tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63280386282858485482024-03-12T17:15:40.486-07:00LINA'S LEGACYStories, photography and life in the pearl of Africa.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328038628285848548.post-66530410458071466432016-02-08T19:59:00.000-08:002016-02-08T20:43:09.695-08:00Surgery for Sharon!Crazy things have been happening in the past month, and details have been neglected, especially here on the blog.<br />
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About eight months back we found out about a hospital in Kenya that may be able to do Sharon's surgery. While the doctors were very understanding, the doctor that does heart surgeries was out of country for a while and they didn't know when he would be able to do the surgery. On top of that, the people at the Heart Institute in Uganda weren't super open to that option in the beginning either. So, we walked on. That door seemed closed for the time so we started moving towards sending her to Sudan instead. At one point a doctor at the Uganda Heart Institute made a comment that made it seem like they would be open to the possibility of sending Sharon to Kenya and/or getting in touch with the hospital to send patients there in the future. Yet, the doctor remained unavaliable.<br />
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While Sharon has been completely ready to go to Sudan for six months, she has been on a waitlist that is simply too long. Then last Friday (January 29) my dad got an email from the doctor in Kenya. My dad would occasionally write to the staff at the hospital to find out when it seemed like the doctor would be back, so he knew Sharon was still waiting. He had written to say that he was back in Kenya and if we were still interested he would like to have her come for evaluation before the surgery.<br />
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Sharon already had an appointment scheduled for that Wednesday (February 3) at the Heart Institute for more tests and medicine to help stabilize her. While the trip on Wednesday was apparently frustrating all the tests were gone. On Thursday the tests were sent to the doctor in Kenya. On Friday he responded asking for a phone number and called my dad to ask how soon they could get her there. He responded, "we could probably get her there tomorrow."<br />
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So, early morning Uganda time on Saturday a driver went to pick up Sharon and her father to make the ten hour drive to Kenya. When they got to Kenya she was in a more stable condition than the doctors expected her to be. They admitted her and have been continuing to stabilize her over the weekend. <br />
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<b>At 12:30 AM Eastern Time (8:30 AM East Africa Time) Tuesday, February 9, Sharon will be receiving the surgery she has been waiting so long for! </b>I know the surgery will probably already be over by the time most of you read this or you will be sleeping during the surgery, but please be praying for her and her recovery process.<br />
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Updates hopefully coming soon!<br />
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<i>(If you've missed all or some of Sharon's story, <a href="http://caralinag.blogspot.com/p/sharons-heart-project.html">click here</a> to read more.)</i><br />
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<i><br /></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328038628285848548.post-38759589639547510822015-11-10T17:11:00.003-08:002015-11-10T17:22:49.694-08:00This is my PlatformI am so excited to tell you about an opportunity that God has opened for me! As many of you know, I began studying at Word of Life Bible Institute in September of this year. While it is a lot of work and I miss home and my family and the kids, I am loving it. The classes have made me think deeper than I am used to and I am loving learning more about God and growing deeper in Him. <br />
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One of my favorite things about Word of Life is how ministry minded everyone is. Each student is given a ministry which they participate in about once a week. On top of this, students are given other opportunities to reach out or find their own opportunities to reach out. The student body has been challenged to take every opportunity to use whatever we can do as our platform.<br />
I'm used to my platform looking like Sunday mornings with puppets and crayons and Bible stories and sixty kids and six teenagers and trying to not get super dirty. I'm used to it looking like giving toddlers hugs and going for walks with them and taking pictures and working with special needs kids and giving high fives to preschoolers until my hands hurt.<br />
My platform definitely looks different this year, but in many ways my biggest platform still looks a lot the same. It still involves kids and crayons and Bible stories. It doesn't however have so much dirt and translation. Every Thursday I get in a van with the six other people on my ministry team and go to a school to do a Good News Club with fifty kids in kindergarten-5th grade. My responsibility is to help K-2nd and teach the kids their memory verse for the week. It is definitely not always easy, but something feels strangely familiar and comfortable about it. I am loving getting to know these kids and working with some of my fellow students here.<br />
This spring I will get to have a different platform. I have been given the amazing opportunity to go on a missions trip to Honduras over Spring Break. I am so excited for this opportunity and would love for you to be able to join me! <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Would you please commit to praying for this journey
and also pray about whether God would have you join me financially. The total financial support needed for the
trip is $1,627 and covers all of my expenses. I need to reach 50% by January
8, 2016 and 100% by February 8, 2016.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you would like to give a donation you can find the support slip <a href="https://home.wol.org/international/forms/supportslip.php?name=Caralina+Gwartney+&country=Honduras+Mission+Trip&fundid=1YA020">here</a> or if you would like to give online, please go to <a href="https://give.wol.org/cgwartney">https://give.wol.org/cgwartney</a>. If you would like to join my prayer team please contact me with your email address and I will add you to my email list.</span><br />
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We have raised a total of $4,000. The good news is we have been told of a hospital in Sudan that does free surgery. So she has a passport and is on the hospital wait list for surgery.<br />
Thanks to everyone who has helped get her this far. Please continue praying as it appears to be a long wait.<br />
<span id="goog_1888762572"></span><span id="goog_1888762573"></span><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328038628285848548.post-86440842789174777562015-03-10T06:52:00.000-07:002015-03-10T07:33:13.324-07:00Guest Post at Teens Interceding for OrphansI love watching all the things God is doing for Sharon. This one has been in the works for a while, but yesterday, a guest post I wrote was posted over at Teens Interceding for Orphans. It is a little bit different than the one I wrote here, so I thought I would share it here. You can read it by clicking this link - <a href="http://teensintercedingfororphans.com/2015/03/09/praying-for-a-heart/" target="_blank">http://teensintercedingfororphans.com/2015/03/09/praying-for-a-heart/</a>.<br />
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Thank you all for the ways you have been helping Sharon. We just got the February reports and we now have a total of around $3000 raised. There are some other exciting things happening that I cannot wait to share with you.<br />
