Happy Valentine's Day...well yesterday for most people reading this...
We have had an incredible past two weeks. Firstly we are both well...my tonsillitis has gone down and Sarah was finally able to shake that annoying flu which hung around for four weeks.
Also...We owe a huge THANKS to everyone who has been giving and supporting us in prayer and finances for our mission trips. We have been incredibly blessed with over $1200 this week alone! My trip to Ecuador has been paid off! and we only have $835 to go for Sarah's trip to Honduras! We need this by Friday 18th February, so if you feel led to support us in this way, you can give anonymously by using the link below or our bank details are in the right hand column - every dollar counts. THANK YOU again and again to everyone who has supported us so far, it means the world to us! God is soo good.
https://www.ibssm.org/?action=donate&target=missions&student_id=210951
Ben to Ecuador - 11th - 21st March
Sarah to Honduras - 22nd - 31st March
After jumping through a few hoops...we have been successful in finding an apartment! We put the deposit down on Wednesday, and we move in on the 10th March. The new place is much newer, and is being remodeled before we move in. The complex the apartment is in has tennis/basketball courts and well as a pool, spa, sauna and pool table room, and our rent is going to be a lot cheaper. It is a huge blessing!
Once again, school has been incredible. We had an electrical engineer speak about creation and the science behind 'sound'. He had some amazing videos of experiments that he had done to show the power of sound and the spoken word. Then talked to us about how "life and death is in the power is the tongue" (Prov 18:21), and the power of our words (James). "What we speak has power and we don't always see the effects".
Also in our leadership development we had to write out ten core values (non-negotiable's) in our lives. This proved to be a bit of a challenge for me, but after reading and copying a few of Sarah's I was good. ha.
We also have the opportunity to head down into San Francisco on a ministry trip this coming weekend, which we are very excited for!!
Some friends of ours here are in need of some urgent prayer, so if you could please pray and partner with us for their healing!
1. Tim - He has stage four cancer and has also just had surgery to remove a hernia, but he is having problems with water retention, and a few other side effects. He went back into hospital today.
2. Joshua Caleb - He is a two year old boy with very aggressive cancer. His dad (Jimmy) is in my small group. The cancer first started behind his left eye, but after recent tests they have found it to have spread throughout his body.
We are declaring full and complete healing, quick recovery, and peace upon both of their families!!
We hope you are all well and loving life as much as we are! Have a great week!!
Monday, February 14, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Diners, diners, diners...
Hello lovely everyone whom we love...
The past few weeks have been busy, fun filled, experiential and we are falling more in love with a good God everyday!
Sy Rogers has just been to visit our school, which was amazing and extremely humourous, as per usual. One of my favourite parts of this time, was watching all the guys faces when he started to speak, which is of course what Sy first addresses as he says, "I'll over look your residue, if you overlook mine!" God has really been putting on my heart the importance of speaking the truth about people, not what we perceive to be the truth about someone, but rather what God says is the truth about us and them. How can we lead someone into their God given destiny if we are lying to them and ourselves about who we are? It's a good time to get rid of generalizations and start learning Gods truth about his creations.
Also this week on our outreach, we had the most amazing time. We are finding out what it truely feels like to love the poor like Jesus did, and how to enjoy what that love can do and who it can set free. Update from our first blog on our two friends Jesse and Shell. This last Saturday our dear Jesse gave his life to the Lord!!! Yay!! What could be a better day than that! Since we had been praying for him and ministering to him, his family is being restored to him. His father whom he hasn't seen in 8 years has moved to where he is, as well as his mother whom he hasn't seen in 6 years. And the lovely Shell is just lighting up from the inside out. She was having really big financial problems and payments that were being blocked. So afters a few weeks of asking her if she would like me to pray with her she finally let me. She had told me "Every time someone prays for me it gets worse." I told her I pray to a different God, one who hears and answers his children. A God who is good, so she let me pray. She now is getting all the welfare support that is owed to her, and extremely happy. So thank you to any of you who have prayed for our friends. God is really moving at Cascade Apartments. (where we go to feed the homeless)
We have just got home from starting our first SOZO training, which is the inner healing ministry hear. SOZO, a NT greek word, meaning to 'heal, save, make well or whole'. It refers to the healing of Spirit, Soul and Body! This is what we long to see, and will see!!! It was amazing learning about it. We will update you on this further on this. We really believe in this, which why we are getting the training so we can then minister in it.
