Gooood Morninggggggggggg,
This week has been amazing. i want to start by showing you a clip from a meeting i was at last wednesday. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL96l-MGa5U&feature=share
Isnt it amazing!!! If you just skipped over the link to read my blog, dont! go back, click on the link and watch it all the way through. you wont regret it.
Last week was a very busy one. we were out every night at different friends for dinner, we had bring and share(pot luck) house group, sheesh kebabs and salad at heidi's, apricot chicken at ben and sarah's, and chicken pasta again with ben and sarah, and others i cant remember. But we have eaten well all week.
The wednesday night mandatory healing rooms meeting was cool. we worshipped then the leaders got people up who hadnt had words of knowledge( words about someone God tells you that you didnt know before,eg. diabetes, back pain) for healing before. So about 10 people went up. the leader Josh stevens got them all to call out a word for people in the room, so they did and lots of people stood up with the pain/illness they were calling out. we prayed and many got
healed. Thankyou Jesus.
I was in the healing rooms again on saturday, it was a wonderful day, Holy Spirit was definately doing something. Lots were getting healed, from crippling arthritus, to deaf ears opening.
My team prayed for lots of people, we had words of knowledge for a lot of the people that came to us for prayer, a lot of the time people write down on their form only 1 thing that needs healing, when actually they have other things wrong with them. So God told me about a mans knee that hurt, so i asked him about it and he said yes he had pain in his left knee. So we prayed and Jesus healed him.
We had a lovely lady named Jodi come in and she had a really bad back, it was a 8/10 in pain, so as we prayed the pain went down to a 4 and then to a 1!! I then had a word of knowledge about neck pain, so i asked if she had neck pain, she said yes. So i put my hand on her neck and commanded the pain to leave. We asked her how it felt and she moved it around and said 'wow, it feels amazing'. we also prayed for her stomach, she'd had a historectomy that was making her tummy area enlarged and painful. After we prayed she said it felt different, much better and something was definitely happening. We also prayed for a man with tennis elbow, who had a pain level 4,God healed that all up, and no more pain! We asked him if he had any pain anywhere else, he said his foot was numb a bit from a trapped ciatic nerve, so i placed my hand on his foot and we prayed. He said it felt different after, said it was feeling better. He left really happy.:)
On skype people were getting healed. My friend ruth wrote about this after her time on skype:
So Goooooooood Jesus!
Church was really good yesterday, it was Easter sunday, and Bill was speaking, he started off with saying he's never been any good at easter sunday preaches. It was funny. We ended up praying for each other and Bill spoke a little bit. The worship was amazing. Brian Johnson led.
Sunday lunch was at our friend Antje's with Lynda and her cooking, we had LAMB! they dont cook hamb here, so it was amazing. so yummy. Antje is German, so traditionally has lamb on easter sunday. Then in the afternoon we went to visit our good friend Tim in hospital. He has stage 4 liver cancer and other problems including fluid build up, He is amazing, and full of faith for his healing. We are praying for him everyday. Please keep him in your prayers. thankyou.
Well its monday morning and I, izzy, have a meeting in a few hours about publishing a book with Lynda! We are meeting up with a lady who has written, illustrated and published a childrens book. She's going to give us feedback on ours which is exciting.
Hope you all have a blessed easter week. He has risen!!!!
Monday, April 25, 2011
Saturday, April 16, 2011
God loves us not because of who we are, but because of who He is.
Author Unknown
Here is a link, its a sketch about Gods grace, please watch it to the end, its really impactful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhoFEuw2GPA&feature=share
This week I, izzy was impacted by the love and faithfullness of God to his children. I have just finished the book Heaven is for Real. Its about a 3 year old boy who, whilst being operated on, goes to Heaven, and the event that happened in and around that time of his life. His parents gradually over months asked him questions about his experience to find him answering things about heaven that he would never have known from the bible at three years old. It blew my mind. The reoccuring theme in his answers is love. God loves us so much.