If you missed Sharon's story, you can find the original post <a href="http://caralinag.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-birthday-wish.html" target="_blank">here</a> and the follow up post <a href="http://caralinag.blogspot.com/2015/02/meeting-sharon.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">If you have not donated to Sharon's heart project yet, and you would like to, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">click </span><a href="http://globaloutreach.org/missionaries.html#GwartneyM" style="background-color: white; color: #6699cc; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">this link</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">, click on ‘Gwartney family’, and make sure to put in the comments (or note to seller), ‘</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Sharon’s heart project’. </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">100% of your donation will go to Sharon’s fund.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">If any extra is collected, it will be used for medical projects for other people in our community.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">If anything should happen to Sharon before her heart surgery or should we raise more than our goal, any remaining funds will also be used for other medical projects in our community. Thank you!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328038628285848548.post-23180913757841910542015-02-19T11:19:00.001-08:002015-02-20T11:54:08.471-08:00Meeting Sharon.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<i>{This is an update of sorts to Sharon's story. If you have not read the first part yet, please go read it <a href="http://caralinag.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-birthday-wish.html" target="_blank">here</a> before reading this one. It explains a lot of the back story.}</i></div>
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"Sharon's at the office and she wants to meet you," my mom said. I grabbed my camera and we hopped in the car and drove down to the office. <br />
When we got there the social worker introduced us and one of my first thoughts was how much weight she's lost since the picture I saw of her in December. They showed us a purse that Sharon had made. I have no idea how they did it, but it is pretty cool anyways. <br />
A few weeks back we had asked Sharon (by a message through her mom) to make potholders. One of the missionaries (Auntie Lisa) is going back for furlough and had offered to buy a bunch and take them back as gifts if Sharon could make them. Sharon didn't know what exactly a potholder was, so we called Auntie Lisa and asked her to bring a sample down. When she arrived, we began discussing the project. The social worker asked her if she thought she could make one or two samples this week to bring and show us. She and all the other ladies around started laughing. "I can make ten in a day!" she said. She told us that all she needs is dye to make colored mats. Hopefully, we can get her started so she can make lots of these for Auntie Lisa to take back and for us to sell to teams when they come. This will be a huge help to Sharon and I could tell that she enjoys making them and having a part in raising money for her surgery.</div>
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I'm so glad I got to meet Sharon yesterday. It is so good to have a face, a voice, a person to think about as I am working on this project. Leaving the office yesterday, my mom and I were talking about how much more urgent her situation has become. The doctors have also told her that she cannot go to school because 'her heart is too weak.'<br />
Last week I was given the opportunity to write a guest post about Sharon on another blog. It has been quite a bit harder than I was expecting. After yesterday I started really trying to pick up speed to get it done. Please pray as I am finishing it up. I have a few people proofreading it right now and hopefully I can get it posted this weekend. Please be praying for that and for Sharon's heart to be in a good enough condition until we have raised enough money for her to India and get surgery. <br />
If you have not donated to Sharon's heart project yet, and you would like to, <span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">click </span><a href="http://globaloutreach.org/missionaries.html#GwartneyM" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">this link</a><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">, click on ‘Gwartney family’, and make sure to put in the comments (or note to seller), ‘</span><b style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Sharon’s heart project’. </b><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">100% of your donation will go to Sharon’s fund.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">If any extra is collected, it will be used for medical projects for other people in our community.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">If anything should happen to Sharon before her heart surgery or should we raise more than our goal, any remaining funds will also be used for other medical projects in our community.</span><br />
Please feel free to share this on any social media sites you have!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328038628285848548.post-34327018664196718922014-12-30T11:11:00.001-08:002015-03-04T11:41:57.479-08:00A Birthday Wish<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><b>Read an update about Sharon <a href="http://caralinag.blogspot.com/2015/02/meeting-sharon.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal;"><i>{Please read this story to the end to see what my birthday wish is and how you can help.}</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal;">On January 1, 1997, in a little village in Uganda a baby girl was born. Her mama was only 16 years old, yet this was her second child. She was probably born in their dark, little home in an unhygienic situation. Her name would be Sharon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal;">The next day, January 2, 1997, an ocean away in Singapore, another baby was born. Her parents were American missionaries there and she was their firstborn. She was born in a nice hospital. She was given the name Caralina.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal;">The little girls lived separate lives. Caralina moved back to America and lived a practically normal childhood for a little girl in America and would soon have a little sister and brother. Sharon would live a much more difficult life, gaining many more siblings and, at one point when she was 18 months old, getting very sick. Her parents would take her to a small hospital where all tests were negative, so they sent her to a bigger hospital. There they would find out that she had heart problems, most likely caused by undetected and untreated strep throat. In 2008, Caralina and her family moved to Good Shepherd's Fold Orphanage in Uganda, only a thirty minute walk from Sharon, but still the girls never met. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal;">Then, a few things happened. Sharon was preparing to take the national primary school exam in August 2013. With all the stress, she suddenly began having heart problems again, got very sick and was taken to the big government hospital. They quickly admitted her even though they knew the family could not pay {this is very rare for a hospital to do in Uganda, so it must have been urgent}. Then, in February 2014, Sharon's mother had another baby and that baby was put on GSF's feeding program. In December, when Caralina's mother heard Sharon sing at the feeding program Christmas party, their worlds touched. After hearing Sharon's story, Caralina's mother asked for more information to see how they could help. After seeing the information, she was shocked to see that Sharon was born only one day before her daughter, Caralina's birthday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal;">Upon hearing about Sharon, I {Caralina} wanted to do something to help her. I kept seeing her picture around our house on the front page of the report about her and wishing I actually knew her and could talk to her. Since we only found out about Sharon right before the holidays I have not yet met her, but hope to soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Here's the details: When Sharon was taken to the government hospital in August 2013, they told her she needed to go to India for heart surgery. Since Sharon currently does not have the funds to go to India, she has to travel to the government hospital every month, to get medicine to help stabilize her heart. In order to fund these trips, she enjoys making mats which she sells for a little less than the equivalent of $5, but she has to sell six each month in order to make the journey and buy the medicine. