Prayer Requests

• Please pray for safe travels, my dad and I leave tomorrow to fly to Lima then on Tuesday we take an eight hour bus ride to Trujillo. My dad will be staying a week and then returning.
• Pray that as God created a language barrier for his purposes at the Tower of Babel He would also break the barrier for His purposes. That I would learn to communicate the truths of the Bible through words and action.
• Pray that I would remain strong in my personal walk with God and that the children there would desire such a relationship with their heavenly father.
• Finally pray that I would just be able to forget about myself and serve diligently wherever is needed whether it be playing soccer with the kids or cutting up onions in the kitchen. I want to go to the orphanage and though they can forget me the moment I leave; I don't want them to ever forget the God who I serve. My hope and prayer for these children is that they are receiving a foundation for their spiritual and physical life in order that they can be a light to the world.

Packing Up

Here is my first picture. I was experimenting with my new camera to make sure I could get pictures off of it and onto my blog; since, sometimes I can be technically challenged or maybe it is technically uninterested. Any way after some help from Jordan getting the picture rotated the project is complete.
I thought I could fit everything in one bag and a carry on but because of the weight restrictions cramming doesn't help. So I will have to use my dad's carry on as well.

My hero is Jim Elliot. As I do mission work whether at home or overseas my desires are summed up by his quote "He is no fool who gives what he can not keep to gain what he can not lose."
Whether it is money, time, energy, sleep, health, or life it is worth it in eternity.

Spreading Hope away from Home

The count down has begun for my trip to Peru. I leave September 1^st and will be gone for three months. I am amazed and excited about the opportunity God has opened for me to go to Trujillo, Peru to serve Him at an orphanage. James 1:27 says “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” I have wanted to go on the mission field as long as I can remember, and my desire was always to work with children. My dad will be traveling down with me, and he will be staying for a week before returning home. The little I know about what my jobs will be at the orphanage are working as a school assistant and working with children in language therapy in the afternoons. Please pray that I will be a tool in our Father’s hands. Also pray for traveling mercies for my dad and I as we try to find our way around a Spanish speaking world! The name of the orphanage I will be serving at is Hogar De Esperanza “Home of Hope”.