I was in our Friday night service at Bethel this weekend, Joaquin Evans was speaking, and when i say speaking, he was calling out words of knowlege and God was healing people all over the room. He got a few of the people who had been healed up on stage to tell what had happened. One man who went up was an English man called John (ive changed his name) his back had been healed. Joaquin called his daughter up on stage, who was a fellow student of ours, and prophecied over them. It was amazing. I found out later that John had become a christian that night. What a night for him. Saved and healed in one meeting. My friend, his daughter was ecstatic.
I got home from church at 11.30pm that night, church was CRAZY. SO GOOD. Holy Spirit was in a gooooooooooood mood.:)
The next day I was in the healing rooms, as i usually am on a saturday morning at 8.00am. It was an incredible time of seeing Gods hand on peoples lives. My group leader Elizabeth and our group of 4 prayed for many people who had come in for healing, from pain in the back to tumours in the brain. We prayed and prophesied over them, and saw lots of them completely healed! Thankyou Jesus. My group leader moved halfway through to do skype so i moved to another group. The man being prayed for by them happened to be John, my friends dad. So he said his back was still completely cured, no more pain. They led him into an encounter with Jesus, in which he invited Holy Spirit into his life. Then we prayed for his knees which were pretty painful, I think we prayed twice, and the pain was gone! Then we prayed for his ankles which got completely healed, then his shins, which were painful from driving for many years, they got healed, then we prayed for the most painful thing, his ingrown toe nail. This was a 10/10 in pain he said. It hurt a lot walking into the room. So we asked him to take off his shoe and sock and we commanded the pain to go. I think we pray 3 times. The pain went from a 10 to a 0! During this time God had been talking to him, telling him he was totally loved, and God told him how proud He was of him. We all hugged and John left to go and tell one of the testimony team what happened to him.
Our leader came back over 10 minutes later and said that John hadnt even noticed his toe in walking across the room. So the pain had gone so much that he forgot about it. Praise Jesus!!
That was just one testimony of many from saturday morning.
Sunday morning we were in Church at Bethel, we had Danny Silk talk about Favour. Worship was amazing, led by William Matthews. His voice is so lovely. He has an album coming out soon with his own songs on, i definately recommend it.
Today I went to my friends suprise birthday lunch which was fun, then went to the dollar cinema to see Gnomeo and Juliet, an animated film with loadsss of famous people in. It was sweet.
Liam is out with our friend Mark tonight and i am going to get on with some homework.
This year has been so amazing at Bethel and its so strange that in less than 2 months we will be back in Cheddar. We are happy to be going home but sad to be leaving, so its bittersweet really.
God Bless you all, i hope you have a wonderful week, full of the joy of the Lord and encounters with your heavenly Daddy :)
Izzy X
Monday, April 11, 2011
Hey everyone.
Sorry we haven't posted for a little while. The last week has been quite busy because we had Izzy's birthday! We had an amazing party on saturday afternoon, where we held an open house with people dropping in most of the afternoon. It was great and thankfully the weather played it's part so we were able to use the back garden and the BBQ! Thanks for everyone that came and made Izzy's birthday a real special time.
We also had an awesome week at school. Bill spoke to us on Tuesday, which was brilliant. As we're drawing near to the end of term here, it feels like Bill in particular is really laying down some stuff for us to take away as we all head out in various different directions. This week he spoke from 2 Samuel 6 and the priority of ministry to the Lord.
Wednesday saw Kris speak to us from 2 Samuel 13 and the lessons we can learn from David not confronting Amnon, which led to Absalom killing Amnon. Kris went on to unpack this and how seeing someone else's actions, maybe a mother or father figure, can become our reaction. So in the case of David, he became afraid to confront people, even his own sons, because he was abused by the way Saul had treated him, which led David to live in reaction. We must develop our own response. Hope some of that makes sense!
