The Call, part 3

“Yes, Lord, I’ll go anywhere you send us, as long as it’s not to Mexico or to Ethiopia”.  (from The Call, part 2)
Why such an aversion to those countries? Mexico I’ll explain in the succeeding paragraphs. As for Ethiopia, I thought I should include more than one country in my antipathy, so that [...]

His Authority and His Presence

His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us  leaves us no other choice.”            - John Stott

Are We All Missionaries?

I’m a dental hygienist. I clean teeth everyday: mine. I was told it’s what I’m supposed to do; I am responsible for my teeth, so I brush and floss everyday. You are a dental hygienist also. It’s your responsibility, obligation and mandate from your dentist. I know there are those who do it everyday for [...]

What If?

(written by guest blogger….my very own DH!)
What would happen if God said GO and we said NO?
God is fond of saying go. The word appears 2015 times in the bible. For a quick comparison of the impact of that number, I’ll tell you the word STAY only appears 319 times.
 
What if Abraham had said [...]

Getting the Most from a Missionary Visit

I found this article on Women’s Touch Online:  
By Paul Brannan
“Getting the most from a missionary visit begins with attitude. Remember, your church needs missionaries as much as they need you. A missionary can’t go without financial and prayer support provided by the local church, but a congregation cannot fulfill the Great Commission without [...]

The Call, part 2

(this post will make little sense if you have not read The Call, part 1 first.)
Sensible!  Logical!  Of course God was sending us to Europe.  I spoke fluent Hungarian and dear hubby was proficient in German.  Ha!  God would use those language abilities and send us to, say, somewhere like Austria where in certain villages [...]

Follow up on Tabasco

This past November, Mexico experienced one of it’s worst natural disasters (see Pray for…Tabasco post).  This is next door to Campeche, where we will call home in a few months.  Our missionary friends from the Yucatan traveled to Tabasco, partnering with students and nationals to minister healing and hope in one of the devastated areas.  Click here to [...]

The Call, part 1

“Are you the one?” asked the presbyter.   “Are you the one who didn’t want to go to Mexico at first but then went after God birthed a love in your heart for the people?”
“Yes.  Yes, that was me“, I answered.   He remembered our being at his church twelve years ago and me sharing the story.   [...]

Missions (Re)Defined?

I have been a little confused recently in regards to the word ‘missions’.   It’s volleyed back and forth in evangelicum, sometimes as a hot potato and other times as the coveted pigskin trying to make the touchdown for it’s team.
I came across an excellent post by a co-laborer from mi patria adoptada that explained my thoughts [...]

God of the Re-bound

It was a great banquet.  Now it’s over…not just the banquet, but the season.   Not just the season, but, for him, the team.  

Sunday was the end of the season soccer banquet.  This was our son’s second season playing for this team and with his teammates.  For him, a second season was a tremendous blessing already, since we [...]

Why literal translations don’t work…

I’ve been tagged…

Elaine over at redheadrev tagged me.  This means I list ten random things about myself and then tag five others.
1.   People think I am Mexican.  Never in my life did anyone once suggest or ask that until we became missionaries to Mexico 12 years ago.  Now most people assume I am and are shocked when I [...]

Pray for the people of Tabasco

Eighty percent of the state of Tabasco is estimated to be under water in what President Calderon has called one of Mexico’s worst disasters. 
Go to Pams Place for more info….

Four Men and A Missionary (Testimony on Prayer and Fasting)

“Our fight is not against people on earth but against the rulers and authorities and the powers of this world’s darkness, against the spiritual powers of evil in the heavenly world.”  Eph 6:12 NCV
To begin, back up with me to October 2002:
Four men, three of them pastors, came from Ohio to join Mike for a [...]

Wordless Wednesday- Creativity of the Poor

Missions Motivators

“The Gospel is only Good News if it gets there in time” - Carl F. Henry
“You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving.”   - Amy Carmichael
“We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first.” - Oswald J. Smith
“But before people can ask the Lord for help, they [...]

When the brain takes a hike…

So I go to an interview yesterday and my brain can’t connect with my mouth.  Or vice versa.
What is it about three ordained ministers asking me simple questions that turns my brain to jelly and my tongue to mush?  I could have answered more coherently with a shot of Novocain numbing my mouth, for all I [...]

JUSTINA’S LAST HOPE

“Which one, Lord?” I asked silently as I looked at the women seated in a semi-circle around me.   It was Friday night and there were several women attending this meeting for the first time that I did not know.   Could it be one of them for whom the Lord had given me a specific message [...]

Livin’ in Limbo Landia

I’m where I don’t belong.  To where I do belong, I can’t yet go.  Yet where I don’t belong is where I’m from, and to where I do belong I’m a stranger, a foreigner.
Welcome to my world.  Welcome to Limbo Landia- a place where there is neither yes nor no, only maybe.  A place where [...]