God of Justice

I ran across this song today and LOVED it! So excited to be serving Our Awesome God in HONDURAS in January!! Fill me up and send me out!

"God of Justice" by Tim Hughes. Go listen to it, and then try to tell me that you don't want to go travel the world and be Christ's hands and feet!!

Shields

"Prepare your shields, both large and small, and march out for battle!" --Jeremiah 46:3

After what might have been one of my worst days at A&M yet, I skipped water polo and snuggled up under a blanket with my Bible, devotion book, and journal and was ready to have an amazing quiet time that would refocus me on what was really important-living for our awesome God!

I really wasn't expecting to get anything Honduras related out of my quiet time today, but once again what I was expecting wasn't what happened--God went WAY above that! Not only did I calm down and refocus on God, but he revealed to me this awesome little verse that would begin my intense preparation for Honduras!

In 55 days I will be in Honduras. CRAZY! If I were to have to get on that plane right now, I would be feeling so inadequate to be Christ's hands and feet. I'm nowhere near as ready biblically and spiritually to be missioning for our God as I want to be in January. But this verse showed me exactly how I need to be preparing. Preparing my shields, both large and small.

Some things seem obvious when it comes to mission trips. These "large shields" - such as patience, biblical foundation, a flourishing relationship with Our Lord. Those are the things that I have been caught up with trying to prepare myself for. But in reality, those are only part of the things that are needed in order for a mission trip to be successful. We also have to have "small shields" - love, joy, compassion, humility, a servant's heart, and a commitment.

It are these "small shields" that will ultimately build into the "large shields" that I have been focusing on. Starting now, I will be focusing on encompassing these smaller necessities that don't seem as crucial as the bigger "shields". But in reality, without these small shields, our larger shields are just big flimsy shields. Yes, they have the size to protect you, but they aren't made with the correct materials. They aren't going to do much unless we have the small shields building them up! Combined together, it is these shields that will be essential for our work to glorify our Father when we are in Honduras! The large shields aren't enough by themselves, and neither are the small shields. We need them both!

Tomatoes, Flour and Eggs

Tomatoes, Flour, and Eggs! That's how Camp Cho-Yeh likes to raise money for mission trips!!

Yesterday at Chovember Fest (it's a Fall Festival type thing that Cho-Yeh puts on for campers in the Houston area once a year), there was an obstacle course that was set up for everybody who was going on the mission trip to run through. Here's the catch. All of the campers and their families could purchase tomatoes, flour bombs (panty hose filled with flour), water balloons and eggs to throw at us as we ran through it!

Kristen, Carley and I ran through the race together, which was a hoot in itself because we are best friends and all uber competitive. I managed to get through the race pretty clean, and was pretty excited. Boy was I in for a surprise! All of my campers had saved all of their ammo for when I got done, so that they could pelt me when I wasn't expecting it. Yep. I was disgusting to say the least. I had eggs and tomatoes woven into my braid and in my ears. I looked like a pancake with all of the flour that was caked onto my skin. It was disgusting. But so much fun at the same time!!

I think we ended up raising about $500 for the mission trip!! It was a huge success!!

Here is a picture with me and my campers after they had finally exhausted their ammo. This is also after I then rubbed all of the disgustingness off of me and onto them that I could.... What fun :)

Sponsoring

I am amazed at how awesome God is about providing for this mission trip!! SO many incredible stories have come out of the sponsorship letters that we sent out. He is SO faithful about providing everything that is necessary for us to fulfill His will! We find out in about a week and a half how much total money was raised, but the fact that God is at work already on this trip is so incredible to hear. I have never been so sure in my life about how God wants me to spend some of my time!!