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">The trip to India will cost approximately $8000 and the family's debt at the government hospital is almost $500.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal;">Sharon's 18th birthday is on Thursday and mine is on Friday. <b>My birthday wish is to give Sharon a gift with your help - her debt being cleared and her India trip/surgery paid for. My goal is to raise $10,000 to make sure all her fees are covered.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Would you like to help me achieve my birthday wish and give Sharon a birthday gift she won't soon forget? Click <a href="http://globaloutreach.org/missionaries.html#GwartneyM" target="_blank">here</a> to donate.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click on 'Support' under the Gwartney family, put in the comments </span>'Sharon's Heart Project'. <span style="font-size: x-small;">All funds with this designation will be used for Sharon's expenses. If extra funds are collected or if any thing happens to Sharon before her heart surgery, all extra funds will be used for other medical projects in our surrounding villages. Thank you!</span></span><br />
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We are officially into the Christmas season at GSF!<br />
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Our Christmas celebrations actually began on the last day of November. Many of the kids at GSF go visit their families over the Christmas holiday. We had a 'Christmas eve party' of sorts for them before they went. We had a traditional Ugandan meal for them and then they all got stockings. Their stockings were filled with things they will use in the village, such as toothpaste, toothbrushes, vaseline and soap. They also got some things they will enjoy like cookies, candy and juice. We miss the kids while they are gone, but they enjoy their time. We also have eight kids that are being resettled this year. So sad to see them go, but glad they are in families now!<br />
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The Ugandan school year runs on the calendar year, so school 'speech day' was held in December. Speech day is where each class sings a song or does a dance or something. The main event is K5 graduation. All the parents come, especially if their kids are graduating. It is a big deal to graduate from K5 and parents come from all over to watch their kids graduate. I was not able to be there for the whole thing since I was in school, but I was so glad to be there for the graduation part. Eight GSF kids graduated - three of our girls were the top three in the class! My mom shared some of their stories here.<br />
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Friday was the GSF staff party. The staff party always happens the last party before most of the staff take their two weeks off for Christmas and new year. Each department does a presentation of a dance, song or skit {or all three :)}. There is lunch served by the missionaries and cake. Each staff member gets a gift and some beef from a cow slaughtered at GSF. Since we have a Colombian missionary who has served at GSF for 17 years, it has become a tradition for her to sing 'Feliz Navidad' every year. This year she slooooowly pulled up ALL the staff members on stage to sing.<br />
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We have enjoyed having all these parties and look forward to celebrating Christmas with the kids, staff and missionaries still at GSF this week!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328038628285848548.post-53881608396533071912014-12-06T02:45:00.001-08:002014-12-06T02:45:47.559-08:00Word of Life 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I am excited to announce that I have been accepted to begin Word of Life in Fall of 2015!</div>
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Yes, I realize that I am just finally getting around to announcing this almost a month after I was officially accepted.<br />
Here is a link that I previously shared <a href="http://caralinag.blogspot.com/2014/09/future-thoughts-plans.html" target="_blank">about my thoughts for the future</a>.<br />
Please continue to pray as I go through my final year at GSF {makes me so sad} and also try to get more experience in the areas I am looking at going into.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328038628285848548.post-12827454292135982142014-10-13T06:44:00.001-07:002014-10-13T06:46:36.209-07:00Redemption.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Five months ago, while we sat in church Bible study, a group of girls passed by on their way back home from getting water and looked in the door. There was nothing unusual about this, it happens multiple times every week. But this week was different. This week, one of the girls set down her jerry can and told her friends something, obviously trying to convince them of something. Soon, she walked in the door and sat down on the bench. Her friends watched for a while and then picked up their jerry cans and moved on. This girl stayed. She introduced herself and sat and listened. She had been coming to church in the past, but in recent days, our church had a shift and she and many of her friends and stopped coming so often. Over the past five months we have seen her almost every Sunday and even many Thursdays when she doesn't have school.<br />
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Two months ago, a man stood up in church and introduced himself as a prophet. It soon became clear that he was a false prophet. Many of the first things he said sounded so true, but it soon became obvious that he had done his research about the church because he started saying things that were not true at all. At the end of the service, two of our church leaders sat down and talked with him. They found out that he was not even a Christian. However, after talking with him for a while he decided that he wanted to become a Christian. Since then he has been an active member in our church and has been learning more and more about God's love for him.<br />
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Two weeks ago, another man walked into our church and introduced himself as wanting to get saved. He walked out with our pastor and got saved right then. He came back in and gave testimony that he had been spending any money he got on alcohol {most of us had guessed that}, but he felt that he didn't want to live that life anymore. He had now given his life to God and wanted God to take over his life and help him leave the old life behind. He has come to church the last two Sundays, sober and eager to worship.<br />
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A week ago, fourteen GSF kids asked for their name to be put on a list because they wanted to be baptized. Each kids was matched with an adult to have a conversation with before the baptisms. One of those kids is already a Christian, but after more conversation, it was decided that he is not ready to take this step yet. Five of them were younger and did not yet understand everything about salvation and/or baptism. However, they have now gotten to start this conversation with an adult and we pray that God will continue moving in their hearts as they think about the things they have been told in the past week. We also had two other kids who are Christians, but did not sign up at first because they wanted some time to ponder it.<br />