On Thursday we had our revival group (smaller group of 65ish students) leader, Crystal, talk to the whole first year. She was great, talking her own personal journey into the Grace of God, from a life and ministry of striving to earn God's affection. She told us of a dream she had and how God taught her to stop worrying about performance and to just rest in Him. The bible often refers to our output or attributes as fruit, so Crystal was often worrying about how much or what type of fruit she was producing, but God taught her to not worry about it, that He would control the production and make sure she was fruitful! Which is good news! She finished by singing a song which God inspired her to write, which includes a bit about her revelation of being free from religiously following and instead enjoying resting with God. Here are the lyrics:
Come and meet me in the trees
Come and whisper in the breeze to me
Undenying Love
I am yours and you are mine
I am yours and you are mineFather, Spirit, my True Vine
I am yours and you are mine
I’m in you and you’re in me
I’m the fourth one in the Three
This is the garden of my love
This is the garden of my life
No one can take this place from me
No one can take away my peace
I am free, I am free, I am free
I climb the branches of your smile
With this view I can see for miles
We are in the weather of your love
No matter the season
We are in the weather of your love
Hope the song lyrics bless you anyway....
Our weekend has been pretty packed. After having an awesome day celebrating Izzy's birthday on Saturday, we had a revival group party after church Sunday which was great. We all hung out in one of the local parks playing various games.After the park Izzy had her Track group project presentation. The group showed a slide show of the cards they have been making. Izzys cards are going to be printed and sold which is exciting. you can view and buy the cards online at:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=501955836#!/pages/Bethel-Impart-Cards/198267633539268
Of course Bill was amazing Sunday morning, talking about something that's very close to his heart, leaving a legacy for future generations. Was brilliant.
In other news, our car has broke. Which is not good. Although a mechanic guy is coming to look at it Wednesday sometime, so in the mean time we're all scrambling around trying to find lifts to the various activities we're involved in, including school tomorrow. Please do pray for a quick and speedy recovery for our car, and not an expensive one!
I've gone on for too long now, so that'll do. Really hope everyone reading this is well and enjoying life.
Bless you all for reading.
Izzy and Liam xxxxxxxx
“He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to
righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.” - 1 Peter 2:24.
*Izzys bday cake; Lil cooking on the bbq; Lynda,Izzy,Heidi, Antje, Sarah; evening bday party;izzys presentation.
Sorry we haven't posted for a little while. The last week has been quite busy because we had Izzy's birthday! We had an amazing party on saturday afternoon, where we held an open house with people dropping in most of the afternoon. It was great and thankfully the weather played it's part so we were able to use the back garden and the BBQ! Thanks for everyone that came and made Izzy's birthday a real special time.
We also had an awesome week at school. Bill spoke to us on Tuesday, which was brilliant. As we're drawing near to the end of term here, it feels like Bill in particular is really laying down some stuff for us to take away as we all head out in various different directions. This week he spoke from 2 Samuel 6 and the priority of ministry to the Lord.
Wednesday saw Kris speak to us from 2 Samuel 13 and the lessons we can learn from David not confronting Amnon, which led to Absalom killing Amnon. Kris went on to unpack this and how seeing someone else's actions, maybe a mother or father figure, can become our reaction. So in the case of David, he became afraid to confront people, even his own sons, because he was abused by the way Saul had treated him, which led David to live in reaction. We must develop our own response. Hope some of that makes sense!
On Thursday we had our revival group (smaller group of 65ish students) leader, Crystal, talk to the whole first year. She was great, talking her own personal journey into the Grace of God, from a life and ministry of striving to earn God's affection. She told us of a dream she had and how God taught her to stop worrying about performance and to just rest in Him. The bible often refers to our output or attributes as fruit, so Crystal was often worrying about how much or what type of fruit she was producing, but God taught her to not worry about it, that He would control the production and make sure she was fruitful! Which is good news! She finished by singing a song which God inspired her to write, which includes a bit about her revelation of being free from religiously following and instead enjoying resting with God. Here are the lyrics:
Come and meet me in the trees
Come and whisper in the breeze to me
Undenying Love
I am yours and you are mine
I am yours and you are mineFather, Spirit, my True Vine
I am yours and you are mine
I’m in you and you’re in me
I’m the fourth one in the Three
This is the garden of my love
This is the garden of my life
No one can take this place from me
No one can take away my peace
I am free, I am free, I am free
I climb the branches of your smile
With this view I can see for miles
We are in the weather of your love
No matter the season
We are in the weather of your love
Hope the song lyrics bless you anyway....
