week 12 the finale week !

The Finale week is here in my Children at Risk school ! Week 12 is here and the speaker was Phil Gazley and he spoke via skype on Refugees and Immigrants and his experience in working with the families and people he gave his knowledge of what to do in different situations and how when you want to work with them you need to form a team and decied who is going to lead the team who is going to do things like cook and all the things that come with team work he gave alot of statistics and and we watched a bunch of videos of what a situations looks like when people are refugees and immigrants. One thing was really difficult due to not having a teacher in front it was hard to understand everything that he was talking about but I did get out of it his passion for helping others and he has so much knowledge . This week was definanlty I would have to say the weirdest week in my CRS we astarted the week on Friday with 2 classes and then one on Saturday and then finsihed the week yesterday with 2 more classes what it would be like to be done with school I don't believe reality has hit yet. God has changed my life so much in this past 12 weeks looking over it has been super awesome realizing just how much God has opened my eyes to the needs around me to where I can know longer walk around with a blind eye to the needs we face . I just want to get out and make a difference in the world around me and change lives God has blessed me so much in my life and I in turn want to bless others. I want to be a empty vessel for the lord ready to be used and filled up in whatever way he desires he has become my stronge refugee a place I know I can always go to and be safe and enven when others turn against me he will never. I am so thankful to God for this oppertunity to have learned all this knowleged even thought right now after 12 weeks I feel like I could explode I would not change these tough amazing week for anything Plan are still underway to move to Jaco for my outreach I am leaveing either Sunday or Monday travleing with a friend who we will be rooming together I am super excited for what God has for me there . I will be writing blogs during my time but my plan is once i get to Jaco and get settled I will sit down and blog about the last 12 weeks a little summary of my life and what I will be doing in Jaco . Just so everyone knows in spanish the J is a H sound so Jaco actually sounds like Haco . Thank you everyone who has read my blogs i hope you all enjoy them and will continue to do so . Prayers are still needed for finances,health ,protection and for me to be a blessing in my time there in Jaco .

week 11

Here is one my final blogs for my Children at Risk scool as we have one week left . This week the speaker was Greg Bruch and he just recently moved back to the states after living her in Costa Rica for many years. He came and spoke on Celebrating children and how having a child policy when working with children is so importants especially when working with groups of children and when having other teams come in to help you out, he also gave his veiw on how you should never work with a group of children alonw so nothing questionable coud happen it was very interesting to here because i never really thought about it until he said it but it made so much sense to me. he also had us write up a child policy for when we go to our mission places it really made me think about it in a totally different view . This week has kinda been a weird week as far as emotions go as reality is hitting that we only have one week left here and the thought is so weird to me in so many ways . I am super excited to let you all know that next sunday I will be moving to Jaco but also at the same time it's a weird thought . My time here in San Jose Costa Rica has been so awesome yes it's has it;s bumps along the way but all of them were so worth it because without them I would not be in the place that I am now my relationship with the lord is stronger and better then it has ever been my love for prayer is awesome prayer is one thing that I feel so passionate about my love for children and the needs around us has never been this way before the way i value others is only given by God he is so much more real to me then ever before. As I sit and look back over these 3 months I am truly amazed at where God has brought me and the change he has done in my life his faithfulness has never been so real to me. One thing I believe more and more everyday  is that God does answer prayers sometimes it's just not in our timing and it's so much better that it teaches us patience and trust . So here is just a few prayer request as I make my final plans please prayer for me as I finished up this week and all that is instore as I say goodbyes to the many amazing people that I have met and spent the past 3 months with as I transition into a new place that I would continue to grow in my relationship with the lord and the people around me . As I work in Jaco with the children and helping the Freemans that I would go in empty handed ready to do what ever and to be filled up with what God wants me to be filled up with, for continued health and safty and for my finaces to be met . I will be writing a blog with in the nexts few weeks with a summary f the past 3 months and all that it held. :)

