Wednesday, December 30, 2009
home again
so i realized that haiti truly has become another home to me...i knew this before but with each trip it sets in a little more...i dont even really back anymore...just throw some things in a bag...and make sure to have two full suitcases of goodies and things needed for the ones i love here. and what else...no big events...just come in and do daily life like before. and an awesome bonus...everytime i return my haitian creole is better. so thats definitely a plus!
its been AMAZING being here as always. the nannies and the kids...i cant tell you how much i miss them when i am away...because its ridiculous...but my season now is not to be here permanently and i am at peace with that...just glad i have gotten to come twice in the last year...what a blessing!
i found out the day i left that kervens was going to be in Gonaives and when i got to the house dorothy told me he wasnt coming back until saturday...i wont lie thats been really hard. i miss him so much...and really wanted some good quality time with him...so i will have to make the most of saturday through monday afternoon with him...but my heart doesnt like it right now....sleeping in his bed...but wish i could say night time prayers with him and sleep somewhere else...God surely has a reason. so praying about it and really focusing on lovin on everyone else...
speaking of everyone else...a certain someone...My lil man Poutchino is walking and standing....its a miracle that i among many others have been praying for! PRAISE GOD! he's been working on it for awhile...when casey was here i had heard about how he had gotten better and was pulling up more...then when i came for a month in aug-sept. 3 times he took about 5 steps to me...but NOW....oh my goodness...the boy stands without help for a LONG time...and can walk all the way across a room...and is SO confident. my heart is overwhelmed with joy...seriously one of the best miracles that i have been blessed to see...know...and have some sort of part in the story! what an honor....this little man...this miracle child...this gift from heaven...this face that lights up a room...this son of God...there is SO MUCH MORE in store...i know it!!!! but to see it all unfold...i am beyond blessed.
Dorothy has 22 children & babies in the house right now and i think altogether i just met 6...so i am doing good! there is also i think 2 new staff that i met...things are always changing...moving...creating...but i really believe thats how God is and how He created us...so its good. when we create we are impowered...when we move there is progress...when we change so can the world... "be the change you want to see in the world."- Ghandi
on that note...i'm gonna sign off...but i'm sure i will update you again. we have an inverter that works...so i have had access to internet all day...its kind of felt wierd...i'm not used to that.
anyway....m'espire tout moun gen bon nwit!
MESI POU TOUT BAGAY!
tasha rae
its been AMAZING being here as always. the nannies and the kids...i cant tell you how much i miss them when i am away...because its ridiculous...but my season now is not to be here permanently and i am at peace with that...just glad i have gotten to come twice in the last year...what a blessing!
i found out the day i left that kervens was going to be in Gonaives and when i got to the house dorothy told me he wasnt coming back until saturday...i wont lie thats been really hard. i miss him so much...and really wanted some good quality time with him...so i will have to make the most of saturday through monday afternoon with him...but my heart doesnt like it right now....sleeping in his bed...but wish i could say night time prayers with him and sleep somewhere else...God surely has a reason. so praying about it and really focusing on lovin on everyone else...
speaking of everyone else...a certain someone...My lil man Poutchino is walking and standing....its a miracle that i among many others have been praying for! PRAISE GOD! he's been working on it for awhile...when casey was here i had heard about how he had gotten better and was pulling up more...then when i came for a month in aug-sept. 3 times he took about 5 steps to me...but NOW....oh my goodness...the boy stands without help for a LONG time...and can walk all the way across a room...and is SO confident. my heart is overwhelmed with joy...seriously one of the best miracles that i have been blessed to see...know...and have some sort of part in the story! what an honor....this little man...this miracle child...this gift from heaven...this face that lights up a room...this son of God...there is SO MUCH MORE in store...i know it!!!! but to see it all unfold...i am beyond blessed.
Dorothy has 22 children & babies in the house right now and i think altogether i just met 6...so i am doing good! there is also i think 2 new staff that i met...things are always changing...moving...creating...but i really believe thats how God is and how He created us...so its good. when we create we are impowered...when we move there is progress...when we change so can the world... "be the change you want to see in the world."- Ghandi
on that note...i'm gonna sign off...but i'm sure i will update you again. we have an inverter that works...so i have had access to internet all day...its kind of felt wierd...i'm not used to that.
anyway....m'espire tout moun gen bon nwit!