Our weekend has been pretty packed. After having an awesome day celebrating Izzy's birthday on Saturday, we had a revival group party after church Sunday which was great. We all hung out in one of the local parks playing various games.After the park Izzy had her Track group project presentation. The group showed a slide show of the cards they have been making. Izzys cards are going to be printed and sold which is exciting. you can view and buy the cards online at:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=501955836#!/pages/Bethel-Impart-Cards/198267633539268
Of course Bill was amazing Sunday morning, talking about something that's very close to his heart, leaving a legacy for future generations. Was brilliant.
In other news, our car has broke. Which is not good. Although a mechanic guy is coming to look at it Wednesday sometime, so in the mean time we're all scrambling around trying to find lifts to the various activities we're involved in, including school tomorrow. Please do pray for a quick and speedy recovery for our car, and not an expensive one!
I've gone on for too long now, so that'll do. Really hope everyone reading this is well and enjoying life.
Bless you all for reading.
Izzy and Liam xxxxxxxx
“He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to
righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.” - 1 Peter 2:24.
*Izzys bday cake; Lil cooking on the bbq; Lynda,Izzy,Heidi, Antje, Sarah; evening bday party;izzys presentation.
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Saturday April 2nd. Healing rooms
The healing rooms were very busy today, we had hundreds come from all over the world for a touch from the King.
My team leader was michael an aussie whose in second year. I told him i want to practice my word of knowledge (God telling us something about someone that i wouldnt know naturally, eg. a pain somewhere in the body, their name). So we prayed for a lot of people today, a lot of them came in for prayer for a body part, but God went deeper than that, and they got their body part healed and emotional healing too. God was incredible.
My favourite healing today was this mexican couple who couldnt speak any english, thankfully mike speaks spanish tho so we were ok. The wife had pain in the head, neck, shoulders, back and feet, she was quite unemotional, she didnt smile at all. So we prayed about 3 times and there was significant healing, but the pain had moved to behind her eys and another part of her back, when pain moves this means its a spirit from the devil causing the pain(otherwise why could it move!?) so i just said 'spirit of pain leave now, in Jesus Name' and suddenly she burst into laughter and was completely pain free! She laughed for about 10 minutes, then we prayed for her husbands back and neck and that got completely healed too. Thankyou Jesus!
We prayed for a lady who had a spot on her back and the doctor thought it might be cancer and so was booked to go for tests but came to the healing rooms first. So me and my friend Lilly prayed for it to go and she said she felt like something was being pulled out of the spot, she said it was a strange feeling. I hear God say she gets headaches, so i asked her and she said yes! she had had one yesterday and gets them a fair bit, so i commanded them to go in the name of Jesus, and we are believing they have gone. She came back 10 minutes later and tol us the feeling on the spot was still going on, so God was definatly doing something.
A lady came in who had ruptured something in her knee and was in a LOT of pain. She was due for an operation in 2 weeks on it. We prayed and got her to check out the knee by walking up some stairs (which she couldnt do before) so she did, and said it was about 50% better.Praise Jesus.
A man who had a bone spur on his foot said he felt something happening on it when I prayed.
A girl from Sweden came in for prayer for hormone inbalance and nausea, so we prayed and i felt a tightening in my chest so we asked her if she had any anxiety, we commanded the anxiety to go, and she suddenly leaned back with her chest out, as though a weight had been lifted off, she said she felt a lot better and thr tightness and nausea was gone. We prophesed over her(gave her words from God about her future) and she left lighter and happier. SO GOOD!
