Our God is So Big...

WE have had tons of rain and then nothing.  I asked the watchman if he needed rain for his corn.  
"Of course, " was his reply.  I asked him to agree with me that we needed rain and that God said that He would send what we had need of.  He looked up at the stars shining above, grinned and said, "Okay," but looked at me like I had a squirrel loose in my cabeza.  Anyway,  on a cloudless night, and 5 minutes later, it was raining like crazy.  I called our watchman on the phone and all we could do is laugh. WE rejoiced about how Good God is, and it was good.

I just knew rain was on the way after that, but that was it, and it hasn't rained since.  I don't know why God answers immediately and then doesn't answer the same prayer later.  Who Knows? God does.  It is His universe and He can do what he wants to do.  I am thankful, when my prayer is answered, and sometimes confused when it is not, but that doesn't keep me from praying.  I am the one who is just standing on what His Word says to do.   However, it is the rainy season.  Please pray for our country of Honduras will have the rain they need for the crops we have planted.  It is a crucial time.  Right now I am going for the "two or more as touching anything" prayer.


Well God came through huge with finding the parents for the passports.  WE had not heard anything and then all of a sudden, they wanted to find one of our girls.  We are so thankful that they had a day off and they both came to see about their daughter.  Both have passports, and we are thankful to God for the plans He has for them.

    

                                                                        

We had two girls who snuck into the kitchen to see what they could find. I had set aside two plates for our two nursing students, who come in late.  Some of my other girls saw them in the kitchen. So I called the accused into my house.  One girl got there before the other.  I asked the first girl about the report from the other girls and she said indignantly, "I did not", with a "How dare you?" look on her face. Finally her midnight snacking cohort came in and said, "I did do it".  I looked over the head of the first girl and looked over at the wailer, and with a question on my face as to her guilt.  The truth sayer just nodded "yes".  So the first girl starts getting louder in her denial of the obvious lie, continuing wailing about how she didn't do anything wrong.  When I say wailing, I mean loud wailing, and much flailing of the arms for extra dramatic flair.  I talked with her and told her I didn't care about the food, I cared about her and what was important when we do something that is wrong, and that we need to say we are sorry, otherwise it separates us from God and from the people who care about us. So I told her to go to bed and think about it. She wouldn't move. She just stayed there crying softly now. I headed to the house frustrated, but turned around and asked her if she needed to say something. As I got closer she grabbed me and she said in a normal voice level but still crying  " I did do it, and I am sorry ". I told her it doesn't matter how many times you deny the truth or how loud you get denying the obvious, it is still doesn't make it turn into something right. I hugged her, told her I loved her and prayed for her and she went quietly and peacefully off to bed, with her head held a little higher.

I thought about everything that is happening all over the world and it is just like my young person. Her denying the truth, made me sad, but I still had hope she would realize even though what she did was not right, I still loved her, but I prayed that God would heal her thinking and He did and He can do this.

                                                                 

 VBS  VBS !!!!  What a wonderful time with the community and with our team led by Bill and Sandy McHugh.  150 guests at our celebration of Ranch Avalanche

                                               

 

Our girls sing a song here in English and Spanish with large hand motions and much enthusiasm :

My God is So Big so strong and so mighty there is nothing my God cannot do. 2x's.
The mountains are His
The rivers are His
The stars are His handiwork too.
My God is big so strong and so mighty there is nothing my God can not do for You.

I heard Christine Caine say this morning on You Tube sermon, that we need to sing this song to ourselves as the body of Christ,  as a daily reminder.  I have been humming it in my head. There is nothing He Can't Do. As the body of Christ don't have to fear. He tells us in His Word, 365 times, one for everyday of the year, not to fear.  I don't know who counts these things, but it gives me comfort.  We just need not to fear to watch and pray.  We need to pray against confusion, focus on what God's Word says.  We need to learn tolerate our neighbors, who may not understand the Word, but we need to love them even more than we tolerate them.  We need to want the best for them and the best thing for them is to walk in truth.  I have heard people say that "truth is relative", but God says that He is the Truth and He will set us free.  I want Him for my relative, my heavenly relative, who lights my way when I can't see through a situation.  He makes my path clear.  

Again, I want to thank all of our supporters.  There are people we know and people we don't know that help us with this ministry.  I do want to thank Wesley and Suzanne for everything they have done, which is a lot, to help us get ready for the 20th Anniversary.  They have been amazing.  I would also like to thank our teams. We had our team Marathon, which meant we had teams back to back for months.  We have 5 days free and then our guests from the States are coming to help us celebrate 20 years of Project Talitha Cumi.  Thanks to everyone who helped us all of these years.  We appreciate all of your hard work and the investments of you heart given freely to our girls. Blessings,  The Super Blessed Honduran MOM.

May Brings in Flowers and Teams

Newsletter June,

Time has slipped away from us so fast.  We are in the beginning of team season.  People are coming every week for the next month.  So far we have had the return of some great friends that have come every year to help us with the mission of ministering to the 40 girls we have here at PTC, and 22 extra girls from the community.  Please pray for our teams and their leaders and for our community and the girls and staff of Project Talitha Cumi to have a great year. So far we have been super blessed. 