MESI POU TOUT BAGAY!
tasha rae
Monday, December 28, 2009
haiti- my christmas present!
i dont know that i have i informed everyone....
i leave tomorrow for haiti...(my christmas present from my parents. an amazing blessing). so i am going a week before the team to be with dorothy and the kiddos there. plus i have a bag full of medicines from christian light foundation for her... plus a bag full from MM. i am still going as a MM missionary.
lots of people ask me...'when do you work at the market place or much ministries?'... everything that i am involved in falls under and within being a much ministries missionary... its a lifestyle. all the things i am connected with are a part of transformation and adding strength to what MM is already doing... whether its organizing the cool stuff store at the market place, distributing food at the BMC, serving coffee and talking about why fair trade is important at wake up coffee shop, going to home group to worship and sing with young adults, or flying to haiti to bring medicines and hold babies...all thee above are part of the blessing of being a MM missionary. i am extremely honored.
this holiday season has been hard...not necessarily in a bad way as i am beyond blessed...i have a roof over my head...food to eat...clothes to wear...and SO many lovely people in my life...but it was the first christmas not in kansas city with my family and friends...my first christmas that i really didnt give any presents as my finances are so low. trusting God to work it all out...but the process of that is going very slowly. every month it works out somehow...
but this month i will be in haiti and bills will come out of my account and i dont even know how the money will get in there...but i am trusting that it will. because God is a God that provides...He loves his daughter and somehow it will work out.
yes i wont lie its been really hard at times being here not knowing if this is really it when i have become the type of person that never fills up the tank in my car...$3 dollars will get me where i need to go and somehow the next $5 will come when that much gas is gone...and by no surprise really it always works out...BECAUSE GOD IS GOOD!
so there you have it...my christmas season has been great...different, but good. i am so blessed and excited about haiti and seeing all my lovely babies and family there...but praying for finances...
thanks for your prayers...support...encouragement and more...to all those that read this mess of a blog...my ramblings and short synopses.
love love love
i leave tomorrow for haiti...(my christmas present from my parents. an amazing blessing). so i am going a week before the team to be with dorothy and the kiddos there. plus i have a bag full of medicines from christian light foundation for her... plus a bag full from MM. i am still going as a MM missionary.
lots of people ask me...'when do you work at the market place or much ministries?'... everything that i am involved in falls under and within being a much ministries missionary... its a lifestyle. all the things i am connected with are a part of transformation and adding strength to what MM is already doing... whether its organizing the cool stuff store at the market place, distributing food at the BMC, serving coffee and talking about why fair trade is important at wake up coffee shop, going to home group to worship and sing with young adults, or flying to haiti to bring medicines and hold babies...all thee above are part of the blessing of being a MM missionary. i am extremely honored.
this holiday season has been hard...not necessarily in a bad way as i am beyond blessed...i have a roof over my head...food to eat...clothes to wear...and SO many lovely people in my life...but it was the first christmas not in kansas city with my family and friends...my first christmas that i really didnt give any presents as my finances are so low. trusting God to work it all out...but the process of that is going very slowly. every month it works out somehow...
but this month i will be in haiti and bills will come out of my account and i dont even know how the money will get in there...but i am trusting that it will. because God is a God that provides...He loves his daughter and somehow it will work out.
yes i wont lie its been really hard at times being here not knowing if this is really it when i have become the type of person that never fills up the tank in my car...$3 dollars will get me where i need to go and somehow the next $5 will come when that much gas is gone...and by no surprise really it always works out...BECAUSE GOD IS GOOD!
so there you have it...my christmas season has been great...different, but good. i am so blessed and excited about haiti and seeing all my lovely babies and family there...but praying for finances...
thanks for your prayers...support...encouragement and more...to all those that read this mess of a blog...my ramblings and short synopses.
love love love
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Lindsay Morris
So my new friend...
shes becoming my partner in crime...actually more like ministry...but if anyone thinks of a fun name for us...like bonnie & clyde we are looking... (wink)
anyway...i dont know if i have mentioned her already, but she is a huge blessing. i do much better working in a team than individually and she brings something really great to the days that i am at the BMC (baptist ministry center) right now i am there on mondays and wednesdays, but she is only coming on wednesdays...but let me tell you it IS a blessing.
we hand out food, but then we will go visit people in the neighborhood together and the last 3 or 4 weeks we have taken girls to eat at the only restaurant near the BMC called twin oaks. we are building a good relationship with them. in fact me and lindsay were talking and realizing that most of the employees at twin oaks probably are from the neighborhood or have a story similar to the girls we are working with now...we need to invest in them just as much.
in fact...some of you know that this community i am in here is more charasmatic than i have ever been involved with before. i few months ago north island church (which is where i go most of the time) did a prophecy convention with some people that came in from atlanta. so i decided we needed to practice some of the skills that they taught at twin oaks.
