As you all may know, if you are reading this blog, in may I will be moving to Welkom, South Africa!!
I will be leaving in may and returning home for Christmas. I am going to be serving Restoring Hope International.
Before I go any further...
:: A Little About Restoring Hope International::
" In South Africa, a country with more than 1.4 million AIDS orphans , you don’'t have to go far to meet children who are sick, abandoned, starving, afraid and without a place to call home. Most never receive the love and education necessary to live healthy lifestyles, making it next to impossible to break the devastating foothold that AIDS has on this nation until now.
In 2008, a dedicated group of individuals established Restoring Hope International (RHI), a non-profit focused on breaking the destructive cycle of AIDS in South Africa, specifically in the Welkom area. Today, RHI’'s board of directors is working feverishly to make it possible for RHI field staff and qualified South African house mothers to raise abandoned and orphaned children in safe, family home environments.
RHI’s goal is to reach the next generation for Christ."
I am told I will be doing many different things to help this be done. I will be serving the missionaries already there in the hands and feet work of a ministry, seeking to just engourage them and help!
:: Just A Beginner::
This blog will be a recording and tool for processing a new life on my journey while I am in South Africa. It will be a source for all of you to follow all the blessings, lessons, and tears as I seek to see Jesus' grace and mercy flood the nation of South Africa and the children and RHI Village.
I am so thankful for God's grace and love in all His great plans for getting me to this place. I am excited and scared. I am defiantly a beginner in vocational kingdom building. I am very much a weakling but able to boast because of my King's work.
"But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong."- 2 Corinthian 12:9-10
I have a feeling I will be needing this reminder a lot as I discover more and more my inadequacy for this task.
This is also my little disclaimer of sorts- in that- I am also a beginner in the blogging trend. I must admit to you that I have a unique skill ( I am sure my family will laugh from experience) that I am sometimes not very good at communicating, or spelling and being grammatically correct, talking too much, and often using the wrong phrases. I am no theologian but I trust that all of you will be able to look over my mistakes, and see my heart, and prayer.
:: More Than You Know::
I am so thankful for all of you more than you know reading this.
Thank you for all your support in sending me, encouragement, and prayer.
The body of Christ is so cool as I get to witness different limbs at work! ( 1 Corinthians 12)
Now, I am in earnest need of zealous prayers, because I know this is not work Satan wants to happen, it is not an environment I am used to, and it is not easy work.
As you read I encourage you to comment and pray for me!!
"For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, 16 I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, 18having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might 20 that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. 22 And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all."- Ephesians 1:15-29