They had people ringing the healing rooms through skype and we heard at the end that lots of people who had cancer had rang in, and all the pain left their body! One lady got healed from something, then got her daughter to be prayed for, then got her son, and kept going and getting more family members for prayer, and they all got healed! there were many more skype testimonys too which i cant remember, but God was definatly moving through skype today!
Thanks for reading about my exciting morning.
Love you and Jesus loves you
xXxXx
The healing rooms were very busy today, we had hundreds come from all over the world for a touch from the King.
My team leader was michael an aussie whose in second year. I told him i want to practice my word of knowledge (God telling us something about someone that i wouldnt know naturally, eg. a pain somewhere in the body, their name). So we prayed for a lot of people today, a lot of them came in for prayer for a body part, but God went deeper than that, and they got their body part healed and emotional healing too. God was incredible.
My favourite healing today was this mexican couple who couldnt speak any english, thankfully mike speaks spanish tho so we were ok. The wife had pain in the head, neck, shoulders, back and feet, she was quite unemotional, she didnt smile at all. So we prayed about 3 times and there was significant healing, but the pain had moved to behind her eys and another part of her back, when pain moves this means its a spirit from the devil causing the pain(otherwise why could it move!?) so i just said 'spirit of pain leave now, in Jesus Name' and suddenly she burst into laughter and was completely pain free! She laughed for about 10 minutes, then we prayed for her husbands back and neck and that got completely healed too. Thankyou Jesus!
We prayed for a lady who had a spot on her back and the doctor thought it might be cancer and so was booked to go for tests but came to the healing rooms first. So me and my friend Lilly prayed for it to go and she said she felt like something was being pulled out of the spot, she said it was a strange feeling. I hear God say she gets headaches, so i asked her and she said yes! she had had one yesterday and gets them a fair bit, so i commanded them to go in the name of Jesus, and we are believing they have gone. She came back 10 minutes later and tol us the feeling on the spot was still going on, so God was definatly doing something.
A lady came in who had ruptured something in her knee and was in a LOT of pain. She was due for an operation in 2 weeks on it. We prayed and got her to check out the knee by walking up some stairs (which she couldnt do before) so she did, and said it was about 50% better.Praise Jesus.
A man who had a bone spur on his foot said he felt something happening on it when I prayed.
A girl from Sweden came in for prayer for hormone inbalance and nausea, so we prayed and i felt a tightening in my chest so we asked her if she had any anxiety, we commanded the anxiety to go, and she suddenly leaned back with her chest out, as though a weight had been lifted off, she said she felt a lot better and thr tightness and nausea was gone. We prophesed over her(gave her words from God about her future) and she left lighter and happier. SO GOOD!
They had people ringing the healing rooms through skype and we heard at the end that lots of people who had cancer had rang in, and all the pain left their body! One lady got healed from something, then got her daughter to be prayed for, then got her son, and kept going and getting more family members for prayer, and they all got healed! there were many more skype testimonys too which i cant remember, but God was definatly moving through skype today!
Thanks for reading about my exciting morning.
Love you and Jesus loves you
xXxXx
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Thursday 31st March 2011.
Bill Johnson, senior leader at bethel, was hanging around in school today at the beginning, we had the nicest conversation and he gave me a lovely hug, he is such a fatherly man, so warm.
Also today our friend Elizabeth had a lovely suprise on her birthday, she had a dream about finding money in a purse she doesnt use any more, so when she woke up she checked her purse just in case there was money.......and found a beautiful good sized diamond! It is perfectly cut and SO sparkly we saw it today, shes tried to cut glass with it and it worked, so it is real. God loves to give his children gifts. People have found gems all over the world, all different colours and all different sizes. Thankyou Father God. :) we are waiting for ours, izzys birthdays next thursday....
Bill Johnson, senior leader at bethel, was hanging around in school today at the beginning, we had the nicest conversation and he gave me a lovely hug, he is such a fatherly man, so warm.