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Saturday, October 11th, the sun was beating down on the little blow-up pool on GSF's field. It was baptism day for Light of the World Church. We met at GSF because we had clean running water for baptisms. Many people got baptized that day. A girl who had to break away from the crowd to follow Jesus. A former false prophet. An ex-drunk man. Mothers. Grandmothers. Young people and adults. People who had been saved for a while or just a few days. A few people who had rededicated their lives that week. In total, there were 11 people from GSF and 11 others - in total 22 people. It was such a blessing to see not only children, but also many adults taking this step to get baptized. Rejoice with us for these lives and join us in praying for them as they continue to grow in faith. Also, please be praying for the other kids at GSF who have begun conversations about salvation, that God would continue to move in their hearts.<br />
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The question I've been asked most recently is 'what are your plans after high school?' {or some form of that}. In the beginning it made me pretty nervous because NOTHING felt firm. Now, I've gotten more comfortable answering it, partially because I'm feeling more sure of my plans and partly because I've answered that question so many times now. I kind of just know now how to answer that question without making anything sound too firm. This morning when my mom suggested that I write this post, it made me nervous again, but here I am writing it because I am sure many of you are asking some of these questions. Let us go through question by question.</div>
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<b>When do you graduate high school? </b>I technically am in my senior year right now and will finish in April. But, I was doing online school and when you have bad internet and you aren't too good at math, well, you get the picture. I need an extra math. I will be doing it all in one semester since that will be my only class and we have an experienced high school math teacher here right now.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dream seemed like a good word for this post.</td></tr>
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<b>What next? </b>Really good question. The only thing I know for sure is that I am basically set on going to Word of Life in Florida for a year. Word of Life is a Bible Institute {and they also have camps and other things} that has 4 campuses. You can do 1 year, 2 year and 3 year courses. You can find out more on their <a href="http://wordoflife.edu/" target="_blank">website here</a>. It seems like the most convenient time for me would be Spring 2016. But that is only for closure reasons. The Florida campus is small and everyone takes the same classes, so it looks like Fall 2016 might be better on that end. I don't know exact numbers yet, but I am guessing not a whole lot of students go in the spring semester and it probably wouldn't be the best for a student to start in the middle of the year.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sorry for all the hand pictures. I apparently have a lot of them.</td></tr>
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<b>Are you looking at colleges? Which ones? </b>Yes. My current choices are Union University {In Jackson, Tennessee} and Liberty University {in Lynchburg, Virginia}.</div>
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<b>What are you looking at majoring in? </b>At this point, my options are Photojournalism and Special Education. I say 'at this point' because I have recently been investigating a 3rd option, but it is all new, so I'm just not going to mention it here now.</div>
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<b>Why Photojournalism and Special Education? </b>Basically because I love writing, photography, helping people with special needs and teaching. And I believe I am gifted in all of them. I've had a good amount of experience in all of these areas and feel pretty comfortable in them. At this point I am leaning towards Special Ed because it is easier to do photography and writing without having special degrees.</div>
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That is the basic rundown so far. Overall, I am so glad that God is in control and already knows where I will be in 2 years, 3 years, 5 years, etc. Please join me in praying for these things.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Couldn't end this post without this adorable picture of Kenny. Love it and him so much!</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328038628285848548.post-19469069426412340142014-06-06T01:56:00.000-07:002014-06-06T01:56:34.833-07:00The Power of an Obedient Life.<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?-->
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Wayne and Bonnie Sue Walker moved to Uganda in 1994 to help the orphans of Uganda. They moved into a small house with their 6 children under age 4 {all adopted} and began taking children in. They soon moved to a two-story house. For over 200 children, the 'Main House' became home and the Walkers became "Mommy" and "Daddy". The main house was growing too small for so many people. A missionary who was there at the time {and is still here 16 years later!} explains, "I remember thinking that kids came out of the walls. Every corner I turned, there would be more kids and I would think, 'Hey, I never seen that one before!'" <br />
And so in 2001, GSF, with the help of Samaritan's Purse, was able to move to 100-acres of land with clean, running water and individual group homes. Homes were added on as time went on. After a few years of living on the new land and years of touching many lives in Uganda, the Walkers felt called to move on {They now have adopted 13 children from 7 countries and helped orphans in Thailand as well}. However, they were often fondly remembered at GSF and by all who had worked or lived here while they were around.<br />
Thus, it was with a sad heart that around 200 people gathered at GSF on December 7, 2013 to remember the lady who so many knew and loved as 'Mommy". After a four-year battle with cancer she passed away on Thanksgiving day in 2013. As people gathered and shared testimonies, stories and memories of 'mommy' I was absolutely amazed at her legacy. This is the power of one obedient life.<br />
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May 9, 2014 was GSFs 20th anniversary celebration. Months and months of preparation had gone into this one day. The beginning is a bit disrupted by the rain, but we carry on. Finally, when the rain stopped and everyone had eaten lunch my dad {the current director of GSF} got up to speak. His speech was introducing Mr. Walker and a bit of how he had lost his legs in Vietnam. As he got to the end, he had to speak over the crowd who was clapping and cheering so loudly. "Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming our guest of honor, Mr. Wayne Walker." The crowd immediately rose in a standing ovation. As a stood there, I was once again overcome by the power of one obedient life. And a God who takes our humble efforts and uses them for His glory.<br />
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He came from a place no one
likes. No one wants to go. People use it as a joke and an offence. He’s nearby playing now, carefree and seemingly
innocent. Someone mentions that he is
from that place. “They are real a
lot there, and yet this one was chosen.”
“Yes, he is the blessed one.” <b>Blessed.
</b>God chose to bless this little boy.
To bless him with love, home and family.
