Everyone Has A Story To Tell. | Hello family and friends!! First i'd like to apologize that this blog has no spaces. for some reason it won't let me put text in the body part, so i'm writing this blog in the title space. sorry! I also apologize that it’s taken so long to get an update going. Life here has been pretty crazy!! At one point last week we had no water, no electricity, the phones were out, the internet was out, AND we ran out of gas in our house (which meant no cooking or boiling water). It’s all been a beautiful disaster though, and I wouldn’t have had it happen any other way. God has been reducing me to the point where I can’t lean on anything else for comfort but Him. I had a small break down last week because all my comforts were taken away, except for food. So then I started eating every piece of chocolate in sight (which is odd for someone who doesn’t like chocolate that much). But then I got sick to where I couldn’t keep anything in my body!! So then I was forced to do nothing but just lie down and hold onto God as tight as I could. It was an incredible experience, because I was literally forced to give up everything I was holding onto in my life that was keeping me from God. He’s stripping me even still of every unnecessary thing in my life. Needless to say, it’s not comfortable; but who ever said it would be easy? I’ve been learning a lot about identity and walking in freedom since I’ve been here. Long story short, there’s an open heaven here, and so much deliverance has been going on here. I know that I’m here so God can mold me and shape me for the next season in my life. He’s been speaking newness into me and setting me free so I can walk as a new creation with boldness. I went on outreach this weekend!! I went to a village about two hours away, and there’s no way I could even spell out the name of it, because I can barely pronounce it. But it was such an incredible weekend. We went Thursday night and set up camp, then went and set up the screen for the Jesus film. A few others and me gave our testimony, and danced with the kids (which is hilarious, because any motion you do the entire crowd of kids do. It’s like follow the leader.) After the film many people got saved and then we prayed for healings!! It was such an amazing thing, watching the Lord work. The next day we went through the village in groups and prayed for people and ministered. We cut out a lot of witchcraft that witchdoctors had put on sick people. There were no full healings that we saw, but we saw a lot of improvement in people, and we got to do first aid on some pretty nasty wounds. We all made a special friend during the weekend, her name is Sophia, and we think she is about nine years old. She was born without eyelashes and because of that it’s easy for her to get infections. When we first met her eyes were filled with infections and flies were swarming them. We got them cleaned up and were able to give medicine to the family she is living with. Her parents and brother were killed in a fire five years ago, so she is still suffering from the trauma. By the end of the weekend though, she was smiling some and snuggling with us all. I’ll put up a few pictures soon. So yeah!! It was such an eye opening weekend to how real Africa is. We live in a resort compared to the people we spent the weekend with. Most of the people we met had never had never heard of Jesus. I’m so blessed to have been able to share Gods love with them. Other than all of that, I’m pretty sad that I’m missing fall. I miss crunchy leaves, hot apple cider on a cool day, driving with the windows down, carving pumpkins, watching Georgia beat Florida on a Saturday afternoon :), beautiful colors on the trees, etcetera. We made Halloween as special as possible though and all of us brought out our candy out (candy corn, caramel apple lollipops, m&m’s). We had a worship night, so it was a very fun night. :) So yeah!! God is doing amazing things. He’s changing my heart, reducing me to simple love. A question they ask a lot here is “What does love look like?” Love looks like so many different things, and God is filling me with so much perfect love so that I can give it out to others. In my life right now, love looks like being patient with my 11 other house mates, and trying to keep my part of the room clean. Love looks like learning to look under the surface of people’s actions, rather than judging them. Love looks like hugging the kids and playing with them even though they are pointing knives at your face and telling you you’re fat and you eat too much. Love looks like something. I encourage you to ask yourself that for today. How can I love people today, Jesus? How can I give out more of you and less of me today, God? It’s rewarding in the end. I love you all, and hope everyone is well. Thanks everyone for the prayers, they’re highly appreciated!! Much much love, Christina.

