Newsletter

Dear Friends and Family,

The past months have been busy and blessed. January found me moving to Mexico. I started the month by helping to lead a short term trip in Mexico. We helped build roofs, visited the homebound and sick and worshiped together. It really has given me a greater fire for missionary evangelism. The next few weeks myself and the team I was sent with continued to the do pretty much the same things, settling into our house and ministries. The priest at our local parish is an amazing man of God, and he had a lot of ideas that correlated with ours.

Then at the end of the month I started to feel that I needed some more spiritual formation. As a missionary in Mexico I was going to be in a position of leadership, and I don’t feel ready for this. Now this month, February I am back in my home state of Oregon. Here I hope to get involved in the local ministries while seeking a spiritual director.

I will also be studying to become a midwife. This is something I have been hoping to do for many years and now God has blessed me with the time and ability to do so. I am excited to use this skill in my future missionary work, both stateside and abroad.

This year holds so much and so I’ve taken Psalm 27 as my meditation for the year.

“My heart says of you, "Seek his face!" Your face, LORD, I will seek. 9 Do not hide your face from me, do not turn your servant away in anger; you have been my helper. Do not reject me or forsake me, O God my Savior. 10 Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me. 11 Teach me your way, O LORD; lead me in a straight path because of my oppressors. 12 Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence. 13 I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. 14 Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.”

Thank you for all of your prayers and support!

Abi

Going back to Big Woods

This is just a quick update, I'll post more soon!

Wow, I can hardly believe it. The time for us to leave Oregon has come, we leave early Wednesday. The time we have spent back home has been absolutely wonderful, family and friends have changed so much! My whole heart breaks to be leaving my home, the faces, the hearts and hands are so familiar, so dear to me, and they always will be. But I am looking forward to the community of missionaries that await us in LA. I am looking forward to the praise and worship, to the laughter and friends that will be there. Life is full of changes, leavings and beginnings, we just have to accept God's will and go with what he says. Next stop: Big Woods

Leaving St. Lucia

Its official, we are leaving St. Lucia. On the 20th of Sep, it will be 8 months of living in missions. We are so excited to be going home, we have not been to our home town for almost 2 years! There will be so many new babies in the family, so many people we have not seen in so long! Our life here in missions has been so blessed, I know this is God's will for out family. While we are home we will be praying about our new mission post. That is also exciting, when you are abandoned to God's will you realize that the whole world is open to you. Two years ago I had never heard of St. Lucia, and even if I had I would never have dreamed that some day I would be leaving here. God is so good!

These last weeks are going to be very busy, we have so much to do. I'll try to post more this month. :)

Blessings,

Abi

And they are gone...

Yes the end of SSME is come and all of our missionary friends are gone, the last of them left around noon. It has been such a blessing for them to have come and been with us. You don't realize how much you love living in a community until you leave one. There is something so wonderful about living in a place with like-minded people, people and friends who call you on to holiness.

I was so blessed to have SSME with us. Having the group with us called me deeper into holiness, strengthened my call to missionary life and filled me with fire again. Two of the participants are going to be serving FMC as full time missionaries now. I ask that you keep them in your prayers as it is still two months till their training. We are all very excited to see who the new missionaries will be and where they will be placed.

Oh a note on Faith Camp, we were not able to raise enough money for us to go. I guess the Lord has something better in mind for me. And His will is so much better than mine. I am sad, I would have loved to go and be renewed, but God wants me here. So His will be done.

Blessings to all,

Abi

LEAVING!

So we are leaving...really! I myself am amazed. But anyway we will be back around the 13-17 of May! I may nit have time, or be able to, blog while I'm there! So farewell for now.
~LIZZY