So we finished with TREK on June 27 but since then, I have been home resting and getting ready for SOAR South Texas (an MBMSI 10-day mission trip that will be held in my home church/conference). I want to apologize for not updating this earlier but I've been preoccupied with other things.
I will be leading the praise and worship times for SOAR with an awesome team of all either current Tabor students or Tabor alumni. We practiced for the first time altogether yesterday morning, and we were very pleased with how we meshed so well so fast. God definitely had His hand over the coming together of the group. And after practicing in the morning, we came back to my house for lunch, and about 20-30 minutes after lunch, I got a really bad pain in my stomach again, and this time it was as worse as the first night or worse, but it was definitely for a longer period of time, about 8 hours to be exact. It took me back to when our team was in Osaka, Japan at the Hirakata Christ Church and I had felt that pain for the first time. I went to the doctor and felt worse, so then my parents rushed me to the emergency room and they gave me a shot of strong pain killers and some white liquid substance to drink and it was supposed to numb my stomach and esophagus but it also numbed my mouth and throat, so it was kind of a weird feeling.
I'm saying all this to say that the enemy knows that something awesome is about to happen with the furthering of the kingdom of God and he's going to use anything he can to distract us from keeping focused. But as I was thinking in the emergency hospital room: God has big things planned for SOAR and I will stay focused on that. Notice that I said God has big things. I know that God is going to use more than me, more than the worship band, more than the leaders, He's going to use all of us together as the body of Christ for the furthering of His kingdom in South Texas and Northern Mexico.
TREK prepared me for life, not for the 6-month experience. TREK was filled with challenges, struggles, joys, pains, dancing (literally), laughter (a lot of that on our team), etc, and God used that to prepare for the path that's ahead of me. I know life is not always going to be good and uplifting, but if I just search for God, in the hard moments and especially in the good ones, because it's a lot harder to search for Him when it's all good, He will light the path for me and give me hope, faith and love for life.
You have no idea how much I am thankful for all of you who stayed with me throughout these past 6 months with prayer, financial help, reading the blog, sending me emails and letter, etc. God used all of those things for the furthering of His kingdom. It wasn't for me that you did all that, it was for Him and His glory.
If there's one challenge that I want to give you in life, it's this: May your life reflect that of Christ more and more every single day of your life.
Again, ARIGATO GOIZAIMAS (Japanese for thank you very much)!
Blessings upon blessing for you as your reflect Christ more and more everyday!
I will be leading the praise and worship times for SOAR with an awesome team of all either current Tabor students or Tabor alumni. We practiced for the first time altogether yesterday morning, and we were very pleased with how we meshed so well so fast. God definitely had His hand over the coming together of the group. And after practicing in the morning, we came back to my house for lunch, and about 20-30 minutes after lunch, I got a really bad pain in my stomach again, and this time it was as worse as the first night or worse, but it was definitely for a longer period of time, about 8 hours to be exact. It took me back to when our team was in Osaka, Japan at the Hirakata Christ Church and I had felt that pain for the first time. I went to the doctor and felt worse, so then my parents rushed me to the emergency room and they gave me a shot of strong pain killers and some white liquid substance to drink and it was supposed to numb my stomach and esophagus but it also numbed my mouth and throat, so it was kind of a weird feeling.
I'm saying all this to say that the enemy knows that something awesome is about to happen with the furthering of the kingdom of God and he's going to use anything he can to distract us from keeping focused. But as I was thinking in the emergency hospital room: God has big things planned for SOAR and I will stay focused on that. Notice that I said God has big things. I know that God is going to use more than me, more than the worship band, more than the leaders, He's going to use all of us together as the body of Christ for the furthering of His kingdom in South Texas and Northern Mexico.
TREK prepared me for life, not for the 6-month experience. TREK was filled with challenges, struggles, joys, pains, dancing (literally), laughter (a lot of that on our team), etc, and God used that to prepare for the path that's ahead of me. I know life is not always going to be good and uplifting, but if I just search for God, in the hard moments and especially in the good ones, because it's a lot harder to search for Him when it's all good, He will light the path for me and give me hope, faith and love for life.
You have no idea how much I am thankful for all of you who stayed with me throughout these past 6 months with prayer, financial help, reading the blog, sending me emails and letter, etc. God used all of those things for the furthering of His kingdom. It wasn't for me that you did all that, it was for Him and His glory.
If there's one challenge that I want to give you in life, it's this: May your life reflect that of Christ more and more every single day of your life.
Again, ARIGATO GOIZAIMAS (Japanese for thank you very much)!
Blessings upon blessing for you as your reflect Christ more and more everyday!
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