Also today our friend Elizabeth had a lovely suprise on her birthday, she had a dream about finding money in a purse she doesnt use any more, so when she woke up she checked her purse just in case there was money.......and found a beautiful good sized diamond! It is perfectly cut and SO sparkly we saw it today, shes tried to cut glass with it and it worked, so it is real. God loves to give his children gifts. People have found gems all over the world, all different colours and all different sizes. Thankyou Father God. :) we are waiting for ours, izzys birthdays next thursday....
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Religion loved to strain and strive and boast in what its done.we are only going to boast in what He has done. weve been grafted in to the jam of heavens twinky. oh John Crowder we love you
Hello ship mates, hows it going?
Everyone havin' a good ol' time out there?
Last week Canon Andrew White came to speak to us which was awesome. He told us stories of his life, both painfully sad and wonderfully happy. he got rocked at Bethel and has gone home saying Bethels the joint best church with his in the world. haha.
We have had a great week this week, it started off on monday with a football/soccer time for liam, and a lovely walk round shasta lake for izzy.
Tuesday we were in school, we had a time of wonderful worship and then Bill Johnson spoke, it was amazing. He spoke on John 12:37 onwards. about how if we see whats coming, we can ask for it and pull it into the now. twas a good word.
Tuesday night we went to the 1st of 5 meetings called Dream Culture, run by a couple called Andy and Janine Mason, Andy is interning with Danny Silk, one of the pastors here. It was so good! About learning how to dream (as in what we wanna do in life) and that we have permission to dream, and steps on how to make them happen.
Today we had church history with one of the revival pastors, John sturges, which was brilliant, we then had bible teaching with Dann Farrelly, who spoke on the law which was good. Then Paul Manwaring spoke on beauty. It was just SO good. It was a little bit like the Dream Culture stuff. It was about living your life doing what you love which is beautiful, and brings glory to God.
We had revival group in which we played prophetic games, prophecying over people whilst blindfolded so our own judgements and stuff dont cloud our words from God for people. It was fun.
Tonight me and Em went to SOZO training which was really good. Pretty much everythings been really good today :), and tonight we had friends over to play games and eat english chocolate. cadburys!! YUM.
I hope all having a wonderful week. The weather here has been awful, all the rivers are really full because its been raining a lot! but today.........the sun came! wooooooooooo. ive missed it. it felt so good on our skin. i hope it doesnt go away.
Remember, you have permission to have dreams, write them down and think about how you can make them come about. Its not being selfish, God put those dreams into your heart, and he wants you to fulfil them, because he loves you.
Blessings and Grace
*photo of game from revival group.
Hello ship mates, hows it going?
Everyone havin' a good ol' time out there?
Last week Canon Andrew White came to speak to us which was awesome. He told us stories of his life, both painfully sad and wonderfully happy. he got rocked at Bethel and has gone home saying Bethels the joint best church with his in the world. haha.
We have had a great week this week, it started off on monday with a football/soccer time for liam, and a lovely walk round shasta lake for izzy.
Tuesday we were in school, we had a time of wonderful worship and then Bill Johnson spoke, it was amazing. He spoke on John 12:37 onwards. about how if we see whats coming, we can ask for it and pull it into the now. twas a good word.
Tuesday night we went to the 1st of 5 meetings called Dream Culture, run by a couple called Andy and Janine Mason, Andy is interning with Danny Silk, one of the pastors here. It was so good! About learning how to dream (as in what we wanna do in life) and that we have permission to dream, and steps on how to make them happen.
Today we had church history with one of the revival pastors, John sturges, which was brilliant, we then had bible teaching with Dann Farrelly, who spoke on the law which was good. Then Paul Manwaring spoke on beauty. It was just SO good. It was a little bit like the Dream Culture stuff. It was about living your life doing what you love which is beautiful, and brings glory to God.
We had revival group in which we played prophetic games, prophecying over people whilst blindfolded so our own judgements and stuff dont cloud our words from God for people. It was fun.
Tonight me and Em went to SOZO training which was really good. Pretty much everythings been really good today :), and tonight we had friends over to play games and eat english chocolate. cadburys!! YUM.
