The Next Step

I want to take this time to update you on the next stage of ministry I’ll be entering as of next week. Originally I was planning on living in the Tumaini Home as a mother/aunt figure.  However I feel God leading me in a slightly different direction. I will still fulfill the call to be a mother to the motherless no mater where I go. With this said, I will be helping teach in Massi Land.

The last few weeks of outreach I was feeling this restlessness and lack of peace about staying in the Tumaini Home. I couldn’t explain it so I started praying. I asked God “where is my fit? Where do you want me to be?” I didn’t want to be apart of a ministry because I liked it, it’s expanding God’s Kingdom, and they need help. I wanted to be apart of the ministry because God appointed me there. God reminded me of the beginning, before I came to Africa. He told me that I’m to stay longer to help teach in Massi Land. As I got to Africa I realized my focus was beginning to shift from the here and now to the future. I was trying to get through DTS so I could teach. I didn’t want to miss what God had for me by being focused on the future, so I prayed that God would help me to focus on what He has for me now. Shortly after I felt God answer my prayer by lifting his hand off the call to teach. As he did this, my desire and focus became DTS. He then started to unfold many layers in my life. Layers of hurt, bitterness, unforgivingness, pride. As my roots grew deeper in the truth of who God is and walked in the freedom that He had for me, I was able to see in a new light how He wired me. My eyes were opened to see the gifts and talents that God has placed in me and for the first time I truly admired His creation and was thankful for the way He made me. I could see how the call to be a mother to the motherless and a mother to many nations could come together. I received hope that someday I God would lead me to find my fit in His master plan, just as a puzzle piece fits together to make a masterpiece.

I feel like God has confirmed His desire for me to teach in Massi Land. Not only do I feel peace about it but He also has answered my prayer. I asked Him to speak to me in a way that He never dose so that I may know for sure what I am to do. He then put the put it on a leader’s heart that I was to stay in Massi Land. This leader is not one to speak out “Thus says the Lord” sayings, nor is she one to be pushy. In fact when I spoke with her before outreach she was very supportive of any decision I was to make in regards to ministry, and was praying with me as I was on outreach. God never speaks to me through others in this kind of manor. With this said, I will be helping teach in Massi Land.

I will be in Massi Land Monday through Friday and then back on the base Saturday and Sunday. It is not certain what I will be helping to teach. They just opened a new Primary School so I will more than likely be helping kids who are in first or second grade. There is also a preschool that I may be helping in. I will give you further details as time goes on. My monthly budget will still be the same seeing as how I was planning on paying for trips out to Massi Land.  Please keep my health in your prayers as well as finances. There is a lot of dust where I will be going and that is one thing that causes breathing to act up. I believe God will help me and Lord willing heal me completely! I also still only have half of my monthly budget covered. Thank you all again for your prayers and support! I truly feel blessed!