I have been praying for God to lay the desire on some one's heart, and put them in my path to be my forwarding agent..and TAH-DAH God provided!!! All praise to God and many many many thanks to Flavia for being one of my prayer partners in this and to Myra Raake (pronounced Rocky) for answering the call to be my agent! I know our God is the God who listens and who answers, but I still found myself being in shock and awe this morning when my prayer was being answered. Prayer works, my friends!!! It conforms our thoughts to the those of the Father and great things happen when our thoughts get in line with Him.
I had a meeting with these two very special aforementioned women, and Brad, one of the board members of His Eyes mission, at the Pour House this morning. What a great place. I will be having more meetings there in the future. I feel so blessed by all the little God appointments and new connections that happened while being there.
And, as always, whenever I am fortunate enough to get to spend a day with Flavia and Myra... hmm I feel as though I need to make a nick name that smooshes both their names together for shorter, seamless typing since most of my stories include both of them. You know, the dynamic duo known as: Myravia, or Flyra, or a combo of first name to last name: Flaake. Anyway, I digress. As I was saying...I had a blast with these two ladies and we had a fun lunch at a keen little restaurant on the square where I got to experience some Afghan cuisine. What a groovy day!!!
Thursday, 9 December 2010
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Jana has a blog?!?!?!?!
Well, I have discovered that I am not a very good blogger...yet! Only one post in over 4 months...Yikes! I have some updating to do.
So, I'm back in Indiana and have been here for 4 months. It's been awesome, terrible, fun, exciting, busy, scary, overwhelming, a blessing and a million other things! I'm still riding on the roller coaster of culture shock and just learning how to live at home with the family again.
Good things have happened: I feel like God is breaking down the walls of my comfort zone in a hundred different ways stretching me and preparing me for my return to the field. I have been able to be more directly involved with my local faith family in worship on Sunday, in upcoming programs, in the new ladies Bible study, and in attending a free theology class!
God has placed very special people in my life to help me get organized and started on my fundraising. God opened all sorts of doors for me to be able to attend the National Missionary Convention a couple of weeks ago where I learned valuable tips on getting prepared, and got to re-connect with some very dear friends that I made while I was interning in Honduras for 6 months. You know who you are... all the way in Brazil (Indiana) :)
I'm so excited that I have this time to be back in the States with my family and friends, but God has kept a huge part of my heart in Honduras, and I am anxious to get back there!!! I am praying and looking for prayer partners. I have a lot of funds that I need covered before I can go back, but more important than money, I need to be covered with prayer! Will you please join me in prayer that I might do the Father's will. Here are some specific prayer requests that you could pray believing...
1.)That God will continue to place people in my life to help me in all areas of preparation.
2.)That God will open doors, and make clear to me one step at a time the things I need to do to prepare myself and my heart for the field. ie any courses or training that I will need to have under my belt to be able minister better.
3.) That I would manage my time faithfully with my daily prayer and devotional time, keeping the friends that God has made interested in me up to date in my life and fund-raising process.
4.) For me not to be fearful and overwhelmed with all the tasks that lay before me.
5.) For protection and blessings on Trevor and Valerie Colby and their 2 children (the wonderful people that I lived with during my internship and whom I will work with when I return) that God would continue to bless the work that they are doing to spread the love of Christ, and that they would be in prayer seeking God's will for the mission and what role I will be able to fill in the future.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I will be posting more blogs sooner rather than later!
So, I'm back in Indiana and have been here for 4 months. It's been awesome, terrible, fun, exciting, busy, scary, overwhelming, a blessing and a million other things! I'm still riding on the roller coaster of culture shock and just learning how to live at home with the family again.
Good things have happened: I feel like God is breaking down the walls of my comfort zone in a hundred different ways stretching me and preparing me for my return to the field. I have been able to be more directly involved with my local faith family in worship on Sunday, in upcoming programs, in the new ladies Bible study, and in attending a free theology class!
God has placed very special people in my life to help me get organized and started on my fundraising. God opened all sorts of doors for me to be able to attend the National Missionary Convention a couple of weeks ago where I learned valuable tips on getting prepared, and got to re-connect with some very dear friends that I made while I was interning in Honduras for 6 months. You know who you are... all the way in Brazil (Indiana) :)
I'm so excited that I have this time to be back in the States with my family and friends, but God has kept a huge part of my heart in Honduras, and I am anxious to get back there!!! I am praying and looking for prayer partners. I have a lot of funds that I need covered before I can go back, but more important than money, I need to be covered with prayer! Will you please join me in prayer that I might do the Father's will. Here are some specific prayer requests that you could pray believing...