so God gave us a word for the woman giving us our food. we also asked God to tell us her name...lindsay got brandi and i got jodi...not the same name, but same ending...well her name was daphine...so the i part on the end was right...we are still learning to listen to God when He tells us things. bc i really do believe that when you speak into someones life...the impact can be huge and when its a complete stranger and God uses you its even more impactful.
i want to be able to speak into peoples lives and do it well. listen to God and bring words of life! in Gods word we are told many many times that the power of the tongue either brings life or death. i want the discernment, boldness, clarity and wisdom to really hear the Lord and speak words of life to those all around me.
so all those rambles to say...Lindsay is a wonderful partner in ministry at the BMC. she is bold, gracious, encouraging, and so much more. a great resource as she also works will braveheart and care-net here in brunswick.
plus she is really becoming a wonderful friend to me in this community here. i have nothing but great things to say about her!
shes becoming my partner in crime...actually more like ministry...but if anyone thinks of a fun name for us...like bonnie & clyde we are looking... (wink)
anyway...i dont know if i have mentioned her already, but she is a huge blessing. i do much better working in a team than individually and she brings something really great to the days that i am at the BMC (baptist ministry center) right now i am there on mondays and wednesdays, but she is only coming on wednesdays...but let me tell you it IS a blessing.
we hand out food, but then we will go visit people in the neighborhood together and the last 3 or 4 weeks we have taken girls to eat at the only restaurant near the BMC called twin oaks. we are building a good relationship with them. in fact me and lindsay were talking and realizing that most of the employees at twin oaks probably are from the neighborhood or have a story similar to the girls we are working with now...we need to invest in them just as much.
in fact...some of you know that this community i am in here is more charasmatic than i have ever been involved with before. i few months ago north island church (which is where i go most of the time) did a prophecy convention with some people that came in from atlanta. so i decided we needed to practice some of the skills that they taught at twin oaks.
so God gave us a word for the woman giving us our food. we also asked God to tell us her name...lindsay got brandi and i got jodi...not the same name, but same ending...well her name was daphine...so the i part on the end was right...we are still learning to listen to God when He tells us things. bc i really do believe that when you speak into someones life...the impact can be huge and when its a complete stranger and God uses you its even more impactful.
i want to be able to speak into peoples lives and do it well. listen to God and bring words of life! in Gods word we are told many many times that the power of the tongue either brings life or death. i want the discernment, boldness, clarity and wisdom to really hear the Lord and speak words of life to those all around me.
so all those rambles to say...Lindsay is a wonderful partner in ministry at the BMC. she is bold, gracious, encouraging, and so much more. a great resource as she also works will braveheart and care-net here in brunswick.
plus she is really becoming a wonderful friend to me in this community here. i have nothing but great things to say about her!
Saturday, December 5, 2009
check it out!
here is the link to the coffee shop that i am working at...its truly lovely. pray with me about opening one in kcmo...i have told bo mann that i want him to franchise one out there...so from MM to Wake Up...to Freedom Fire and my dear friend Sarah Beth...one day i pray for this vision of creating a community of transformation and freedom to work out in kansas city mo!!! PRAY WITH ME!
wake up coffee company
love love love
wake up coffee company
love love love
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
wow
its been a long minute since i have written on here...for that i apologize...but life is moving and life is good!
i went to kansas city for thanksgiving...a fast trip as i was only there for a total of 4 full days. however i was able to see most everyone i love for a brief amount of time...not all, but it was a blessing.
thanksgiving with the family was wonderful...we didnt watch braveheart and if you know me you know that is one thing i brag about in my family...for the past 10-12 years we watch that movie...its great. i think the tradition and my family have officially had the breakup...i'm dealing... lol
anyway...i am back here in southeast georgia and its wonderful. everytime i go home i am stirred about the potential kcmo has to create a culture and atmosphere the way much ministries has here.
i have a much more structure schedule these days as i think i have mentioned before. it is SO helpful for my spirit...i have not always been a self motivated person...and although i love flexibility and going with the flow...structure really allows for me to be productive...so i am learning the healthy balance of both.
in terms of the urban house that we were exploring...it doesn't seem to be going anywhere...i have been on a roller coaster in my spirit about it...one day i love it and want it to happen the next day i am discouraged and confused...one day i have peace and then the next minute all i can say is I DONT KNOW... so we are still praying into it...but i personally don't have clarity on what the Lord is doing or calling me to do in it.
i talked with the woman Danya who owns the house to touch base with her and let her know that i haven't found anyone to live in the house with me...and i cannot do it alone. i definitely am spending more time in the neighborhood and meeting more people...praying for more...but in terms of living in the urban core of brunswick...i don't know where it is all going.
