Unbound and Liberated

Hello Dear Friends and Family... I come home in less than 2 weeks 6 months goes by so fast...slow when you are in it but then looking back when its over it goes by so quickly. The Lord has really blessed my time here and I am looking forward to coming home but it is very bittersweet for me. Everyone here is like family to me so it will be very hard to say goodbye to all my new brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles. Please pray for grace for me in this I know i am going to cry but also know this is Gods timing and that gives me peace. I had a dream a few days ago and in the dream I was tied down with ropes and in a dark room and I felt like I just had this heaviness upon me like a heavy burden i was carrying and then someone came into the room and unlocked the door and cut of the ropes and brought me out into the sun. It just reminded me of how I was once a slave to sin I was a sinner and on the road to hell separated from God and Jesus Christ through the shedding of his blood on the cross has made me free! I think it was the His way of reminding me and making me once again thankful and grateful for my salvation because once you have been a slave to anything and then you have become free after a while you forget what it was like to be a slave in the first place and it can feel as if you have always been free. Christ has been reminding me of that and its really been making me think...I have been set free I am unbound and liberated through Christ. John 8:34-36

Please pray we are having a women's meeting in a tribal area this saturday Monika will be speaking

Pray Gods will for my last 2 weeks here will be accomplished

Pray for the hospital land pray that they would have favor with the government and that they would be able to start building soon

and the kids at the childrens home are having Exams this week (which is a big deal in India) and they are a little stressed out. 

Can’t wait to see all of you and hear about what has been going on in your lives these 6 months. Thank you guys so much for your prayers and your support it means a lot to me and makes a big difference. 

Valleys and Villages

Sorry it has been a while since I last wrote a blog post things have been very busy here we have been doing a lot of traveling. A week and a half ago we all traveled to Araku valley for the weekend just for some vacation time. It was beautiful and very fun it was a 3 1/2 hour car ride with 12 people we traveled with an Indian family. On the way up we stopped and went into a cave with monkeys everywhere. Later in the week we went to yesupadams village where he grew up as an untouchable in India. It was in Srikakulum the car ride took 11 1/2 hours. I was so blessed to see where he was born and where the Lord has taken him since then. It was such a testimony how If we honor the Lord with our lives He will honor us. He walked on streets that as a child he would have never been allowed to walk on just because of his caste. Tomorrow we will be going to Vijayawada for crusades at night that yesupadam will be speaking at, we will be there for 3 days. The Lord has been preparing my heart for coming home. I will be so happy to see all of you guys when i get back and share in detail what the Lord has been doing here in my life. Please pray that the Lord will give me grace saying goodbye to my new family here all of the kids and the people i have worked with it will be a bittersweet day for me. Please pray for direction as to what i should do this summer where i should live and that the Lord would provide me with a Job somewhere. I really just want to concentrate these next three weeks on seeking the Lord. I start online classes March 19th and need two more books that i do not have the money for right now so please pray for Gods provision I know He will He has before and will again. 

Once again sorry this has to be so brief there are so many things going on right now. Thank you everyone who is praying for me.