1.)That God will continue to place people in my life to help me in all areas of preparation.
2.)That God will open doors, and make clear to me one step at a time the things I need to do to prepare myself and my heart for the field. ie any courses or training that I will need to have under my belt to be able minister better.
3.) That I would manage my time faithfully with my daily prayer and devotional time, keeping the friends that God has made interested in me up to date in my life and fund-raising process.
4.) For me not to be fearful and overwhelmed with all the tasks that lay before me.
5.) For protection and blessings on Trevor and Valerie Colby and their 2 children (the wonderful people that I lived with during my internship and whom I will work with when I return) that God would continue to bless the work that they are doing to spread the love of Christ, and that they would be in prayer seeking God's will for the mission and what role I will be able to fill in the future.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I will be posting more blogs sooner rather than later!
Thursday, 15 July 2010
Sewing = Almost no translation required
Silvia with a purse made from old jeans
Lorraine and Dora with Dora's 1st shirt she has EVER sewn!
Dora using a pattern for the sleeves of her shirt...1st time she ever used a pattern.
Dora practicing using the sewing maching with 2 ladies watching...the woman in blue is Nery, an employee at the Clinc.
Leah demonstrating how to thread the sewing machine. The woman crouched on the right is Maria, a volunteer at the Milk Project.This week the mission tested the waters for the sewing ministry for local women. It was awesome! Two women from Brazil, Indiana came down with a group and for three days shared their God-given talents and knowledge of sewing to 4 Honduran women. Utiliizing what we thought were simply non-usable clothes from the Clothing Ministry (clothes that are huge sizes, and styles that don't sell due to climate and that had all been sorted through and NOT purchased on drives or at the stores over a period of time) they taught us how to make usable, and hopefully, sellable clothes!!!
These two women, Leah and Barb, were two creative angels just bursting with sewing ideas to help the women and were overflowing with joy to be used by God. They taught the basics first: how to thread the sewing machine, fill the bobbin, and do basic stitches on the machine. Then they moved to how to make your own pattern, and how to utilize that. Side note: all of this was a learning experience for me too since I have never really sewn anything on my own! Then they took a regular T-shirt that was too big to fit anyone we know here and showed them how to make a brand new smaller sized shirt using the original! They also showed them how to make purses and tote bags from old jeans, or any material really, also how to make a drawstring backpack, skirts from pants, how to make a very stylish rug from braided strips from old jeans, how to take a zipper from one article of clothing and use it in a new item (a purse perhaps). The list goes on and on. It was all so cool to see these North American women so excited and furthermore seeing my Honduran friends just wide-eyed with excitement of the possibilities this meant for them. They were gobbling it all up!! It was a blessing to be able to translate for them. Although, I must say, a lot of the times it seemed that the language of sewing was talking for itself!
I hope to get pictures posted soon of the women in action and of some of their finished products. Still not crystal clear the direction God wants this sewing ministry to take, but the possiblities are very exciting. Women learning how to make usable items from basically trash, and hopefully being able to sell them on their own and earn a living from their homes. Very exciting stuff!!!
These two women, Leah and Barb, were two creative angels just bursting with sewing ideas to help the women and were overflowing with joy to be used by God. They taught the basics first: how to thread the sewing machine, fill the bobbin, and do basic stitches on the machine. Then they moved to how to make your own pattern, and how to utilize that. Side note: all of this was a learning experience for me too since I have never really sewn anything on my own! Then they took a regular T-shirt that was too big to fit anyone we know here and showed them how to make a brand new smaller sized shirt using the original! They also showed them how to make purses and tote bags from old jeans, or any material really, also how to make a drawstring backpack, skirts from pants, how to make a very stylish rug from braided strips from old jeans, how to take a zipper from one article of clothing and use it in a new item (a purse perhaps). The list goes on and on. It was all so cool to see these North American women so excited and furthermore seeing my Honduran friends just wide-eyed with excitement of the possibilities this meant for them. They were gobbling it all up!! It was a blessing to be able to translate for them. Although, I must say, a lot of the times it seemed that the language of sewing was talking for itself!
I hope to get pictures posted soon of the women in action and of some of their finished products. Still not crystal clear the direction God wants this sewing ministry to take, but the possiblities are very exciting. Women learning how to make usable items from basically trash, and hopefully being able to sell them on their own and earn a living from their homes. Very exciting stuff!!!
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