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Hello family and friends!! First i’d like to apologize that this blog has no spaces. for some reason it won’t let me put text in the body part, so i’m writing this blog in the title space. sorry! I also apologize that it’s taken so long to get an update going. Life here has been pretty crazy!! At one point last week we had no water, no electricity, the phones were out, the internet was out, AND we ran out of gas in our house (which meant no cooking or boiling water). It’s all been a beautiful disaster though, and I wouldn’t have had it happen any other way. God has been reducing me to the point where I can’t lean on anything else for comfort but Him. I had a small break down last week because all my comforts were taken away, except for food. So then I started eating every piece of chocolate in sight (which is odd for someone who doesn’t like chocolate that much). But then I got sick to where I couldn’t keep anything in my body!! So then I was forced to do nothing but just lie down and hold onto God as tight as I could. It was an incredible experience, because I was literally forced to give up everything I was holding onto in my life that was keeping me from God. He’s stripping me even still of every unnecessary thing in my life. Needless to say, it’s not comfortable; but who ever said it would be easy? I’ve been learning a lot about identity and walking in freedom since I’ve been here. Long story short, there’s an open heaven here, and so much deliverance has been going on here. I know that I’m here so God can mold me and shape me for the next season in my life. He’s been speaking newness into me and setting me free so I can walk as a new creation with boldness. I went on outreach this weekend!! I went to a village about two hours away, and there’s no way I could even spell out the name of it, because I can barely pronounce it. But it was such an incredible weekend. We went Thursday night and set up camp, then went and set up the screen for the Jesus film. A few others and me gave our testimony, and danced with the kids (which is hilarious, because any motion you do the entire crowd of kids do. It’s like follow the leader.) After the film many people got saved and then we prayed for healings!! It was such an amazing thing, watching the Lord work. The next day we went through the village in groups and prayed for people and ministered. We cut out a lot of witchcraft that witchdoctors had put on sick people. There were no full healings that we saw, but we saw a lot of improvement in people, and we got to do first aid on some pretty nasty wounds. We all made a special friend during the weekend, her name is Sophia, and we think she is about nine years old. She was born without eyelashes and because of that it’s easy for her to get infections. When we first met her eyes were filled with infections and flies were swarming them. We got them cleaned up and were able to give medicine to the family she is living with. Her parents and brother were killed in a fire five years ago, so she is still suffering from the trauma. By the end of the weekend though, she was smiling some and snuggling with us all. I’ll put up a few pictures soon. So yeah!! It was such an eye opening weekend to how real Africa is. We live in a resort compared to the people we spent the weekend with. Most of the people we met had never had never heard of Jesus. I’m so blessed to have been able to share Gods love with them. Other than all of that, I’m pretty sad that I’m missing fall. I miss crunchy leaves, hot apple cider on a cool day, driving with the windows down, carving pumpkins, watching Georgia beat Florida on a Saturday afternoon :), beautiful colors on the trees, etcetera. We made Halloween as special as possible though and all of us brought out our candy out (candy corn, caramel apple lollipops, m&m’s). We had a worship night, so it was a very fun night. :) So yeah!! God is doing amazing things. He’s changing my heart, reducing me to simple love. A question they ask a lot here is “What does love look like?” Love looks like so many different things, and God is filling me with so much perfect love so that I can give it out to others. In my life right now, love looks like being patient with my 11 other house mates, and trying to keep my part of the room clean. Love looks like learning to look under the surface of people’s actions, rather than judging them. Love looks like hugging the kids and playing with them even though they are pointing knives at your face and telling you you’re fat and you eat too much. Love looks like something. I encourage you to ask yourself that for today. How can I love people today, Jesus? How can I give out more of you and less of me today, God? It’s rewarding in the end. I love you all, and hope everyone is well. Thanks everyone for the prayers, they’re highly appreciated!! Much much love, Christina.<3

Posted on November 6, 2011