Daughter of the King
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!
So, today is the day! Me and my beautiful team will be leaving to Hermosillo, Sonora!!!!!! A place that is not too unfamiliar to me :) So, I'll give you guys a little glimpse of how our outreach will look because I may not be able to update super often while I am out there.
First we will be going to Hermosillo for 2 and a half weeks! (I am super excited! And hoping to be able to go to my friend's wedding in Guaymas). So in hermosillo we will be doing a lot of evangelism, street performances, kids ministries and helping our hosts with their existing ministries. Our second location is Monterrey, Nuevo Leon! Yay! I am super excited to go to a new part of Mexico and a new state ! :) Here we will be staying at the YWAM base and participating in their ministries. Some of them being, distributing bibles and Homes of Hope (building houses).We will be here for a week and a half. Then we will be going to CHIAPAS!!!! Here we will be for an entire month! Though nothing is set in stone yet, some things we may be doing would be working with an orphange, the persecuted church, with a men's rehabilitation center, and with other local churches. Some more street envangelism will happen and we will have a week of hiking from village to village, preaching, teaching, and serving around those communites. So yeah, that's about what we will be doing! The past while I will be honest I have not wanted to go on outreach, I have been stressed and a bit overwhelmed. We were asked to create 3 sermons and prepare kids ministry and practice dramas and songs. And I really want to go prepared, so the schedule has been super hectic and I feel like I haven't got everything done that I wanted to. So I was reminded the day before yesterday that I can do absolutely nothing without God. This week I have been the most stressed of all the weeks, but it is also the week I have spent the least amount of time with God. I cannot do anything without him. I was getting super discouraged and just moving through the days not super excited about anything. And I mean that does happen in life. But then I was talking with Cristian and he was just telling me amazing things about Jesus and I was just completely touched. So that evening I went to the prayer room, and I just cried to Jesus and simply asked for forgiveness for the way I have been acting, that I haven't given him any of my burdens, that I've thought that I can do it on my own. That I have not let my heart been a place where he can rest. I don't want to grieve the Holy Spirit. He has literally placed his own Spirit in our hearts. If that doesn't blow your mind, I don't know what does. The God of the universe, the Almighty God placed his own Spirit in your heart because he loves you and he wants to be in relationship with you. He sent his own SON!!!!!! To be a sacrifice for us! So that he could restore our broken relationship! So he could break the curse of sin off of our lives, so we don't have to sin anymore! We can be in perfect relationship with Father God. All we have to do is receive his love. And I have been so focused on works and trying to do all these things for God and failing haha. What does a tree do to produce fruit? It stands there, and recieves nutrients from the sun, the water, and the soil . I can't do anything unless I remain in Jesus, and he in me. “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing." John 15:5 So yeah, that's what I have been learning. And I am so human, and I am learning and struggling and learning! I am being humbled. (If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves. Galatians 6:3) Thanks so much for all the prayers you have all sent up on my behalf. You are loved! I miss home a lot these days actually. So you could pray that I would have perserverance! :) And that I would keep improving my spanish everyday all day, for I will be the only translator on my team and I am kind of nervous about that. That I would be bold and unafraid! Complete faith and trust in God, for he is good and his ways are perfect and he LOVES people! May I not get in the way of him loving someone else because of my own selfish fears of what people may think. May I grow in the knowledge of him. You can pray Colossians 1:9-12 over me if you'd like. :) or Ephesians 3:14-21. Those are prayers Paul has for the churches he is writing to, but I like to use them as an idea of what to pray for other people. You are loved!!! Be bold! And here are some pictures I'm gonna miss my fellow DTSer's. And photo credit to Olivia, Jeff and Dani. I am not sure who all took the pictures but I didn't take hardly any of them. And some people got baptized!!!!! So that is what those pictures at the beach are of! :)
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