I hope all having a wonderful week. The weather here has been awful, all the rivers are really full because its been raining a lot! but today.........the sun came! wooooooooooo. ive missed it. it felt so good on our skin. i hope it doesnt go away.
Remember, you have permission to have dreams, write them down and think about how you can make them come about. Its not being selfish, God put those dreams into your heart, and he wants you to fulfil them, because he loves you.
Blessings and Grace
*photo of game from revival group.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Rancho de Sus Ninos
Hola!
We've been away for the past week in Mexico on a missions trip where we stayed at Rancho de Sus Ninos. We had an awesome, life changing time so we thought we'd fill you in on some of what happened....
We arrived at Rancho last Saturday, early afternoon after a really really long drive. We left Redding at about 2AM and arrived at about 2PM, the whole journey we rode in a bus. We were all really tired but excited about what the week ahead had in store. We were graciously given the rest of Saturday off to adjust to our new surroundings, apart from we had to be at dinner and we had a welcome talk we attended.
Sunday morning we had a church service which was great. The worship was amazing, the band were incredibly gifted musicians. Izzy was one of our team that was painting and painted a beautiful picture of a bird with various aspects of God's character in it's wings, reflecting Malachi 4:2. The service was a great introduction to the week ahead.
Sunday night we went and ministered in a small local church. To my surprise I was given the task of leading the kid's ministry. After a short time of panic, I thought through what would be good to accomplish during the time with the children and found some helpful and gifted people to fulfill this. We decided to get the kids active in hearing from God and to finish the session off by doing a picture for someone special to them and drawing what they thought God wanted to say to that person. The time went really well, loads of the kids came up with amazing and creative pictures and really seemed to engage with what was going on, even though we had to do the session through a translator.
Having gone on a trip to Uganda a few years ago I thought Mexico would be a kind of step up in terms of quality of living than Africa. Obviously not on a par with the US and UK but somewhere in between. I was shocked, Much of what we saw in Mexico was below the standard of living that we saw in Uganda which really took me by surprise. It was incredibly dry, the landscape was very dusty and most peoples houses were just bits of wood stuck together, nothing nearly as big as the garages we put our cars in. I guess I was ignorant to how Mexican people live.
The rest of the week followed a nice pattern of services with the Bible collage students in the morning, a couple hours of manual work where we helped install a water pipe, sewage pipe and lay foundations for a playground; and then in the afternoon we would go out to various places in the local area and talk to people and invite them to events that were being held. We got to play with the kids who go to school at the Ranch on a couple of days too which was awesome. All of the kids that stay at the Ranch are orphans and it was a pleasure to be able to spend time with them, in my case it was giving them various balloon animals and shapes that we made. The love of God was so evident in their eyes. Even though the world may have forgotten about these kids and these people, God certainly hasn't, it was so humbling to spend time with them. I must say I am in awe of the work that Jimmy and Genea Horner are doing in Tecate, Mexico. It truly was a privilege to be able to partner with the work they are doing.
The group we were with was great too. There was about 57 of us I think, many of whom we had never met or seen around school but by the end we were like a family. It was great to spend the week with them and getting to know them, it was such a great group that was led amazingly by Ben Armstrong, one of the Revival group Pastors at our school of ministry. I could go on and on about what we did, what we saw, but I'm going to leave it there for now. Maybe we'll fill in some details as the weeks go by. I must tell you about the Friday night we had. Friday nights are there healing service, so in the main hall they have a worship and prayer service and some of the class rooms off of the main hall serve as healing rooms where as people are called they head into one of the classrooms to be prayer for. Needless to say, Jesus got some of what He paid for and many people got healed or set free from things that had them in bondage. Absolutely awesome time, such a blessing to be able to serve them at this service. We also got to see a brand new centre they're about to open which is going to be a healing home. It's for people that are terminally ill and doctors have given up hope. They will be able to stay at the home and be cared for and ministered to by the staff there. Such an awesome thing to be doing.
