Last week I was excited to share with you an opportunity to partner or be part of missions in my home state, this week I am excited to share about missionaries in my own, small hometown! The Rosenbauer family will be going to Mophela, South Africa on a long term missions trip to serve at Read more
So I have been waiting to make the new Maine Church Planting website my Mission Monday post for a while now, but I was holding out for this video to be ready! Please check out the website and see the various ways that you can be involved in church planting in Maine! There are ways that Read more
Amani Baby Cottage is located in Jinja, Uganda. It was established in 2003 to provide care for orphaned or abandoned children. Their website states: “We can house up to 60 children ages birth to 5 years. Children are referred to us through the local authorities and the social welfare system. Many are orphaned when Read more
Living Water International has completed 11,266 water projects in 23 countries worldwide. ” Living Water International exists to demonstrate the love of God by helping communities acquire desperately needed clean water, and to experience “living water”—the gospel of Jesus Christ—which alone satisfies the deepest thirst.” Living Water International: The H2O Project Drink Water to Read more
You may know, if you have read my blog for any length of time, that I don’t write to convince others of anything. I write about what God is showing me and teaching me, and even then only the times when He lays it on my heart to write about it. So I try to Read more
In my blog post, Waiting for a Miracle, I reached out for a friend of mine who was looking for anyone who had remembered her children in their previous orphanage or had pictures of them there. The task was compared to finding a needle in a haystack. We included the oldest picture of the children Read more
Today’s Mission Monday is one that is close to my heart. For those of you who do not know, I am the Area Coordinator for Safe Families for Children in southern and central Maine. Safe Families for Children is presently in 27 states plus Canada and United Kingdom. Safe Families for Children (SFFC) is a Read more
For those of you who don’t know, I live in Maine. I have lived in Maine my entire life. As in Maine with a statewide population of 1.3 million people (according to the US Chamber of Commerce), as opposed to 1.2 million people in Dallas or 625k in Seattle. Maine, according to a recent survey, Read more
I mentioned last week that I was drawing up a plan to blog more. So I would like to introduce Mission Mondays. Every Monday I will be sharing a ministry or mission from somewhere around the world. While I intended to share a different ministry today, I have not been able to get some of the things Read more
First off let me just apologize for not blogging much in the last couple months (or maybe at all). I am not off to a good start to my new year’s resolution about blogging more. I plan to carve out some time each week to be better at that. It was a rough morning. My Read more
I recently visited the beach that my family frequented when I was a child. I saw a house that I remember admiring as a little girl, which is now for sale. Part of me thinks how amazing it would be to live at the beach, in this beautiful home. Serene, tranquil sanctuary. But then the Read more
Everything here requires me to trust God. Trust that, although the walls of the house do not meet the roof, some animal is not going to come into the house or my room in the middle of the night. Trust that there is not going to be some natural disaster since they feel more common Read more
I love the book of Esther. I do not know why, as I have loved it since I was a little girl. The idea of an orphan girl becoming Queen, a real portrayal of every little girl’s dream, may have drawn me in but I also suspect that I have loved it for as long Read more
I don’t usually blog about the sermon that was preached at my church, but where God has my heart lately and the sermon preached by my pastor intersected, so I am going to blog it. My church has been going through the first three chapters of Revelation, through the seven churches, and I was especially Read more
The thing about being rendered helpless is that I get to see God’s provision. I am given the opportunity to stand back in watch in awe as He works around me. I am even more thankful for His provision as I know, beyond a doubt, it was nothing I accomplished. Moments like this not only Read more
I don’t usually make New Year’s resolutions. In the past I have pondered a few and just kind of nonchalantly thought ‘yeah, I’ll do that this year’, but they were never serious goals in which I planned to hold myself accountable. I am going to make a few this year, and here they are: Seek Read more
Two years ago, this week, I was surrounded by darkness, I was in a fog of hopelessness and had to force myself to get out of bed. Previous to that week, although I was saved, my relationship with Jesus was on my terms and therefore not what it should be. I had to be in Read more
A friend of mine is waiting for and needing a miracle in her adoption. God is in control, and so there are many people prayerfully being faithful in doing anything they can to help her get the proof she needs. This is an update from Barabara: “Daniel, Edeline and Shelove Florival were in Bethany Orphanage Read more