Letting the Spirit lead Day 6

Lovely wake up call this morning with goats beside my tent, but I managed to go back to sleep.  I didn't sleep great last night so I laid and starred at the stars! God's creation is wonderful. After  breakfast I was with Tracy walking around when two  to pray with them. Tracy told them the story of creation to Christ. They do not believe. One said she believed Jesus in her mind but not in her heart. God is working on these women for them to just come and talk to us.  Then as a team we went out in the bush to get away from the village to a tree to depref. We just sat around and discussed what we thought God was doing and where we should go from there. One of our groups was to go up North to some Villages but we all felt it would be better to stay in this area we are and split up to the villages around that way if something where to happen or what not we were all still by. After Tracy and I seeked out to find our "outdoor bathroom" much better than theirs.  Oh LOVELY Asthma how you Love Africa. Yep inhaler again and lunch time.  WE made ramen noodles! The problem with the meals seem to be that we seem to be feeding more mouths every time. My Favorite part of the day seemed to be coming! NOT!!!!! Since my Asthma seemed to be getting worse Aaron thought it would be best to give me a shot that should help for 3 days. That way I can breath! It WORKED!!! I haven't been breathing this whole trip. Not long after a group of us went out prayer walking while the others went around the village storing. We went to the school the clinic and the mosic. The clinic was eye opening again! WE got  to see a baby that had been born that morning and the mom was up walking around! You wouldn't see that in the U.S. As a group we prayed over the mother and the baby that they may have good health and grow up in the lord. This girl was for sure much younger than me probably not any older than 16 maybe that. When we got back the children where back of course. Well lets just say one hit one and another one got stuck in the much. I had kids all around me crying. Thank the lord it only lasted like 2 minutes. I didn't have enough arms for them. Got to talk to my mom and her first question would be how is my asthma doing. "It's doing Great mom" She doesn't need to worry and nothing she can do about it any ways. So.... Jenna came up after they got back and says let me hear your lungs laying her head on my chest.  The boys had told her that my asthma had been reoccurring not that I was fine now! OH BOYS! Dinner was chicken salad tonight or what we to make it with. Then Adam came to the rescue and fixed my head lamp. Not to hard I guess the batteries were just dead. Currently we are showing the Hope film to the Village. There are so many people around. Also lots and lots of children they will probably be dropping like flys before it is over. I think I am staring to fall in Love with this Village.

We had 41 people come to Christ not to mention the ones that come to Christ today with Randy.  While the movie was going Jenna got to talk to a guy that had a track with him form another group. The man started to say he wanted to learn more, He got to talking and I guess told the parable of the sewer.  So they got him a proclaimers which has the new testament in their language. So EXCITING!  Also the lady with the burns. The church got enough money together to send her to the hospital to get more help than what we could offer.

the mom and the hours old baby

the little boy reading out by the school

scubby and sita

Africa Janaury 2012 video!

The game of chase! Day 5

Slept pretty good last night Woke up to the donkeys this morning. Oh how I hate that sound! So IPod came to the rescue. Breakfast was oat meal and Starbucks Coffee! Then it was off to playing with the kids and start lunch. Here you pretty much start lunch up right after breakfast. Their lunch is like our dinner. Make sense why do we eat a big meal at night when we are going to go to bed? I got to help grind the peanuts! That was fun. It is  a wood bowel and a thing that is like a baseball bat and you drop it into the bowel to smash the peanuts.  We made ticadicana.  After preparing lunch I walked around the Village with James and Adam. It was fun greeting people in the village and just seeing more of the village. I got my Malian name too. it is Marium Jocitat(Not sure if I am even close on the spelling) It was neat to walk around and pray as we went from place to place. I walked back with probably 8 kids on me. Off to lunch we went and the kids stayed back. well sorta. After lunch I got to go with several other members of the team to the clinic in B. WOW was that eye opening. There doctor area is so far from ours. It is heart breaking to see that they don't have the medical help that they need. Then we came back M and went to F were my group will be going later on in the week. There we greeted the cheif. while greeting the chief me and Jenna notice everyone was sitting around but Tara! Sure enough we noticed we had left her back in M! Sean was sure in trouble! She was fine there was a translator there with her and a million kids. That is why she said she didn't notice that we where leaving.  Once we got back the lady we went to the clinic to get meds for came back for Aaron to fix her up. She had 3rd degree burns, which my understanding she would have been hospitalized in the US. It looked so bad. It was so so so so heart breaking to  see the women in pain. Later on her and her husband accepted Christ  and we all prayed for them.  Which was So amazing! After I took my first African bath! I decided that it is much more of a pain so those are going to be coming far and few between. Then it was play chase back to our camp! I didn't want 20 kids on me walking back so I ran and had them follow! Great idea! Until it lasted 10-20 min running around the camp and wait getting all sweaty.  Then one of the little girls braded my hair. I was in heaven! Off  to help with dinner and which yes another asthma attack. Oh did it scare me! But Aaron took great care of me!  We decided it was probably the fire smoke. Which stinks I can't sing at the camp fire now. As for now I am doing good. We have had alot happen today and will be staying here as a team together another day until we feel that God is leading us else where.

As I have been writing this I have been listing to Grace and Love by kuttless. oh how it gives me peace right now!

Job 1:1-22. Hope this is great! Chose hope! With everything going on to choose hope and expect it to happen. expectantly with the lady with the burns.

Also back to Psalm 34:4
"i sough the Lord, and he answered me, he delivered me from all my fear."

I have been praying with my asthma and was scared again today. God answered. Randy made the decision that no matter what on the trip I wont be apart from Randy and Aaron just in cases if something where to happen.

