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Merry

12/20/2022

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I am currently merry.   It won't stay that way, but that's ok.  I have peace beyond understanding...well, when I remember Him who gives such peace.  

We prayed as a leadership yesterday for requests we all had...some overwhelming health concerns, big meetings/things to do, covering vacations in the clinic for the next couple weeks, things that need to get done/be accomplished/finished, hiring needs going into 2023.  

It wasn't all good or fun but regardless, we left merry and at peace.  
The Christmas card here is from one of the unsponsored children in The Milk Project in Las Botijas. 

​We have all the kids fill out the cards even though every year some don't have sponsors, because the alternative is more depressing.  In fact...God is their sponsor, that we can keep going while we look for more people to keep this going.  

I used to cry reading those cards, because I didn't have that perspective. 

While of late there has been a lot of potential stress, I am trying to keep on the other side of merry...the peaceful side beyond my own understanding.  
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I thought it was a reminder that others might appreciate.  This season gets filled with lots of expectations, lots of sometimes misplaces priorities and focus.  

While this card is from Rina, I thought I would great you with her same words meant for an unknown sponsor.  I send them to all of you, those known and unknown, as well: "I greet you with love and affection. I thank God for the opportunity you have given me.  Thank you for supporting us.  We are praying for you, that God will continue to bless you this Christmas and may God keep you always.  May you have a Merry Christmas with your family."
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Going

12/15/2022

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We are finishing the year in some aspects of the mission. 

For example, giving the kids in the Milk Project an end of the year an English test, and separate Bible test, to see how they are doing in both.  

Those in each class that got the highest marks, got some special gifts to reward them for their hard work.  

Christmas parties, gifts, and special meal as well come for all three projects, before the staff gets a couple weeks off to go into 2023.  

Lots of things don't end though...like church work, coffee harvesting, and more.  

I know I will be doing group planning, accounting, vehicle repair, and other errands right up to the end of the year...and starting again in the new year!  

Javier is seen here with the mission's old yellow motorcycle, currently helping him get around Guayabillas...or Guayavillas, or...I'm not sure exactly how to spell it yet.  It's one of those 
places not exactly on the map.

He has been working with the burgeoning church plant there for several months.  Praying about how we can help him moving into 2023.​

Prayers also we can finish the fundraising on the Coffee truck...we have not made hardly any progress on that end.  

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Sometimes in the past I have looked at the year coming up and thought/wished/prayed/hoped it would be a little more peaceful, a little easier going.  

I know it is not going to be easy going next year.  It is going to be busy, different, growing, and who knows what else.  This time though, for the most part, we are looking forward to it.  There is quite a bit of unknown, but even what we are planning will be interesting:
-lots more work on coming up with hospital plans
-starting work with the rural clinics
-17 or more teams!
-Need to hire several more people for key positions going forward
-more containers?  More food?
-looking forward to a next Milk Project location?  
-More training, conferences, and work
-trying to take the coffee farms to the next level!

What all will happen?  How?  When?  Can we pay for it all?  Is there time for it all?  I'm not worried...God is in control, and anything we do will be by Him anyway, so we will just start taking steps and try to wait and walk in Him as He leads!  Actually...we won't be able to do any of it without Him anyway, so even better to be at peace with it!
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leaning

12/6/2022

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It is cool to see a plan form, then implemented, and the results from that.  Sometimes though, you get to see things come together without perhaps being able to say you saw that coming.  

The decorations on the right here for the Milk Project are something Maria has been working on all year...collecting pine cones.  But then, her seeing that we were using spray paint with a group in September, gave her the idea that if we had leftover paint...she could make them even more festive.  

Ingenuity...I have seen quite a bit of that here over the years.  So much so sometimes it becomes the norm, but I like to be surprised/refreshed by it now and then rather than taking it for granted.  
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The organization Bring Good News has made funds available for us in the past to put on conferences for pastors and church leaders, using an organization here that specializes in that, called Walk Through the Bible.  

We were able to do another one (finally after COVID protocols have been relaxed enough) and through some "planning" all three of the Milk Project staff were able to be there together, and have a little meeting of their own the same day.  
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I had a chance yesterday to talk with the team now in Honduras from Casas Por Cristo, an organization that builds homes through pastoral networks, hoping to help the church do outreach into their communities, reaching people for Christ through helping them physically, specifically through home building.  They are praying about where to set up shop in Honduras, and how that will unfold (so you can be praying for them...lots of need, lots of possibilities) but it was also very cool to see how many times it seemed like a small world just talking about their general experiences, places in Honduras, opportunities, connections, etc.  

It reminds me that while right now looking at the soon beginning new year, and the changes coming, and potential changes/growth/hiring/building/etc. coming...that we have to trust, obey, follow and move, trusting God will bring it all together.  That faith...beyond what we can see but leaning on the everlasting arms.  

Funny how there is such joy in that...and yet, to be honest, also at least a bit of trepidation, mostly related to how I could screw things up.  

Even as areas around us in Tegucigalpa enter later today into a "state of exception" where certain constitutional rights will be forfeited in order to try to prevent extorsion and problems from gangs, meaning, apparently, that the police can pick up anyone they even suspect of committing, assisting, or benefitting from a crime.  This will last for thirty days.  

Sounds a bit scary to be honest, especially looking into the future of how this will be implemented and seeing just unknown (some of those 89 areas are directly around us.)

Apparently the writer of Leaning on the Everlasting Arms wrote that hymn in 1887 after two friends wrote him letting him know both their wives had died.  He wrote back, including the verse "The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms" (Deuteronomy 33:27)  He thought about that...and coo coo ca choo, came the hymn.  

So, we will keep walking, but not alone, and not by our own power.  We will, we must...keep​ leaning on the everlasting arms.

Want to hear a cool version of this hymn?
Early Sons of the Pioneers  this one made me cry
The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi this one made me move

Got one I missed you love?  Share it!
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