To bring him from a place no child should have to be. God chose to use this little boy's life to bless the kids at GSF. To give them the
blessing of seeing that, out of things the world sees as curses, God can give us
blessings.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The little two-year-old snuggles up
close. Several illnesses and more medicines
than you can imagine often make her sick. She vomits every day and is pretty
malnourished. However, she doesn’t stay
down very long. She is often found
wobbling around with her little tongue sticking out, full of joy. <b>Joy. </b>The very thing she wouldn’t be expected
to have, but she is full of it. Just as
God chose to bless us with the 6-year-old boy, he chose to give us a new joy
through this 2-year-old girl. To give her
the joy of family, love and hope. To
give us joy through her.</div>
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Rejoice with us for the way God is
blessing these kids and us. Please also
keep them in your prayers as they adjust to life at GSF. Especially pray for
this sweet girl to gain health again soon.<o:p></o:p></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328038628285848548.post-22802556365153183482014-01-01T05:49:00.000-08:002014-01-01T05:49:09.839-08:00Updates from GSFMerry Christmas and a Happy New Year from GSF! As a new year begins, I want to share 5 things you can do to keep in touch with GSF.<br />
1) <b>Like</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Good-Shepherds-Fold-Orphanage/133504998610" target="_blank">GSF's Facebook page </a>to see more cute pictures of the kids, updates about all that is going on and how to pray for GSF.<br />
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2) <b>Visit </b>GSF's website which has just recently been updated and looks really awesome! <a href="http://www.goodshepherdsfold.org/" target="_blank">Good Shepherd's Fold website</a></div>
3) <b>Watch </b>this video that gives a picture of a day at GSF. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151945457818611" target="_blank">Click here to watch the video!</a><br />
4) <b>Read </b>GSF's newsletter. I'm sharing it here, but if you can't read it, find it on the GSF Facebook page, comment on the post and they'll send it to you in Facebook messenger.<br />
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5) <b>Share</b> any of these things on your social media page(s)!<br />
Thank you!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328038628285848548.post-9509113141365810742013-11-01T14:22:00.001-07:002013-11-01T14:32:02.032-07:00Special<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Gracie came to GSF with many delays. The doctor didn't think she would ever be able to do anything. At 9 months old, she couldn't sit up, crawl or put pressure on her legs. All the things most babies would be beginning to do around her age. A few doctors thought she would progress, but they said she would NEVER catch up, she would always be delayed.<br />
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Little Ivan came to GSF at 2 years old. He had spinal TB and was never taken for any treatment before he was brought to GSF. The hump on his back was so big no one knew if he would ever be able to walk. There was a possibility that he had other special needs and delays as well.<br />
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When they came to GSF {at different times} we began praying that God would help them overcome their 'disabilities'. Today is a very special day as it is Gracie and Ivan's birthday! Today, we not only celebrate their lives, but the progress they have made! Gracie is sitting up, crawling and even standing with help! Ivan is walking ALL OVER THE PLACE and is copying everything he hears his friends say! They both have such big, fun personalities!<br />
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Praise God with us for the milestones these little ones are making and please join us in praying for them to continue making progress. Happy birthday, Gracie and Ivan, I love you!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328038628285848548.post-15872415678712577242013-10-24T18:00:00.000-07:002013-10-24T08:32:36.482-07:00Prayers please<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I am sitting writing this from Entebbe. Early Friday morning, I get on
a plane and head to America. I will be in Florida for two weeks and then head back. I will meet up with my dad who is in America for 6 weeks. The main reason for this trip is for medical
purposes. Would you
please be praying as I am traveling by myself?</div>
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Would you
please also be in prayer for two of our kids, Kathy and Sebastian. Kathy is one of our sweet
special needs girls and she just had a surgery yesterday morning to have a part of her colon removed. It went well, but she will have to be in the hospital for another 5 - 7 days. I was able to go see her in the hospital today and she is doing well, but just wants all the IVs and things off. Please be praying for her as she has a long recovery journey. Sebastian will be getting tubes in his ears Monday morning.</div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Thank you
for joining us in prayer!</span></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328038628285848548.post-69464349590127394062013-09-28T09:10:00.001-07:002013-09-29T07:12:09.621-07:00WalkingThis week I have been encouraged to see three of our sweet kids walking this week. I know many of you have been praying for them, so I wanted to share some of the joy! <i>{If you do not know much about these kids, please click on the captions to read more of their stories and why we are rejoicing that they are walking this week!}</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://caralinag.blogspot.com/2013/03/little-ivan-came-to-gsf-about-2-weeks.html" target="_blank">Ivan</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://caralinag.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-gift-of-esther.html" target="_blank">Esther</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That stick will take her far and hopefully one day she will no longer have to use it!</td></tr>
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Praise God for his provision for these 3 blessings!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328038628285848548.post-79688747659484533132013-09-21T00:59:00.003-07:002013-09-21T01:01:18.986-07:00He will redeem.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Tiny 20 month old Alex snuggles up against my chest. My heart cries out, <i>'why is this happening? Why is he still losing weight after living at GSF for almost 5 weeks? Why will he still not eat very much? Why does he have no will to live?' </i>Then I stop and I remember.<br />
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I remember when Leticia. '"<i>For I know the plans I have for her", declares the Lord.'*</i></div>
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I remember Philip. '<i>For my plans for him are good'*</i><br />
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I remember Isma and Moses. '<i>For I won't let evil and disaster win against Isma and Moses.'*</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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I remember Richard '<i>For I have given him a hope.'*</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">I remember Gracie '</span><i style="text-indent: 0in;">I have given her a future.'*</i></div>
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I have to think, that if God could redeem Leticia, Philip, Isma, Moses, Richard, Gracie and so many others, he can redeem Alex.</div>
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<i style="text-indent: 0in;">“For I know the plans I have for Alex,” says the Lord. “Plans for good, not to let evil win against him, to give him a hope and a future.” ~Jeremiah 29:11</i><br />
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<i>*A paraphrase of Jeremiah 29:11, changed to add in the kids names.</i></div>
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I walk slowly ahead of her as she
crawls on her knees. Her name is Esther
and she’s 8-years-old. I’ve only known
her for 11 days and I already feel like she is changing my life. Really, like God is using her to change my
life. Esther is such a gift to the GSF
family. Girls who have always shut down
around me have suddenly opened up to me mainly because they see that Esther and
I need their help to communicate {she doesn’t speak English} and they love
Esther so much they want to help her. It
opens them up to me and seriously, I have had girls who have run away from me
before {slightly playfully} come running up to me to give me hugs. This is huge – I thought I would never get
some of these girls to let me talk to them or even just sit with them
again. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Esther got ‘sick’ when she was two
years old and can no longer walk. If I
said this limits Esther’s ability to move I would be a big liar. She is just like a normal little girl only
she has horrible wounds on her hands and feet and she ‘walks’ on her
knees. When I say she walks I really
mean it. She puts shoes on her knees
holds her legs up off the ground and scoots around. She can walk a long way like this and she is
fast! She can keep up with all the other
girls walking at a normal pace. She
dances – oh, she loves to dance! And the
swings, she asks me to take her to the swings every time I see her and how can
I say no? She’s already on her way
anyways when she asks me. As I was
walking down to the swings with her the other day and the other kids were watching,
it hit me. We are watching a miracle
through Esther. It doesn’t seem so
obvious because we didn’t get to watch the first half of this miracle. She learned to take care of herself and do
everything a normal little girl would do before she came to us. We didn’t get to watch that, but that’s ok
because as we watch her, we are watching the second half of her miracle
happen. She is learning so many new
things every day. She’s learning
that we are her <i>family </i>for right now
and we love her so much! Hopefully and
prayerfully, when her wounds heal up on her feet, she will be able to walk
again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Please be praying for her as she
adjusts to this new life. She will be
taken to a clinic that specializes in skin diseases in Tuesday, so please be
praying that they will be able to help her!
