ENVIA.....

ENVIA?? What is this I hear you asking, well let me explain, I am going to do a few entries in this blog of my ministries that I am involved in right now, ENVIA is one of them that I am staffing!!

This is a 12 week school that is run 3 evenings a week here on the base in Tijuana, but it is for the local people who can do a DTS for 5 months. We meet these people through our family selection for Homes of Hope Ministry, we meet them in the Colonias when we do church visits and when we run weekly the Circulo kids ministries.

It is such a fun school, we have 15 people who come and they are all very lovely, we have a mixture of pastors and youth leaders and mums and dads from the Colonias (the poorer communities up in the Hills.

So Monday, Wednesday and Friday we drive our van up into the hills to pick up our friends and bring them back to the base for the classes. The classes run for 2.5 hours, which is a lot after they have done a whole days work and fed the kids and come out for the school, but this is how hungry people are to learn more of God and to grower stronger in him!! This for me is so humbling, i think of so many times that i would struggle going to a prayer meeting and i would have had a nice car to drive and nice food to eat and then go for a bit and then come home, but sometimes that was a real effort, but each one of the students work like a 10hour day for not much money at all, have their families to try and feed and take care of and because they live in wooden, or boarded little houses that are more like a garden shed, they are cleaning every day too, and they are so excited for the classes..!! It humbles me!!

We are seeing people grow and get new revelations, one man and his wife have been in a very difficult time, where 2 months ago their father died and then 1 month ago their baby died, so they have had a very difficult time but they are still running towards God and taking on ll the challenges that life is throwing their way and they are still committed to God and serving the young people in their community!!

Please be praying for our friends in ENVIA as it is a very exciting time for them all to grow and learn more and they in turn can take this back to their families, communities and churches!!!

Transformation is happening........

How can such and small little boy, have such a big impacting story.....

One day we visited an Orphanage here in Tijuana, Mexico, it was such a good time to be with the children there are 34 little boys from babies to like 15 yrs old kids. There are about 12 girls too, in another building.

We got to play with the kids, sing and dance with them, it was such an good time to just really love them and show them how precious they all are. By the end of the visits many of the little children had curled up on our laps for a sleep.

So I met this little boy he is like 3 yrs old and I asked why is he there what happened to his family? And the reply was that his mother died 3 months ago and his father left him alone too. He now has no one, no family to visit him or care for him.

He is such a precious little boy he is so cute and so interested in life, and liked making new friends. This really hit me and challenged me.

This made me see that all of us have a place to play in the lives of people we meet.

Even when we are not family to people and they are looking for love or a hug or an ear to listen to them we can be there we can be available like Jesus was.

He never said to anyone "Oh sorry i don't have time" no he would stop and he would listen he would sit with the people that no one else had time for. Or no one else wanted to be associated too.

This is the challenge for me and the challenge i will carry every step i walk in every place i go, It is something i just sometimes get caught up in my tasks or my own world but i hope and if not you can keep me accountable.

But really there is hope for each one of these little children so pray with me that they can find families and people who will love them unconditionally!!!