. Everyone was glad to see us and happy to hear that we would be talking about life and Jesus in the local schools.

After church we went to another church where we met others that are partnering with us. We had lunch and talked about how the church, volunteers, and ministries can work together to reach high school students.

Tomorrow we go into the schools. I'm excited to see how the language barrier works. I'm excited to get to meet more students.

My Spanish is definitely coming back a little. High school work is paying off!

p.s. Plantains here are awesome!!!