Exciting News

***This was add from another blog but I only wanted one so I moved it It was oragally date March 21st.

So I am going to start this blog with a life changing event. As most of you know I went to China in 2007 for 12 days. Well since being back all I wanted to do was go back and work in a foster home. Well I applied for a great foster home. Guess what I woke up to on Friday!! This is part of the email that was in my inbox.



I wanted to let you know we reviewed your application and would be very excited if you could come and volunteer in our foster home. We would be especially excited for you to help with teaching in our pre-school, but you would also have plenty of time to cuddle and play with our infants. Thank you so much for your willingness and desire to come here to love our children. We believe you have a lot of special gifts that would be a blessing here, and we are touched by your heart for our children.As you can imagine I have been on cloud nine all weekend.

Running the Race

I recived this poem in an email today and got me thinking about the race each one of us are running!!!

Overcomer

Lord, You know I'm pushing onto run this race

I fix my eyes on You in everything I face

even when my feelings say it isn't so

Your Truth that beats

inside my heart won't let me go

with every step of faith,

You strengthen me

along every mile of trust,

You're remaking me'

tho a trail of tears

mark the path that I've come

until in Your arms...

I'll continue to run

Thougts from my quit time!!!!

For Christmas I received "Voices of the Faithful" Inspiring stories of courage from Christians serving around the world. It is one of those book that has a devotion for every day of the year. I wanted to share the story from yesterday. The story is from Kristee in South America.

Rain is depended upon in the jungle. Without it, wells will dry up, crops will die and the temperature will continue to rise.

I have become good at predicting the weather in the jungle. If it looks like rain, it won't rain. If it doesn't looks like rain, it will rain. When it does rain, if it last more then five minutes, it will rain for the rest of the day. If it stops before five minutes are over, it won't rain again until tomorrow.

One Sunday as I sat under the tree where we had church, my thoughts turned to the rain, or more correctly, to the absence of rain. I then realized that in the 14 months that I had lived in the jungle, no church service had ever been canceled for rain. I felt God saying to me, Of course not. You meet under a tree. You can't have church if it's raining. I've got that detail under control.

What an amazing realization! It had never occurred to me that we had good weather for church, but God had been taking care of it. I never bothered to pray about having good weather for church. Yet God already had it under control.

When I think about what that means in the rest of my life, I am almost overwhelmed. God proves daily that He is ordering my steps and planing my days. If he takes the time to plan good weather for believers in the jungle who meet under a tree, won't He be planning my life and yours as well?

That really hit home with me and my desire to go back to China. It helps remind me that God is in control. If he wants me there He will make the way and I have to wait on Him. He has it under control. It's like He is saying rest in me and let me take the lead in this.

Sorry this one was so long hope you enjoyed!!

New Apparment

As many of you know I have been busy moving into a new apartment and thought I would share some pictures!!

my bedroom

my bathroom

Kitchen

the office

Livingroom

My class

Here are some kids from my class!

Boys playing with toys

Boys playing Fuss ball

Chilling with Movie

Two of the girls reading

Censering ourself!!!

I was watching Charlie Brown last night as thinking of how great it was that they were using Scripture the whole way though the movie and how they told the real Reasons for Christmas. How many times do we censer our self so that we don't hurt someones feeling. We live in the U.S.A that clams to have freedom of religion and yet we are way to quiet about our beliefs. While people in places like China have to be and yet they put them self and there family in danger to spread the Gospel. How much we take for grated. Ever one who claims to be a Christian sound be as out spoken about there believe as the characters on Charlie Brown. We Complain about all the censoring of the gospel but we do it our self just as much as other do.

The best gift

On Sunday I asked my first grade class to draw pictures of the best gift they have ever received was. Most of the kids had a hard time because they couldn't think of what the best one was. I thought this was iconic because while we were in China one of the boys gave I believe Meredith a rubber band and told her it was the best gift he could give. I went to church think about the same thing what was the best gift I received was as I sat there I figured it out the best gift was the ability to go to church without having to have a passport.In China we met this guy who said that in China they are as free as a bird in a cage. Yes they can have there own religion but with limits and they have to keep it to themselves!! How blessed we are. And how easy it is to take for grated going to church. This is a picture of the church we went to in China the guild couldn't walk past the door because he is a Chinese resident and only people with foreign passports could go in !!