we did tell her that we would have a definite answer to her by the beginning of january so i was feeling a lot of pressure to have committed people and a firm confidence that this was suppose to happen...however i talked to Dayna and she expressed that she is fine...all she needs is at least 30 days to help the people renting the rooms now find a new place...she said.."maybe january is not right, maybe it will happen in april, maybe it will happen in march, maybe it wont happen until august of 2010, but i still believe it has great potential!" hearing her say that gave me peace...and lifted a weight off my shoulders. now we can still pray into it...ask for clarity...but have no exact time frame...so there is more room to make connections...more space for God to move...
i am loving my routine...living in the cottage, investing in the norwich corridor area (where the house would be) 2 days a week...working at wake up (the coffee shop) 2 days a week...and working at the marketplace 2 days a week...it's really lovely...doing my best to learn as much as i can in each place...
i realized that i haven't done the best job of living deliberately since i have been here...but the more i go back to kansas city the more i see the potential in expanding much ministries there. and the more i realize that i need to really do a better job at taking advantage of the gift God has given me here. i need to soak it ALL up and really learn all i can while i am here. this is my training for something...don't want anything to pass me by...don't want to look back and think why wasn't i living deliberately.
i have been challenged to ask mama kathy & papa beaver at least one question a week...things to help me understand more of what it takes to run businesses and create a culture that invites the holy spirit in...everything.
my question this week to the mama & papa is 'what are 5 things that you know now, but wish you would have known in the beginning?' so we'll see... i will try to post what i learn from the questions mainly to help me keep a log of this stuff, but also to let you learn with me...or better yet dialogue with me.
i went to kansas city for thanksgiving...a fast trip as i was only there for a total of 4 full days. however i was able to see most everyone i love for a brief amount of time...not all, but it was a blessing.
thanksgiving with the family was wonderful...we didnt watch braveheart and if you know me you know that is one thing i brag about in my family...for the past 10-12 years we watch that movie...its great. i think the tradition and my family have officially had the breakup...i'm dealing... lol
anyway...i am back here in southeast georgia and its wonderful. everytime i go home i am stirred about the potential kcmo has to create a culture and atmosphere the way much ministries has here.
i have a much more structure schedule these days as i think i have mentioned before. it is SO helpful for my spirit...i have not always been a self motivated person...and although i love flexibility and going with the flow...structure really allows for me to be productive...so i am learning the healthy balance of both.
in terms of the urban house that we were exploring...it doesn't seem to be going anywhere...i have been on a roller coaster in my spirit about it...one day i love it and want it to happen the next day i am discouraged and confused...one day i have peace and then the next minute all i can say is I DONT KNOW... so we are still praying into it...but i personally don't have clarity on what the Lord is doing or calling me to do in it.
i talked with the woman Danya who owns the house to touch base with her and let her know that i haven't found anyone to live in the house with me...and i cannot do it alone. i definitely am spending more time in the neighborhood and meeting more people...praying for more...but in terms of living in the urban core of brunswick...i don't know where it is all going.
we did tell her that we would have a definite answer to her by the beginning of january so i was feeling a lot of pressure to have committed people and a firm confidence that this was suppose to happen...however i talked to Dayna and she expressed that she is fine...all she needs is at least 30 days to help the people renting the rooms now find a new place...she said.."maybe january is not right, maybe it will happen in april, maybe it will happen in march, maybe it wont happen until august of 2010, but i still believe it has great potential!" hearing her say that gave me peace...and lifted a weight off my shoulders. now we can still pray into it...ask for clarity...but have no exact time frame...so there is more room to make connections...more space for God to move...
i am loving my routine...living in the cottage, investing in the norwich corridor area (where the house would be) 2 days a week...working at wake up (the coffee shop) 2 days a week...and working at the marketplace 2 days a week...it's really lovely...doing my best to learn as much as i can in each place...
i realized that i haven't done the best job of living deliberately since i have been here...but the more i go back to kansas city the more i see the potential in expanding much ministries there. and the more i realize that i need to really do a better job at taking advantage of the gift God has given me here. i need to soak it ALL up and really learn all i can while i am here. this is my training for something...don't want anything to pass me by...don't want to look back and think why wasn't i living deliberately.
i have been challenged to ask mama kathy & papa beaver at least one question a week...things to help me understand more of what it takes to run businesses and create a culture that invites the holy spirit in...everything.
my question this week to the mama & papa is 'what are 5 things that you know now, but wish you would have known in the beginning?' so we'll see... i will try to post what i learn from the questions mainly to help me keep a log of this stuff, but also to let you learn with me...or better yet dialogue with me.
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