We are very hopeful that she will be able to walk again but please be
praying for that as well because she currently has no feeling in her feet. The nurses here say that she will probably
regain that feeling when her wounds heal up, but we can’t really be sure.<o:p></o:p></div>
<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Praise God with us for the gift of Esther!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Esther standing on her knees to sing with the rest of us at Church.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In October
of last year, 2 men who work at GSF started a Church in the village. Although this is not a GSF Church, the GSF family
is members there. The first building we
rented was a school during the week and Light of the World Church on the
weekends. There is a passion in this Church. And seriously ... I never knew such short people could jump so high! It was very crammed in this little building and very hot, but these people still praised God with all their hearts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sunday, June 23, 2013.</span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> One of our members was cleaning out the
Church building getting ready for the services that morning when people from
the school came several times and told her to get out. The elders were actually planning to announce to
the Church that morning that we would be looking for a new building. But, it came sooner than they expected and we
couldn’t meet there according to these people.
Yes, you read that right. We were
kicked out. Evicted. {In Ugandan words…} Fired. What would we do? After a little bit of a discussion, it was
decided that the best thing to do was just meet right there outside the
building. Pastor Sam preached a powerful
message about the Church. <i>‘We are the Church, turn to your neighbor
and tell them, ‘you and me, we are the Church’. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When your sitting outside and the hot sun is burning you and you
don’t know what will happen next week, you realize that nothing else matters. All we need is Jesus and a crowd of others
who will worship him with us – that is the Church. When your sitting in front of an empty
building and people are throwing dirt inside so you cannot meet – this is when
we realize what the Church is. The
CHURCH is a group of believers who stands by each other even in the hardest of
times. It all seemed so surreal. This could not really be happening. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">At the end, we – the Church – stood in a
circle and joined hands and prayed and sang for about 20 – 30 minutes. And God had already answered our
prayers. It was comforting to know that that
morning, God hadn’t freaked out – He already knew what would happen and he had
a plan. As we stood in the circle, we sang a song
called, ‘Bind Us’. It says,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Bind us together, oh bind us dear Lord, with cords that cannot be
broken, bind us dear Lord.</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And as we
stood there, He did just that. We were
bound as the Church. Watching these
people after the service was so hard. We
were going through the fire, but God used this to build an even bigger fire in
each of our hearts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">God surely
provided in some amazing ways for Light of the World Church. As I mentioned before, the Church elders had
seen it coming that we would be kicked out, so they were already searching for
land. That very Sunday afternoon, someone
who had been offering to sell us land called Pastor Sam to come to his house. He told Pastor Sam that he knew we did not
have enough money for the land but he wanted us to go ahead and use it. He was fully aware that even within a year we
may not have all the money, but he felt called to let us start using it anyways. The best part? He didn’t have any idea what had happened
that morning. So Wednesday, the Church
elders, after looking at the property decide to go forward with it. Throughout the week, part of the land was
cleared. It is in total 1 acre, but the
man who owns the land has been growing maize on the entire thing. Part of it has been cleared for our buildings
and the rest of it will be left until harvest time. Throughout the week, many people in the
Church volunteered their talents and by Saturday the Church building/operation
was in full swing. They moved incredibly
fast – I have never seen something happen so fast in Uganda. Several people in the Church offered their
papyrus leaves, one man volunteered to lead the building project. The poles are from Eucalyptus trees that we
are growing at GSF. Someone made
uniforms for the choir.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This is week 6
in this building and it just keeps growing – there is now a tarp over the roof,
the poles inside are painted and they have even built a stage of sorts. It has been so great to have this new
building. It is bigger than the old
building, has so much more airflow and we have more room to renovate it. We also have enough land for a Jr. Church
tent. This has been great because in the
last building we just met standing right outside the Church. Once the rest of the maize is cleared, the
shelter will be moved further away from the main building. This way we can have Jr. Church without
worrying about disturbing main service {Have you ever tried to have 50 kids
sing <i>quietly </i>before? Yeah, not fun.}<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">One Sunday
our pastor announces that Light of the World Church will be having their very
first overnight AND they invited 17 other Churches to come and join us. Let me pause to explain overnights. Everybody in the Church and normally other
Churches, goes to the Church around 8 pm and leaves around 7 am and they all
stay up and sing, pray and listen to {Short} sermons. So, after this announcement, 3 different
people came and asked me if I was coming to the overnight. At first I was not very excited about it, {I
mean, just think – 17 Churches invited = about 20 pastors speaking} but, I told
them I would try. So, I asked a couple
of people if they would be coming {so I could walk with them since it would be
dark} and by the end of the day I found that I was actually very excited about
it. So at 8 PM one Friday night I
grabbed my sweater, a cup of tea {so I could stay awake} and my phone. We were planning to come back at 11 PM so we
wouldn’t have to stay up all night. As
soon as we left the compound, I started second-guessing going to this. The flashlight on my phone suddenly seemed
very dim and the 9 girls I was walking with had no light at all. I was tired and</span> <span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">who
knew if we would actually make it without someone falling. It was so dark! Let’s just say that I was very relieved when
we got there! There is not a single
regret now that I went. Around 500
people showed up! And God came to that
little tiny room and moved in big ways.