 WE are so thankful for the Team from GA.  They have fixed cars and finished our church flooring situation.  They have painted benches at the church and painted the walls, inside an out, at the intern house. WE have the electricity run on the other side of the duplex and the bathroom is installed.  WE lack the flooring and painting the walls, installing cabinets, and the doors should arrived today.  After the team leaves they are leaving behind their team leaders for 3 months.  Wesley and Suzanne Jarrod, are going to stay with us for a while.  They are our new long term interns.  We are excited they are here and would like for you all to be praying for them.  

We are going to make some new friends tomorrow.  The girls and I are excited over a new group from the United States that are coming to serve  by building a local private school that our girls attend called Abundant Life.  Jake and Rachel, who are the directors of the new bi-lingual school, are collecting their home church tomorrow as we drop off our team from GA.  Pray for them to have safe travels to the country and after they get here.  WE will be picking up and dropping off folks for a while until August.  WE are thankful for the love of so many who come here to participate in our loving controlled chaos.  It just sort of works together for good and is powered by God, is my only explanation.

The girls are doing so well in their studies.  I am amazed at the turn around of almost all of girls.  Our new teachers are doing a great job.  We are more than half way through the school season and the girls are still excited about going to school.  We have 13 girls going to the private school, who are in grades 1-4.  Then we have 10 kindergartners.  WE rest of our girls along with the 16 older girls from the community are doing well in their classes and in their relationships with each other.   I am very thankful to our girls who have reached out to minister to the girls of the community.  We have chapel services every Monday through Thursday.  WE have gone through the book of Mark and now we are on the book of John.  Many of the girls and the teachers have never read a complete book of the Bible.  WE are teaching them Bible verses and songs in English and Spanish.  WE are all growing in the Word and in the relationships God is creating at our David Wilson School for Girls. 

This week we were at the judges getting paperwork finished so that two of our girls can get passports to the United States.  One girl has been invited to go to St. Louis and the other to GA to continue their studies after they graduate this November from High School.  WE are so excited at the opportunities for these girls.  They both have sponsors and that also is a huge blessing.  We have been amazed at how God has worked all the details.  Here in Honduras, you have to have the parents sign a document that they are giving permission to their child to go outside the country.  The problem is most of the girls don't know their absentee fathers. Some do not know their mothers or fathers.  We have no way of knowing if they are alive, or if they are alive, where they might be living.  WE found the mom of one of the girls, though a neighbor, who knew the grandparents, and he got her phone number from them.  WE had not heard from the mother for 5 years.  The father had only been one time to our mission to visit and that was 11 years ago. 

 It seemed impossible, but God brought it altogether through a group in St Louis, who have been praying for both of the girls.  I would get a message from the leader and tell her our problem, a door would open.  WE would get another message and a totally closed door would open.  Finally, we found the dad and he came and gave his permission for his daughter to go to the United States. I was torn about the two of them seeing each other.  I didn't know what type of man he had become.  I didn't know what he might say to hurt her.  But, I didn't want fear to be our guide, so I carried him to her school.  It was a bittersweet time for me to watch this dad, at a loss of words and a face full of regret as he saw his daughter the first time in 11 years.  He was very awkward and they just made small talk. He was amazed at how much she had grown. Our girl looked shy and I thought her being a really sensitive girl that she would cry, but she absolutely had nothing going on.  It was like meeting a stranger.  I took a picture of them together, and she went back to class and he walked back to the truck crying.  I asked him if he had other children and he said that he now has a 5 year old boy and a year old son also.  I encouraged him to turn his life over to the Lord and that God would work out the details of a job and how he would provide for his new family.  I told him that God had so loved his daughter that He has taken great care of her and now she is going to be studying in the States.  I told him that he had a second chance to be a part of his daughter's life, and to do differently with his sons. WE got the paperwork today from the judges.  It was a good week. 

We are in the process of purchasing some land that joins ours.  It is farm land and we are getting it planted right now.  Even though we don't own it yet, we have a down payment on the property.  Our community is growing like crazy and I felt to protect our boundaries as well as use the land to grow the corn we need for our girls and for our animals.  Anyway, when I was in town the other day, I had been to our lawyer's office checking on the paperwork for the land, and I had gone to the bank. I was waiting for one of our girls to make copies at the store.  I was standing in the door of my truck, talking on the phone as I waited for our college student to get her papers copied.  I saw out of my peripheral 

someone go behind me and beside the truck I was parked beside on my left.  I didn't think anything about it.  While I am still talking, I see a police man walking briskly around the front of my truck, and when I looked up a man wearing a huge pewter star about the size of a man's palm, hanging around his neck on a thick chain.  My first thought was his jewelry was a little over the top, but turns out, he was the sheriff in plain clothes.  They had captured one of the three guys, who were wanted for assault on bank customers in the past.  One of the bank guards remembered them from a wanted poster and called the police. These particular criminals would stand around in the bank and watch who took out large sums of money.  I always use checks or a check card and so I don't walk around with cash.  I was oblivious to what was going on, talking away on the phone, until our college girl walked to the truck and said, "We need to leave because of the situation going on in the bank". I felt like a nut, but I just rejoiced at how God is so good to us.  Even when we are not paying attention, He has us covered.

This next month we celebrate our 20th Anniversary in Honduras.  We are getting everything prepared for our board from the United States and our board here to reunite, along with some very special people who have helped us over the years.  Please be praying we get everything together and I will send updates. 

Blessings from the Team Running, But Paying More Attention, Honduran Mom.

   

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