Excited

This summer has been a busy one with traveling around and seeing different people and meeting new friends that are going to other NICS and OASIS schools all around the world. I spent two weeks in Memphis at Pre Field Orientation which is training that all new teachers go to, to learn how to relate to the students that we encounter on a day to day routine. THis Here I got to have a small group of 4 amazing young women who have been called to go to 4 different countries. I loved hanging out with these girls they reminded me of how faithful God has been to me these last two years and how He has calmed all the worries and fears I had about packing up and leaving my comfort zone to Ghana.

I thank God that He has put me in GHana and that I am blessed to go back to Ghana for a third year. Not only am I blessed to be going back but I am blessed with about 21 students nine of which are new to the school. THat means I get nine new students to introduce to Jesus or help them grow deeper with him. I am also thankful for students that I would have never thought I would be in contact with this year. One I think of in general who is going in to 12th grade this year and just the conversations that I got to have with about Christ. I wrote earlier this year about a student who after a soccer game waiting for his parents and looking at the moon and the stars, which you can see very clearly in GHana, talking about who created all of this and why. THen just this past week he messaged me on Facebook to see if the soccer coach had Facebook because he had a question for her. So I asked him how he was doing and I let him know that I was praying for him. (I should say that I have been praying for this student ever since we had that conversation in March, I can remember because it was the monday before my birthday.) I then got a message back saying really you are praying for me. All he said was wow. THen he went on to ask me to pray for him to be a good kid, and that he would not make his mom sad, and that he graduates. I of course said of course but i also told him that he could pray to Christ too because He loves him and cares for him and he listens to him too. I also told him that we all make mistakes and that is why Christ came to earth to die and to forgive us, and that His grace covers us. Just pray for this student that his heart would be opened to who Christ is. THe seeds have been planted and I am praying the God works in his life and brings him into the family.

I still have a couple of weeks left in the states. It is funny how in the last two weeks i have had this yearning to get back to GHana and back to these students. I am so excited for this year and the ministry I have with these students. I think I am more excited because i have a relationship with these students now and they have gotten to know me the last two years and hopefully begin to trust me.

Please Pray for these students that I will come in contact with this year. As I coach volleyball, work in the mentoring program and teach. Pray for the families that I will come in contact also. That I can share Christ with these families. That my enthusiasm will stretch throughout the year.

I want to leave with a verse that i came upon this week that I think is a great promise that is confirmed all the time over seas but also is an encouragement to those who are showing Christ to people in their neighborhoods, jobs, schools, and communities.

we have troubles all around us, but we are not defeated. We do not know what to do, but we do not give up the hope of living. We are persecuted, but GOd does not leave us. We hurt sometimes but we are not destroyed.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9