Take a break and wait for God to whisper

    
   Thank you! Thank you! Thank You! We have been so blessed by many of you as you have been encouraging us, praying for us, and giving financially to us. God has just shown us that we need to keep on holding on to Him – because He can do amazing things in a very short amount of time. We have almost reached commitments for 50% of our monthly support and have received over 60% of our budgeted expenses for start-up and one-time costs for when we make the move to Guatemala.


Life update:     
     Less than 4 months remain until we make our move and the calendar keeps on filling up. A trip down to North Carolina to speak at a church and visit Shauna’s uncle and aunt, a trip out to Ohio to visit with some family and friends along with talking about our vision, a camping trip, graduation celebrations, a wedding, church softball games, and a beach trip are just some of the things we will be doing in the near future. It seems that days keep filling up – but it is so important to constantly remind myself that I need time just to sit without distractions to think and talk to God. It’s so difficult when all these activities are happening along with my normal work schedule with Red Rock Landscaping and watching occasional Phillies and Cubs games. However, if I want to continue to follow God’s call and be able to sense where He is leading us I need to schedule out some space to spend time with my Leader, Guide, and amazing God. So if you could be praying for me in regard to this request I would really appreciate it.

The song lyrics from these two songs have been going through my head and I thought I would share them:

We must go live to feed the hungry; Stand beside the broken; We must go. Stepping forward keep us from just singing; Move us into action; We must go. Fill us up and send us out Lord. -God of Justice


Take a break from all the plans that you have made, and sit at home alone and wait for God to whisper. Beg Him please to open up His mouth and speak, and pray for real upon your knees until they blister.
 Shine the light on every corner of your life, until the pride and lust and lies are in the open. Then read the Word and put to test the things you've heard, until your heart and soul are stirred and rocked and broken. -Clear the Stage

‘Until my heart and soul are stirred and rocked and broken’ 

That’s when you can tell God is on the move.

We still have Guatemalan scarves, fresh coffee, chocolate covered coffee beans, and bracelets for sale if you are interested.

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Until next time
-Andi

Be Thou My Vision

    The past few day I have been thinking ahead about the challenges and new things there will be to learn as we live in Guatemala. Simple things here that I take for granted like paying the electric bill, going to get chicken at the grocery store, and getting gas for the car will all be different and new when we move. I will have to learn a different way of doing those things and it makes me anxious and scared. 
     However, last night at worship team rehearsal we were playing the song Be Thou my Vision. It's an Irish hymn and we were having fun with playing it in different ways and with different sounds along with adding a current chorus by Ascend the Hill in with it. It was then stuck in my head all day today as I was pulling weeds and digging out bushes. I think God was trying to get my attention and tell me something.

Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart; Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art. Thou my best Thought, by day or by night, Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light. 

Be Thou my Wisdom, and Thou my true Word; I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord; Thou my great Father, I Thy true son; Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one. 

Riches I heed not, nor man's empty praise, Thou mine Inheritance, now and always: Thou and Thou only, put first in my heart, High King of Heaven, my Treasure Thou art. 

Oh, God, be my everything, be my delight. Be, Jesus, my glory My soul's satisfied. My Jesus, you satisfy. 

God is my vision and my eyes. He will show me the path to take and how to overcome these challenges I run into. He is my best thought. I need to put Him first in my heart and He satisfies.

What a powerful song that God spoke through to impact me. So awesome how God works.

On another note I just bought a Spanish/English parallel Bible which I'm pretty excited about :)
  

We have also had a few questions regarding giving one-time gifts. These gifts will be used to help with one-time expenses such as plane tickets, residency fees, and housewares, and furniture for our home once we move. They will also be used to help us eventually buy a vehicle. So unless otherwise specified one-time gifts will be used to help us with whatever is priority at the present time. If you are interested in giving a one-time gift I would love to talk with you more specifically.

It was also brought to our attention that the link to give financially to help support us was working incorrectly. It has now been fixed. Here is the working link.  http://hopeforhome.org/donate.html  Make sure the letter 'd' in donate is lowercase - that was causing some of the issues.

I also wanted to remind everyone that we will be speaking at Dillsburg BIC on Sunday evening April 10th at 6:00 and a Guatemalan style meal will be included. All are welcome. We will also have fresh Guatemalan coffee, chocolate covered coffee beans, hand-made scarves from the market in Guatemala and coconut woven bracelets for sale.