Wowzers, it's been so long since anybody has posted on here. Well, the short of things is that all three of us kids are still in school, Mom is volunteering at Carmen's school and the church's food pantry, and Dad is still working at WIM throughout the week.
As for the long of it, since this is Aaron writing, I will update everyone a bit on my life. Since I got back from Asia last summer, God has really been working in new ways in my life. Growing up in missions, I always assumed that the calling I was feeling on my life was to full-time mission work. Now I am not so sure. Needless to say, everyday American life has taken its toll on me, but at the same time, I am not feeling the strong call to full-time as I thought I had then. I continue to seek God's will through it all, and I know foreign missions will indeed be a big part of my life in the future, just maybe not the whole of it. In the meantime, I have been fully involved here in Texas. I am now officially a member of Dayspring Christian Fellowship here in New Braunfels. With that taken care of, I continue with my weekly participation on the worship and media team each Sunday. Youth ministry continues to be my main focus, leading worship for them as well on Wednesday nights and co-leading the Jr. High class with Dad. On Tuesdays, I volunteer at the church food pantry the SILO, and once a month lead worship for God's PowerHouse, the kid's ministry on Sunday. So between that, working at Subway, and a full 18 hour semester of schoolwork, I stay pretty busy. Nonetheless, I still find plenty of time to spend with my wonderful family, sweet girlfriend Kelly, or my crazy friends Vince and Jymmi...
Thanks for reading, and stay tuned for Dad's update about his current trip to Bolivia!!!
~ Aaron
Friday, February 11, 2011
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Where does the time go?
Hello friends!
Where does the time go? This summer has flown by and we are at October 1. We had a wonderful summer of activities with the highlights being Aaron and Jessica's trips overseas. We are very proud of our children who desire to serve the Lord wherever He leads.
We also oversaw our new missionary orientation/training week in June. What a joy to see new people answering the call to missions. In early August we had our International Conference. It was a great success. Then, the back to school activities. Chris produced a concert by Kingsfall from Dallas for the youth and we were all involved in a Spanish outreach which gave out school supplies.
Chris is planning a Hurricane Karl relief trip to Veracruz in November. There is so much suffering by people of all economic classes. The focus will be to restore the churches and Pastors so they can minister to the people.
Until next time, be blessed.
Where does the time go? This summer has flown by and we are at October 1. We had a wonderful summer of activities with the highlights being Aaron and Jessica's trips overseas. We are very proud of our children who desire to serve the Lord wherever He leads.
We also oversaw our new missionary orientation/training week in June. What a joy to see new people answering the call to missions. In early August we had our International Conference. It was a great success. Then, the back to school activities. Chris produced a concert by Kingsfall from Dallas for the youth and we were all involved in a Spanish outreach which gave out school supplies.
Chris is planning a Hurricane Karl relief trip to Veracruz in November. There is so much suffering by people of all economic classes. The focus will be to restore the churches and Pastors so they can minister to the people.
Until next time, be blessed.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Uganda!
Ok well I have been back from Uganda for a few days now, and I'm just getting to this!
Wow! I don't even know where to start! I have so many stories and so many amazing things that God did on the trip! I guess I'll start with telling you guys what we did most of the time we were there.
While I was in Kampala we would do street ministry in the morning we would go to villages and to peoples houses and ask if they needed help with anything, then we would pray for them and shared the gospel with them. In the afternoons we would go to high schools and present an abstinence program which was a huge success! Basically the program talks about why it is important to stay pure until marriage. This is a big deal in Uganda because they have one of the highest percentage rates of HIV/AIDS in the world! We would break up into small groups after the presentation and have them ask us questions and a lot of times in that we were able to share the gospel. At then end we had them sign abstinence pledge cards saying that they were going to stay sexually pure until marriage.
In Gulu we went to a lot of elementary schools and played with little kids and put on skits for them. You can see the hurt in the kids eyes and you can tell that they need to know that they are loved and that's why we were there was to love on the kids and tell them that Jesus loves them as well.
Of course like in all trips we had lots of challenges! One of them being sicknesses! We had 10 people in the hospital sick with typhoid while others were sick with bacterial infections (mostly meaning stomach problems, but sickness did not stop us from spreading the good news and praising God! While they were in the hospital they would pray for other sick patients and they would be singing worship songs and just praising God no matter what!
My team leader had a phrase we used a lot "We plan, God laughs." Boy did we find that out quickly! God changed our plans a lot of times, like one time we were supposed to go to a high school but instead we ended up going prayer walking which was amazing to get a feel for the city and how much they need God.!
During my trip we reached out to 7,000 people (meaning that they all heard the gospel) and 700 got saved! Our work in Uganda is still not done! About half of my team is still there for another month and they are going to continue ministering and reaching out to the broken people of Uganda! They did have a big event happen this past Sunday there were bombings in Kampala about 20 minutes away from were I had been staying and were the team that is still there is staying. Thankfully nobody from my team was hurt, but there were 76 people killed, and the team there decided to go to Gulu (which is northern Uganda) just to wait it out until it's safe to go back. There was supposed to be another team getting there last night, but they had to relocate to South Africa instead because of this. Just be praying for Uganda and for all of the team that's still there that they would be safe and have peace!
Thank you all so much for your prayers and support!!
Jessie
Wow! I don't even know where to start! I have so many stories and so many amazing things that God did on the trip! I guess I'll start with telling you guys what we did most of the time we were there.
While I was in Kampala we would do street ministry in the morning we would go to villages and to peoples houses and ask if they needed help with anything, then we would pray for them and shared the gospel with them. In the afternoons we would go to high schools and present an abstinence program which was a huge success! Basically the program talks about why it is important to stay pure until marriage. This is a big deal in Uganda because they have one of the highest percentage rates of HIV/AIDS in the world! We would break up into small groups after the presentation and have them ask us questions and a lot of times in that we were able to share the gospel. At then end we had them sign abstinence pledge cards saying that they were going to stay sexually pure until marriage.
In Gulu we went to a lot of elementary schools and played with little kids and put on skits for them. You can see the hurt in the kids eyes and you can tell that they need to know that they are loved and that's why we were there was to love on the kids and tell them that Jesus loves them as well.
Of course like in all trips we had lots of challenges! One of them being sicknesses! We had 10 people in the hospital sick with typhoid while others were sick with bacterial infections (mostly meaning stomach problems, but sickness did not stop us from spreading the good news and praising God! While they were in the hospital they would pray for other sick patients and they would be singing worship songs and just praising God no matter what!
My team leader had a phrase we used a lot "We plan, God laughs." Boy did we find that out quickly! God changed our plans a lot of times, like one time we were supposed to go to a high school but instead we ended up going prayer walking which was amazing to get a feel for the city and how much they need God.!
During my trip we reached out to 7,000 people (meaning that they all heard the gospel) and 700 got saved! Our work in Uganda is still not done! About half of my team is still there for another month and they are going to continue ministering and reaching out to the broken people of Uganda! They did have a big event happen this past Sunday there were bombings in Kampala about 20 minutes away from were I had been staying and were the team that is still there is staying. Thankfully nobody from my team was hurt, but there were 76 people killed, and the team there decided to go to Gulu (which is northern Uganda) just to wait it out until it's safe to go back. There was supposed to be another team getting there last night, but they had to relocate to South Africa instead because of this. Just be praying for Uganda and for all of the team that's still there that they would be safe and have peace!
Thank you all so much for your prayers and support!!
Jessie
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