Pastor Sam told some guys to ‘tear down the wall in back’ {I’m not
kidding} so that other people could sit outside without feeling separated from
the rest of the Church. They had me
sitting right up front with all the pastors.
More people</span> <span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">kept coming in, so they made me
stand up {not that I cared – I felt awkward sitting with the pastors}.</span> <span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I stood in</span> <span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">the doorway because I didn’t want to miss out what was happening
inside. Then my friend from the choir
{Esther} came and asked me to sit with her on the ground in front. I seriously wish I had a picture of where we
were sitting. We sat against the back
wall, behind the pastors and the choir with everyone facing us. My friend put down a scarf on the ground and
we just sat on that. It was such a
unique experience that I am forever grateful for! People danced with all their energy {that was
still left by 10:00}, they sang with all their hearts and they prayed what was
really deep down inside and they meant every word. Pastors preached and spoke and introduced themselves. I could have stayed all night for the singing
and dancing. And the preaching? Let’s just say I drank a lot of tea during
those parts {Especially after 10 PM}. It
was just so amazing to see how God worked through our trials for His
glory. He brought us closer together as
a Church, he filled us with more passion for Him and he brought us to the exact
location He wanted us to be in.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The pastors
and the congregations felt it. They want
more. They want more of what Light of
the World Church has. There are some
amazing things coming in the future for Light of the World. People are asking for more and we are just
waiting for God to put the details into place.
After all, he already brought us through the fire.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">On a funnier
note. As we were walking back from the
overnight, one of the boys asked me if I had met/seen my friend's sisters. 'No.' ‘They were there, I saw them!’
Like because I know her I should be able to pick them out of a crowd of
500 dark people in dim light. But the next story is
better. I went to the toddler house and
one of the house mamas was standing outside with a man. She asked me, ‘Caro, do you remember this
one?’ Um, no. {I honestly couldn’t remember if it was her
pastor or her son}. ‘Eeeehhhh, but you
were there ‘together’ at the overnight.
He’s my son.’ ‘Mmm, okay. Nice to see you again.’ But really inside I’m thinking, I was there
‘together’ with him and 500 other people and she expects me to remember
him? I was not introduced to a single
person at the overnight, but they
still expected me to pick out and remember people. Geez, I’ve got a whole lot to work on!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Praise God with us for his grace and provision! Read more about the big story of this little Church that my dad wrote over on my family's <a href="http://gwartney.blogspot.com/search/label/church" target="_blank">blog</a>.</div>
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Then, we took the train to Paris and stayed there for a couple of days. You could see the Eiffel Tower from our hotel room.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My cousin, Casey, you can see the Eiffel Tower behind her. This is from our hotel room.</td></tr>
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Then, we went to London for a couple of days!</div>
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Thursday, July 11, 2013. Sweet Tiny Rosie ended her short, painful life on earth and began her eternal, joyful life in heaven. She lived 11 years on earth and we were blessed to have her at GSF with us for the last 4 years.<br />
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I hope to write more about her life later on, but for now I leave you with some quotes, verses and songs that I have thought about as I think about Rosie over the past couple of days.<br />
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<i><span class="versetext" id="1co1-27" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">But God chose what the world considers foolish to shame the wise. God chose what the world considers weak to shame the strong. </span><span class="versetext" id="1co1-28" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> And God chose what the world considers low-class and low-life—what is considered to be nothing—to reduce what is considered to be something to nothing. ~ 1 Corinthians 1 27 - 28</span></i><br />
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Don't be mad if I cry<br />It just hurts so bad sometimes<br />'Cause everyday it's sinking in<br />And I have to say goodbye all over again<br /><br />You know I bet it feels good<br />To have the weight of this world<br />Off Your shoulders now<br />I'm dreaming of the day<br />When I'm finally there with You<br /><br />Save a place for me, save a place for me<br />I'll be there soon, I'll be there soon<br />Save a place for me, save some grace for me<br />I'll be there soon, I'll be there soon<br /><br />I have asked the questions why<br />But I guess the answer's for another time<br />So instead I'll pray with every tear<br />And be thankful for the time I had You here<br /><br />So You just save a place for me, save a place for me<br />I'll be there soon, I'll be there soon<br />Save a place for me, save some grace for me<br />I'll be there soon, I'll be there<br /><br />I wanna live my life just like You did<br />And make the most of my time just like You did<br />And I wanna make my home up in the sky<br />Just like You did, oh, but until I get there<br />Until I get there<br /><br />Just save a place for me, save a place for me<br />'Cause I will be there soon<br /><br />Save a place for me, save a place for me<br />I'll be there soon, I'll be there soon<br /><br />Don't be mad if I cry<br />It just hurts so bad</div>
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And the King says, “Look! God and
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running away. Or hiding. No more crying or being lonely or afraid. No more being sick or dying. Because all those things are gone. Yes, they’re gone forever. <b>Everything
