He knows me BUT still loves me

"You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord know it completely. You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. Where can I go from you Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, "surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me", even the darkness is as light to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. For you created my inmost being you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand- when I awake, I am still with you." Psalm 139:1-18
It comletely amazes me how much God loves me and how much He cares about me! I know now after being in Mexico for four months that I belong serving God, I am His and I want to help the helpless and the homeless those with no mother, those with no one to love them, I want to show them the LOVE of God. A God that sees all things and yet still loves you. I believe God has been preparing me for many years to serve in the mission field. I believe that is my place. That is everyones place, however it is the where you belong that is the question. Do you belong in the USA or some other country? God knows my thoughts and my desires and He is going to use me because those are my desires and He gave them to me! Thank you FATHER!!

So I have really been struggling with finding my true place in life. I have been trying to figure out if it really matters where you are in the world, if you are truly living your life for Christ. And what exactly is the right way to live your life? How do you be a true missionary no matter where you live? Well I spent a few days praying about it and reading the Word and this is what God has showed me. "If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless. Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after the orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." James 1:26-27. Those two verses really spoke to me, God has showed me so much since I have been here and now I know this is how I want to live my life. I want to help people when they are in need, the homeless, widows and orphans, there are many, many more as well. I am very excited about this! Also I have started a whole lot of new things. I have been visiting an orphanage every monday, visiting/helping a school that helps the elderly learn to read and write and exersize and all kinds of things, I also will be teaching them English starting next week. On Thursdays I am looking for a way to minister to battered women or do some form of ministry for women here in Cancun. On Fridays I am looking for some homeless people that I can bring food to or blankets and on Saturdays I am doing childrens ministry with a local pastor. I am so excited that everything is working out, God has opened so many new doors! I was able to do all of these new things last week and then we had a group come from the States, so I had to stop everything for this week. However everything will be back to normal next week!
Again thank you all for all your prayers and support.
I love you all very much, God bless

Serving God

These are the Canadians Breakfast: beans, steak, mayo

Serving, having a servants heart, being humble, these are all very good qualitys. However, they are not easy to come by. This week at bible study we talked about Matthew 5 and Luke 6, two very, very good chapters in the bible. They talk about being humble and serving others. "God blesses those who are gentle and lowley for the whole earth will belong to them. God blesses those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they will recieve it in full....Be happy about it! Be very glad! For a great award awaits you in heaven. And remember the ancient prophets were persecuted in the same way." (Matthew 5:5-6 & 12)


I have had to have patients for and with those around me as well as serve them. I am here to learn, that is what life is about, learning and serving God and others. First service to God and then to others. When someone asks you to go one mile with him go two. (paraphrased Matt 5) So I will continue to serve God and others by waiting and doing what they need of me.


I took a trip to the jungle this past weekend with some Canadian friends of mine. We went about 4 hours west of Cancun to a mission in Tinum. The mission used to be a bar until the bar tender got saved and then was tortured by the villiagers, nearly died and then left the town only to return a few years later to rebuild the bar into a mission. The owner of the mission is now 80 plus years old; he still works by traveling to Cancun working as a gardiner for five days a week and then spends the weekend in Tinum (4hours away). this man puts all his money into the mission and providing for others.


We spent our time there visiting homes of new Christians. We prayed for and with the people, and shared some more of the gospel as most of these people do not know how ot read. Almost every family would feed us and give so much even though they had very little for themselves. We also did a little medical work as one of the missionarys traveling with us had some medical training. Mariana is a very sweet lady (She is the missionary) she works two jobs and puts all here money into serving others and helping wherever she can. Mariana is a missionary from Mexico. Over all it was a great experiance, it was nice to see a different side to ministering other then just showing movies. The Canadians visit with all the same familys every two weeks. Thank you for all your prayers!

Serving God

I have a classroom!!! I am so excited and nervouse all at the same time. I have been looking for a classroom for a month now so I could teach English as a second language. I have a few students a tutore already but I needed a classroom so I could have more students and more structure. Well I now have one and I was able to have my first official class yesterday. I only had three students show up but hopefully there will be more next week. The class went great! We went over some simple vocab, the abc's, played a memory game to help remember the vocab, and learned some greatings. The students seemed to have a great time, as did I. I will keep everyone updated with the classes and how they go. I will also be posting some pictures up soon.
Please be in prayer for my mother, she needs a new job as soon as possible. She is being forced to quit under some rather unfortunate cercumstances. She needs a job with bennifts and good pay, as she has four people to support including herself.

I am amazed

Well I am still amazed and I know I shouldn't be because God always comes through, but once again I am. Last Thursday Eric, James, and I went to the Island to help out a special needs school, we were just there to help with small jobs around the school for example we pulled weeds, took care of some of the toys that needed repair, hung a mirror and a few other things. We had a lot of fun, especially when I got to use a machete to cut grass lol, anyways while we were on the island we stopped by a home, which belonged to some American's. They were extremly hospitable and seemed to want to take care of any need we might have. I told them of my desire to start a school and the lady of the house just happens to know someone on the island who has a school and might need some help for a while. I was able to get in contact with her, her name is Maggie, She does need help and on Wedensday I will be going to sit in on some of her classes and then speak with her after. I hope to be able to volenteer a couple of times and see how it is done. There is also another lady named Bunney whom I am meeting with on Thursday, she is planning on starting a school out toward the jungles for English. I hope to be able to help her as well. So I am amazed to see so much of God woking in my life it is just so evident here. If I did not meet just the right people then I would not be able to do the things i have been doing, and the way I meet people just seems so randome but I know its not randome, its all by the hand of God.

I have also continued going out to the parks to minister to the people there. The children I meet in the park are just so sweet and just want to learn and have friends. I was able to meet a family last weekend who have the desire to learn English and acctually have a book which I believe was another God thing. I believe it was a God thing because they opened my eyes to some awesome books for teaching English and then I was able to go out and by a few of them. I also was able to just love on these two little girls, I sang with them and played with them. We had fun learning each others languages and just sitting together. I love how easy it is to make friends and just fit right in with the people here. I also thank you all very much for your prayers and support I could not be doing these things with out you all. I love you all very much, thank you to all my brothers and sisters in Christ.

God has already started to use me and I have only been here four days. I did not think things would get going until monday just because that is when we are supposed to go and pass out boxes with venancio (he is the local pastor we work with or more like evangelist). Venancio also works with pastors in teaching them, he does vbs's and goes out almost every night of the week to do a bible study with a church sometimes close by sometimes hours away. He has a great attitude about it always and is always excited about serving God. Anyways back to how God is already using me, I went to the park just down the street tonight to see if I could meet some people and make some friends. I feel that is a great way to minister because while going to churches is great the people in the church already have knowledge of God and the people in the park most likely do not know about God. So I met a family and started talking with them for probably about an hour. This family was telling me how important it was for Mexicans in Cancun to learn English. They said it costs about 300 dollars in american money for one month of classes, they only get to go for about an hour once a week maybe twice. Now that seems like a lot of money for so few classes. So I am thinking and praying about starting a school where I live teaching English as a second language using bible verses. I would really love if you all would pray with me and if you had any ideas on what projects I could do to keep it interesting that would be great.