Psalm 34:8
"tast abd see that the Lord is good; blessed are those who take refuge in him"

smashing the peanuts

Doing the story of salvation with the kids with coloring their  nails

the clinic

lady with the burns

game of chase

To the Bush we go! Day 4

Yep it is 1 am here and I am out on the roof. There is no lights here at night! This is awesome. I am staring straight at the stars and moon.  I can hear laughter of a teen or older child. I just pray that that laughter be filled with the Joy of Christ. Just watching the moon get lower. And as I am just sitting singing and listing to worship music the moon is gone no where that I can see it!
This morning as we were packing up to leave a camel came by. It was so neat. Randy got to sit on the thing! It was not so happy about that one. lol So we hit the road around 10 I would say! who really knows we don't have time here!  The city is crazy here! I don't see how people don't get ran over what order there is in there driving Who KNOWS! we went over a bridge where the river was so pretty. Then we went threw a little town where we had to stop to pay a towel. People where things practically in the window trying to sell them. Then I was called the sleeping mearical because I slept almost the whole trip. we were on a road not a great road then I slept probably a half hour once we got off the road on the what I guess you can call it a dirt road path. But we got a flat tire right before the dirt road. So fix the flate and stop to eat lunch!  We finally made it to the village probably about 5 hr later I would say.
We got here and all the kids came running literally all you see is streams of kids coming from every where following the bus back to our camp! They all gave us high fives and played for hours as we got off the bus. Then it was Mac and cheese for dinner. Yum! Shortly after my lovely asthma kicked in! The one fear for the whole trip! Aaron came to save the day. And finally after along I finally broke. I had been so over whelmed. Randy and me had a good talk about Psalm 35! There was so much to take in, It wasn't bad by all means. Then it was for worship by the fire. I had the cutest boy fall asleep on me. Then everyone around me started to fall asleep. Terra and Tracy just kept yelling at me that a kid behind me beside me was falling asleep. They where falling like flys. The funnest thing I have seen in a long time!

slobbers

yep what is like to get off the bus with a million kids around

24 hr Prayer! Day 3

Today we are staying at the guest house just getting things ready to head out! We started off the day with breakfast together and figuring out the internet more. crazy we all are dieing trying ti communicate back home. I slept really well last night! Just woke up at three because I thought I had bugs all of me when it was my head phones. lol Three seemed to be a common time among half the team waking up. Right now I am on the roof. It is so amazing up here you can see everything. We are doing 24 hr of prayer so this is my hr.  I just went back to read day 1 devo we have and it is titled God please help me find a place. talking about how you can hear the voice or my be wrestling with the question of will God use me or did I come all this way for nothing. This is so what has been going through my head last night when I was thinking will I fall in love with his place like everyone that is here again.

James 4:6-10 " submit yourself to the Lord, humble yyourself before Him and he will exalt you!

As I am up here on the roof I opened my cards for the day which was From Layla. saying " Remember God is bigger than big and stronger than strong." I just started crying this is so what I needed and it came from a 3 year old! I am also listening to hillsong in which God is able is playing. So Awesome! Right when I wonder if I should be here God shows him self and makes it known.

Psalm 5:1
Oh Lord hear as i pray pay attention to my groaning"
this just flipped opened in my bible I wanted to read psalms 2 but my pages kept flipping from the wind so I gave in and read it!

This afternoon 3 of us girls just sat down in our bed room and started talking which probably lasted 2 hr or so. It was such a good good talk. We talked about our walk with god our familys and prayed over it all. Then a few of us went down the street to the soccer field. We had our cameras and the little kids just loved to pose. There was 2 then 3 then 4 and then every kid that I think was out there. So funny!

 

2 kids

3 kids

5 kids

oh wait all of the kids now

WE Made it! Africa day 2

We made it! We got all of our luggage and all the flights went really smooth. The only problem we had was when we went to get out of the air port in bamiko they wanted to check all of our food bens. So we had to pay a little to get our bens in with us. The drive into the guest house was eye opening. they just throw their trash every where. We went out to dinner tonight as a group down the street to a restraunt. I was really yummy! lol

I have got to say I am quite tired last night on the plain I looked out and it looked like gold had been shaken over the area with the lights of the citys. Didn't sleep much until brussels.

Philippians 1:27-28

just got done with a group Devo and worship time now I am shutting my eyes!

blurry but you can see the trash

The journey through Africa Day 1

I will be posting each day my journal entries from the trip for everyone that wanted to know what happened. I have to say I don't think these really even touch what happened.

Day 1

We just left D.C. and headed out of the U.S. This morning was alot harder than I thhough. I figured saying bye to Will wouldn't be that bad. No! I started crying 17 days is a long time but will be well worth it! So far flights have been smooth.


My verse for today in my cards were Mathew 28:18-20 and Mark 16:15-16
Both talking about going and making deciples.
I do have to say I wasn't worried or scared until we were about to take off in D.C. Then i got a scared feeling over me. As I write I am currently watching lion king! Figured good one to watch. We ahve mini T.V. to where we can pick what we want to watch. So far I have been sitting on my own on the flights. From the walk to flight in Chicago James decides to make a short Joke, That can I keep up with his big strides. It's  going to be a long 17 days with him. lol I will say I am getting quit tired
Psalm 46:1
God is our refuge and strength and ever help in trouble.
psalm 28:7
The  Lord is my strength.

Right now I am having my first tea with milk. It is quite interesting. Well this is all for now.

the view out the window of the plane it looked like gold had just been sprinkled here and there over the world.