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<span style="color: black; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px;">"Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind!" ~Henri Frederic Amiel</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">For another perspective on Rosie's life and death <a href="http://outcastsofafrica.aimsites.org/2013/07/14/another-one-is-dancing/" target="_blank">click here.</a></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb_UkZjVbFNajOInOOrL4M646KyJ9RyBp4DqF0M4tCsA21SzzDvQMpt-zVY1vC_Id8V2Dw1pl0GryJU-wX_EU0PU4PD-yoXosBH-SD4aGoZLFdW6OhZxFPI1dZ7pzEV_xoCWHdRI6bz-Q/s1600/Moses.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb_UkZjVbFNajOInOOrL4M646KyJ9RyBp4DqF0M4tCsA21SzzDvQMpt-zVY1vC_Id8V2Dw1pl0GryJU-wX_EU0PU4PD-yoXosBH-SD4aGoZLFdW6OhZxFPI1dZ7pzEV_xoCWHdRI6bz-Q/s320/Moses.jpg" width="320" /></a>We welcomed in another sweet little one this week! His name is Moses Muwanguzi {which is a Luganda word meaning winner}. GSF has worked with his family before and his siblings are the 2 little ones that came last week. He is 4 years old, but is extremely malnourished and is about the same size as his 20 month old sister. <br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg0cGXpAzjgg2ve_3-K-gaTm9r4tjB0QWhRVfc4RbAoQUiRmuHi-96DRAQrlCGPi4eL3kVv9YkurH9Pz7WjDbx8SrF2BvGobUMnx0ZTngYRAcdw_EDusiFjhOeCnRyjgeiecTFkQKeBv4/s1600/Siblings.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg0cGXpAzjgg2ve_3-K-gaTm9r4tjB0QWhRVfc4RbAoQUiRmuHi-96DRAQrlCGPi4eL3kVv9YkurH9Pz7WjDbx8SrF2BvGobUMnx0ZTngYRAcdw_EDusiFjhOeCnRyjgeiecTFkQKeBv4/s320/Siblings.jpg" width="214" /></a>He does not move very much, but can scoot across the floor a little bit. He has a possibility of scoliosis, which may have stunted his growth a little and made it hard for him to move. He is not so sure about playing with the other kids yet, but loves all the new toys he is finding. He especially likes the little baby piano and the shaker. He is settling in to his new home and is often found sitting away from the other kids or on someones lap, with his little tongue sticking out {as seen in the first picture}. He is very shy at first, but will warm up eventually and gives lots of smiles and an occasional laugh. Just as with all of our kids, it is sad that he had to come, because of his situation, but we are so glad he is here now! It has been good to have the three siblings reunited, although they don't interact much.<br />
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<i>{Sebastian and Moses will both be taken to the orthopedic hospital on Monday, Sebastian goes in just for a check up of his cleft pallet surgery and Moses will be going to get checked for Scoliosis. Please be praying!}</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328038628285848548.post-67785186884926121652013-05-13T08:34:00.000-07:002013-05-13T08:34:09.285-07:00Covered
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This picture has nothing to do with this post, but you know ... I can't write a post without a picture.</td></tr>
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<i>L {age 6}: “Does God take
your bones or just your heart?”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>R {age 8}: “No, your
bones go into the ground, into the dirt.”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>S {age 9}: “Yes, don’t
you know, we were made from dirt.”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>L: “Eh, we were made
from dust?”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>S: Pointing to her
dark skin “Yes, you see, made from dirt!”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>L: “Caralina, were we
made from the dirt?”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Me: “Yes, that’s what
the Bible says.”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>L: “What about you,
you were made from dirt?”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Me: “Yes.”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>S: “But you’re WHITE!”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>Me: “Well, the Bible
says we were all made from the dust.”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>R: “And then God
covered you?!?”</i></div>
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I had this conversation right after baby Maria passed
away. I held in my laughter until after
I walked away, and then I couldn’t help but laugh. It was a good little humor break to a rough
day.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEMdiYPKwsY3PpJZBjt8FGtEyBHz4N7LSEwBCEftjkkwjQIEgO3V6On06ymbIbR1rYjkIBfeofwDc9jdSAauzAgSOX51ekA_fhLZwi1oDe_udELjBdl4ueBObBUd-N1UaTFWHBlr95h6c/s1600/Tony.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEMdiYPKwsY3PpJZBjt8FGtEyBHz4N7LSEwBCEftjkkwjQIEgO3V6On06ymbIbR1rYjkIBfeofwDc9jdSAauzAgSOX51ekA_fhLZwi1oDe_udELjBdl4ueBObBUd-N1UaTFWHBlr95h6c/s320/Tony.jpg" width="320" /></a>We have had three new kids come in within the past two weeks. GSF has been trying to keep an eye on little Anthony {AKA Tony} since he was about 8 months old. His two older brothers came in at that time. He is now 2 years old and it seemed like it would be best for him to move to GSF. The three brothers have loved being reunited as they have not all three been together in almost 2 years.</div>
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On Wednesday, Shakira, 20 months, and Ibra, 7 weeks were welcomed into our 'family'. GSF has also been keeping an eye on these sweet babies, for a few months. Sweet Shakira had a harder time being in a new environment for the first day. Now, she has adjusted well and loves playing with all her new friends. Little Ibra slept most of his first day, but was awake a bit more yesterday.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trying to figure out my white skin and the camera on her first day.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So much happier!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sweet little Ibra sleeping</td></tr>
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We have loved getting to know these kids and have them here. Welcome to the family, sweet babies!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328038628285848548.post-7282898200948648372013-05-07T06:29:00.000-07:002013-05-07T06:35:11.424-07:00Safe in His Arms<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maria's first day at GSF</td></tr>
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Late Friday night, baby Maria went to be with Jesus. We know she is safe in his arms, but it is hard. Please keep everyone at GSF and her family in your prayers. We appreciate the prayers you lifted up for her in the short time she lived at GSF.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo credit: <a href="http://myadventuresforhisglory.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Dayna</a></td></tr>
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Maria, we are so glad you got to be a part of our 'family' for a month. We miss you. Love you forever!</div>
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