Australia Day was a bit of a none event for us, which was pretty depressing. Although we did get two of them. We went to Outback Steakhouse to celebrate, it was the closest we could get to home. Dorothy was right when she said "there's no place like home." Please someone create a teleport so we can celebrate special days in oz! We lusted over some pictures of Australians basking in the sunshine and celebrations on the net... then we had to move on back to our winter.
Benny is now 23! Yay!!! He had a nice day. I made him blueberry pancakes for breakfast... then off to school. For dinner we had some friends and family over to share in a feast of Lamb Shanks and Pavlova. Lets just say you should buy lamb only in the country it comes from, and Pavlova will always remain glorified on the taste buds! He has tonsillitis at the moment, so please send a prayer away!!
Next month we are looking to move out of our little apartment and into a 2 bedroom place with our friends Yari and Scott. It will be sad to say goodbye to number 68 Pepper Tree, our first love nest as a married couple but exciting to share a new season with great friends. We were blessed with a vacuum cleaner and a television this week from our lovely neighbour, Ellen, and that makes us so happy.
Lastly thank you to our family (Freddy, Helen and Matty) for loving us enough to put themselves through a garage sale. And thank you for not selling my cabbage patch kids. You have totally blessed us. We can live again!!
Please continue to pray for financial support for our mission trips, as we still need $2000 by the 18th of Feb.
Love you all so much... and thank you for reading!
The past few weeks have been busy, fun filled, experiential and we are falling more in love with a good God everyday!
Sy Rogers has just been to visit our school, which was amazing and extremely humourous, as per usual. One of my favourite parts of this time, was watching all the guys faces when he started to speak, which is of course what Sy first addresses as he says, "I'll over look your residue, if you overlook mine!" God has really been putting on my heart the importance of speaking the truth about people, not what we perceive to be the truth about someone, but rather what God says is the truth about us and them. How can we lead someone into their God given destiny if we are lying to them and ourselves about who we are? It's a good time to get rid of generalizations and start learning Gods truth about his creations.
Also this week on our outreach, we had the most amazing time. We are finding out what it truely feels like to love the poor like Jesus did, and how to enjoy what that love can do and who it can set free. Update from our first blog on our two friends Jesse and Shell. This last Saturday our dear Jesse gave his life to the Lord!!! Yay!! What could be a better day than that! Since we had been praying for him and ministering to him, his family is being restored to him. His father whom he hasn't seen in 8 years has moved to where he is, as well as his mother whom he hasn't seen in 6 years. And the lovely Shell is just lighting up from the inside out. She was having really big financial problems and payments that were being blocked. So afters a few weeks of asking her if she would like me to pray with her she finally let me. She had told me "Every time someone prays for me it gets worse." I told her I pray to a different God, one who hears and answers his children. A God who is good, so she let me pray. She now is getting all the welfare support that is owed to her, and extremely happy. So thank you to any of you who have prayed for our friends. God is really moving at Cascade Apartments. (where we go to feed the homeless)
We have just got home from starting our first SOZO training, which is the inner healing ministry hear. SOZO, a NT greek word, meaning to 'heal, save, make well or whole'. It refers to the healing of Spirit, Soul and Body! This is what we long to see, and will see!!! It was amazing learning about it. We will update you on this further on this. We really believe in this, which why we are getting the training so we can then minister in it.
Australia Day was a bit of a none event for us, which was pretty depressing. Although we did get two of them. We went to Outback Steakhouse to celebrate, it was the closest we could get to home. Dorothy was right when she said "there's no place like home." Please someone create a teleport so we can celebrate special days in oz! We lusted over some pictures of Australians basking in the sunshine and celebrations on the net... then we had to move on back to our winter.
Benny is now 23! Yay!!! He had a nice day. I made him blueberry pancakes for breakfast... then off to school. For dinner we had some friends and family over to share in a feast of Lamb Shanks and Pavlova. Lets just say you should buy lamb only in the country it comes from, and Pavlova will always remain glorified on the taste buds! He has tonsillitis at the moment, so please send a prayer away!!
Next month we are looking to move out of our little apartment and into a 2 bedroom place with our friends Yari and Scott. It will be sad to say goodbye to number 68 Pepper Tree, our first love nest as a married couple but exciting to share a new season with great friends. We were blessed with a vacuum cleaner and a television this week from our lovely neighbour, Ellen, and that makes us so happy.
Lastly thank you to our family (Freddy, Helen and Matty) for loving us enough to put themselves through a garage sale. And thank you for not selling my cabbage patch kids. You have totally blessed us. We can live again!!
Please continue to pray for financial support for our mission trips, as we still need $2000 by the 18th of Feb.
Love you all so much... and thank you for reading!
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