week 10

Another week has come and gone already I can't believe it but I am now blogging about week  10 . This week was a bit different then most weeks with having four different topics in the same week it makes for a very full week. On Monday Leslie Freeman spoke on Children with disabilities and how they are just as important and any one of us and how God just made them special. :) On Tuesday She also spoke on Attatchment disorder and gave some examples of what causes it and showed us some videos of children who are not attached and explained how critical it is for attachment to start at the dy of birth and also explained that it is never to late to attach it just might take longer . On Wed we had Jill Aspegren come from Casa Viva which is a ministery here in San Jose Costa Rica  working with children in foster care . She shared her and her husbands story of how they got into this ministery . Thursday morning we had Worship and prayer with the Dts and Chove spoke, it was super awesome to watch as God moved in everyones heart .We serve an amazing God who's unfailing love is amazing and can't be expressed in words alone he gives us more then we deserve he died on the cross so we could have life he was willing to come down from heaven to earth  and give his life for us sinners he loved us while we were still sinners people this is what I call true love I am only beggining to truly understand what this means Christ has been so amazing in my life and I can not keep silent about it anymore .So this week was an eventful week alot of topics packed into 4 days . Ok as I have been saying for the past few weeks I am heading to Jaco Costa Rica right after school ends to do my 4 month outreach everything is set in stone my ticket is rebooked for January 25th 2012 I will be living in a hostile at Christian Surfers ,my time there will be spent working in a Public Preschool , helping the Freeman family in whatever area they need, studying spanish and  child development ,getting mentored by the Freemans  and anything else that will come up . When I get there and the schedual is made out I will be posting it so everyone can know what I am doing and when and also know how  to pray for me . With only 2 weeks left of school the pressure is on please pray for my school as we have a couple of packed weeks  pray for health and rest . God is moving within my school and it is amazing to see lives transformed through him . All I can say is the faithfulness of God never ceases to amaze me. This school has been super tough for me the first 7 weeks I would question to myself every week of why I am am here what am I doing but the peace I have these pass few weeks have truly shown me that through tough times is when your relationship with God is truly growing and he uses our weaknesses to show his strength .  Please pray for me in my new jourey as another chapter of my lifes book is soon to be coming to a close and another one is going to be starting .  :)

Blog week 9

Week 9 has come and gone already this week class was on Street Children and the speaker was Monty Gali he is based in Recife Brazil, it was a week like no other I thought when hearing what the topic was it was going to be all about what the street kids are like and how we can help them and well it was but it was that and so much more . On Monday it started out with a big bang like my faith was challenged from day one on just how much God loves us and how he wants what is best for us and how we need to trust him more and more with our needs because he is wanting to help us but his timing is never ours so many of these things I have heard and even quoeted but it wasn't until I heard him say it that it really hit home and I realized just how often I don't have the right faith but even in those times God is still faithful Monteys love and compassion for the needs around us greatly challeged me his passion for street children was so amazing and his faith in the lord is contagious and he challenged me so much in the first day that I was so excited I could hardly contain myself he then showed us pictures of what street children and families look like and shared stories of why many are on the streets . I have often times wondered why children choose to live on the streets well for the most part they don't or if they do it is because living on the streets is easier then living in an abusive situation,or whatever their home life is like Many of the street Children often times do not need food because they sniff glue and that fills them. It was amazing to hear the stories of how they minister to the street children one of the biggest things that stuck out to me was the fact that well I just never thought about it was that the street is their home and so when we go to their home we need to respect them . Just like we would have them respect our home if they came in it and just because we are going to minister to them does not mean we can come in with a ton of rules and expect them to follow them. This week was life changing to me in so many ways my prayer life is stronger and so is my faith and I trust in Gods timeing he will reveal to me his whole plan for my life .I can't believe school is ending right around the corner so much has happened already and I am excited for my nexts adventure in life as I will be making plans soon to move to Jaco and I just have this feeling that God has a big surprise for me when I get there I am so excited Gods ways are never our ways and his plans are not our plans whne originally I thought I would be going to Zimbabwe and then in one day everything changed one thing I find is that it is easier to follow God path then to try to form your own . Please continue to pray for me for my financual needs for direction once I am there for more faith and for my prayer life to grow stronger and for the people that I will be ministering to. The thing I walk away from this week the most is that God is so faithful.he continues to surprise me each day !