We really hope this wasn't our last time at Rancho de Sus Ninos. It's a very long way from home but we hope one day we'll be back. We were so touched and moved by the staff, children, and students. May God bless them exceedingly abundantly above all they ask or think.
Until our next post, Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee! or Adios!
We've been away for the past week in Mexico on a missions trip where we stayed at Rancho de Sus Ninos. We had an awesome, life changing time so we thought we'd fill you in on some of what happened....
We arrived at Rancho last Saturday, early afternoon after a really really long drive. We left Redding at about 2AM and arrived at about 2PM, the whole journey we rode in a bus. We were all really tired but excited about what the week ahead had in store. We were graciously given the rest of Saturday off to adjust to our new surroundings, apart from we had to be at dinner and we had a welcome talk we attended.
Sunday morning we had a church service which was great. The worship was amazing, the band were incredibly gifted musicians. Izzy was one of our team that was painting and painted a beautiful picture of a bird with various aspects of God's character in it's wings, reflecting Malachi 4:2. The service was a great introduction to the week ahead.
Sunday night we went and ministered in a small local church. To my surprise I was given the task of leading the kid's ministry. After a short time of panic, I thought through what would be good to accomplish during the time with the children and found some helpful and gifted people to fulfill this. We decided to get the kids active in hearing from God and to finish the session off by doing a picture for someone special to them and drawing what they thought God wanted to say to that person. The time went really well, loads of the kids came up with amazing and creative pictures and really seemed to engage with what was going on, even though we had to do the session through a translator.
Having gone on a trip to Uganda a few years ago I thought Mexico would be a kind of step up in terms of quality of living than Africa. Obviously not on a par with the US and UK but somewhere in between. I was shocked, Much of what we saw in Mexico was below the standard of living that we saw in Uganda which really took me by surprise. It was incredibly dry, the landscape was very dusty and most peoples houses were just bits of wood stuck together, nothing nearly as big as the garages we put our cars in. I guess I was ignorant to how Mexican people live.
The rest of the week followed a nice pattern of services with the Bible collage students in the morning, a couple hours of manual work where we helped install a water pipe, sewage pipe and lay foundations for a playground; and then in the afternoon we would go out to various places in the local area and talk to people and invite them to events that were being held. We got to play with the kids who go to school at the Ranch on a couple of days too which was awesome. All of the kids that stay at the Ranch are orphans and it was a pleasure to be able to spend time with them, in my case it was giving them various balloon animals and shapes that we made. The love of God was so evident in their eyes. Even though the world may have forgotten about these kids and these people, God certainly hasn't, it was so humbling to spend time with them. I must say I am in awe of the work that Jimmy and Genea Horner are doing in Tecate, Mexico. It truly was a privilege to be able to partner with the work they are doing.
The group we were with was great too. There was about 57 of us I think, many of whom we had never met or seen around school but by the end we were like a family. It was great to spend the week with them and getting to know them, it was such a great group that was led amazingly by Ben Armstrong, one of the Revival group Pastors at our school of ministry. I could go on and on about what we did, what we saw, but I'm going to leave it there for now. Maybe we'll fill in some details as the weeks go by. I must tell you about the Friday night we had. Friday nights are there healing service, so in the main hall they have a worship and prayer service and some of the class rooms off of the main hall serve as healing rooms where as people are called they head into one of the classrooms to be prayer for. Needless to say, Jesus got some of what He paid for and many people got healed or set free from things that had them in bondage. Absolutely awesome time, such a blessing to be able to serve them at this service. We also got to see a brand new centre they're about to open which is going to be a healing home. It's for people that are terminally ill and doctors have given up hope. They will be able to stay at the home and be cared for and ministered to by the staff there. Such an awesome thing to be doing.
We really hope this wasn't our last time at Rancho de Sus Ninos. It's a very long way from home but we hope one day we'll be back. We were so touched and moved by the staff, children, and students. May God bless them exceedingly abundantly above all they ask or think.
Until our next post, Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee! or Adios!
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