God's Work In Honduras

This past week I was in Tegucigalpa, Honduras serving with World Gospel Outreach (WGO). There is no possible way that I can show everyone all the ways that God worked in my life and the lives of many of the Honduran people over the past week. I can only show just a glimpse of what the Lord did over the past week.

Throughout the week my team and I served with WGO to conduct medical brigades in Tegucigalpa. We had stations set up for dentistry, optical, medical, and children's ministry. We also laid cement floors for three families throughout the week. The Lord allowed us to use these different areas of ministry as the "bait" to get them in the door, and as they left, we shared the gospel and prayed with each person. We saw about 2,300 people throughout the week.

Here's just a glimpse of the work we did in Honduras. My life will forever be changed by the work that God did in Honduras.

 A view from the mountain where we ministered on Monday & Tuesday

 These were just a few of the kids that were waiting outside the church for our brigade in the morning.

 This is Aaron & I. This little Aaron came up to me and told me how his name was Aaron and asked me if I knew that the name Aaron meant that he would be a great man of God. Little did he know that I was married to an Aaron that definitely is a great man of God.

 Kirsten & I with some of the Honduran kids

 I helped lay a cement floor for this little girl's family, and she gave me quite a few kisses on my cheek after we were done that day

 A typical Honduran home

 Our team

 Being on the trip with my mother and father-in-law was such a blessing

Teaching the Honduran kids the story of Christ

Dios Te Bendiga

(God Bless You)

"All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go..."

You know you're singing that song in your head right now, or at least I am...

All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go
I'm standin' here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye....

So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go...

'Cause I'm leaving on a jet plane
I don't know when I'll be back again
Oh, babe, I hate to go....

Sorry...I only know the good parts of the song, so I didn't quote you the whole thing. And you're really lucky you aren't here with me to hear me sing it because well...lets just say...I wasn't gifted with the best singing voice in the world.

Lately, this song has been playing in my head because (if you haven't heard already) we're moving back to Illinois. We got the news late on Tuesday, and it's been a whirlwind of a week. We haven't worked out all of the moving details yet, but it's a work in progress. We were so blessed to find out that Aaron was offered a position as an Assistant States Attorney in Carroll County Illinois. We truly feel like this is something the Lord led us to because honestly, we weren't seeking it out. It was by word of mouth that we heard about the position and from then on it was like the Lord had all the steps in place, so we know that this is the right move for us.

We're excited about what the Lord has in store for us in this next season of our lives, but we are extremely sad to leave Virginia Beach. We've had our fair share of tears over the last couple days because we don't want to say goodbye to a lot of people or Virginia in general. Our friends here have become family, and we wouldn't trade the time we've had here for anything in the world. We're also really sad to say goodbye to Regent because the university has truly become a part of our lives, and we feel blessed to have been a part of the university. And of course...we're definitely going to miss the weather. It was 65 degrees here the other day while Illinois was getting pounded with a snow storm, so I'm sure you can see why we're crying.

The past few days have been a blur, and to add to the mix...I'm leaving for Honduras in just a couple hours. I fly out tonight, and I'll be gone for a week. This leaves Aaron home by himself to start trying to get our move in order so that we can travel half way across the county with all of our things. It's going to be a crazy month for us, but we know the Lord has it all under control. As long as we trust it all to Him, everything will be okay.