The end of the first week!- Jess

Well Maegan and I are both going to write a little bit about our first week as we are coming to a close of our 7th day here! So I'll try to write mine in a hurry and let her write a blog also.

I think first and foremost I want to say Praise God for all He has done and will continue to do while we are here. Our God is a big God and He has worked and moved while we are here. We are blessed to be apart of His Kingdom we are blessed to be His hands and feet.

Well to start off we have been here 7 days and I have preached 11x and we have been in 14 meetings. These have been in churches, small groups, ministries, schools, and a youth revival meeting. I have loved all of it, diving into the Word for hours a day to find what God has to say to these people has been more than a blessing to me. I love seeing God work and move and knowing that it is Him talking and not me. Sometimes I'll say something and I'll just think to myself, wow God, that really makes sense, I need to write that down. I'm finding strength and truth in the verse 2 Cor. 12:9 which says "My grace is sufficient for you for My power is perfected in weakness". I have never had to speak this many times in one week and I felt like it would be impossible, but God's grace has been sufficient. He has been faithful and true to His people. I love being able to speak truth into their lives and I love being able to lay hands on them and pray for them. I love seeing God speak to His people, capture and recapture hearts, heal emotions and bodies, I love watching God be the Shepherd to His sheep.

This week I received a big blessing. We were able to go to the Star School where I went a year ago. We came to the site to find they had expanded and Darlia the head mistress was pregnant. It was a blessing to speak to them again, it was a blessing to see that so much had been accomplished and yet Darlia still had much vision for the future.

I have a couple of prayer requests before I pass the computer over to Maegan to share on her experiences. This week we were sitting waiting for our transport to arrive to take us to where I was supposed to preach. My vision got very blurry and my head began to ache. Our transport arrived and on the way to the meeting I got very nauseated and the head ache became unbearable. In tears I had to tell our coordinator that I would be unable to preach, as we came into the house I began vomiting and had a migraine for hours. Along with this the lady that Maegan was coordinating with to work in the orphanages had a death in the family and suddenly had to leave to Uganda. A few other things have gone on that just have been direct attacks from the enemy. We have been standing in faith against these attacks and believing that God's will and plan for this trip will prevail over any dirty attempt of the enemy to thwart what we are doing here.

Also, Maegan and I have been talking a lot about a vision God has placed on our hearts about a ministry that would coordinate missions teams. We see God shaping the vision and giving us new ideas about how to start it, run it, and maintain it. Please pray that we would continue to hear Him on this subject.

I simply ask that you would join us in prayer, intercession, and faith. We love you all. thank You....

As Always Be Blessed,
Jess