Last Meeting

Last meeting before the trip!!!!

Ireland T-1 DAY!!!

Here are a few pictures leading up to the trip of our drama practices and prayer time with our student team! My heart is full and excited to serve with these wonderful students!!!

Ps 78:4

We will not hide from their descendants; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, His power, and the wonders He has done.

Wonderful Snack provided by Ms Allison!

One of the most thoughtful leaders ever!!

Lion and the Lamb-Jesus (Austin) portrays the sermon on the mountain, with the disciples. 

Awesome time of prayer as a team!
Lead by Jey and the students.

Quiet hearts. <3 td="">

Jesus waiting as we fill our hearts with everything
but Himself.

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Ireland Update 37 Days!!!

 37 Days to go!!! CORK I CAN HARDLY WAIT!!!! 

Luke 9:23 

"And he said to all. "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily, and follow me."

    God is so good! I can hardly believe that we are this close once again, it has nearly been a year since I was walking the streets of Ireland!! We had a team meeting this Sunday and I'm so blessed by our team leadership as well as our students! Many have an obvious heart for Christ and a passion for the gospel! 

Chip Riggs gave a challenge that as we share the gospel, we do not merely approach someone and give them our testimony, but be inquisitive, find out who THEY ARE and about them.  We come from an over confident culture, lets take the humility of Jesus and learn the stories of others, THEN share with them the greatest story!

"Its better to be interested, than interesting" :)

"Go with as little self as possible, so Christ can fill us....."

"Be a Student...Be a Leaner..."

    We are going as brothers and sisters from GA to partner with our Christian family in Cork, and I cannot explain the Love in my heart for the church there.  If you could walk with me in Ireland, and feel the spiritual needs of the people, you would see in their eyes that they desperately NEED the hope of Jesus.  To know they are unconditionally loved and no matter the weather, the hardships finically, no matter how much you partied last weekend, Jesus loves you, He died for you, He desires to Redeem you! Isaiah 43  God is doing great things through the faithfulness of the church in Cork, planting seeds, and I cannot wait to get in the field of souls with them once more!!

    Our drama team is working hard and I'm so blessed by their joy and attitude to serve. We work hard and laugh...A LOT!!!  I'm grateful for the connection drama brings, its a story that someone can choose to stop, watch, and a tool to relate to others. We all have a story and drama brings a common denominator for many of our stories. Our hope is to point out the GREATEST similarity in all of us, our need for a Savior! 

Here is one of the dramas they will be sharing on the street: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_NDp_Ycly8

Please continue to pray for us:

•  Preparation"the will to go is important but the will to prepare is vital!"Our desire is to prepare well!
• Hearts' of those we will meet, that God would soften and grow questions about Himself in their heart
• Donnybrook- the wonderful church there we work with
• Team support-some students are still short and we are praying God's provision for them

Getting excited!!! God has great things in store! Jer 29:11

Feet

As I kid I always hated feet, my Dad would joke and ask me to rub his feet when we were watching TV, so I'd humor him by getting the bathroom cleaning gloves.  Then we just laughed.  Years later I still don't love feet, but they have become beautiful in a way.  Link is just starting to pull up on things and he has the sweetest little feet..they are so soft and they don't stink yet, why? Because we carry him everywhere, there is nothing to dirty them, nothing to make them rough or calloused.  As an adult you hear people say "well walk where they have walked," "walk a day in their shoes," or others say,"Don't Take Your Shoes Off!"  There is innocence when we are born and our feet our precious and soft, we are carried everywhere, and we begin to stand on our own, but somewhere along the way we start to walk ourselves. We even run, our innocent feet get sweaty, calloused, and dirty; depending on the state of our feet we become offensive to others, and others become offensive to us.  We say "don't take your shoes off" as if to say, I don't want to experience/smell all that you have walked through.  But Jesus did the opposite he kelt down took off the shoes of his disciples, he washed the dirt from their feet, the marks of the imperfection of their walk, our walk.  Once again their feet were clean, just like a child.  Walking has made me think lately putting away a pair of shoes I had worn in Jordan, in Ireland, in Uruguay...thinking of the "Would you Walk?" event coming up for Hope to Africa....letting my mind wander to "Race to Restore" this fall for Sex Trafficking Awareness.  All of us walk different places, but we are all walking daily.....but the question raises what do we walk for? Are we walking to things that are destructive...exciting...empowering.... Its different for all of us!  Are we willing to pause and wash each others feet as if to say, your dirt feet are worth washing because you are worth knowing.  Are we, am I willing to walk where someone else walked, to take a moment away from my own pursuits to walk where someone else has?  Jesus is the ultimate example, He walked everywhere with those He discipled, He walked in love, He walked in submission to His Father, then He stopped washed our feet, and sacrificially walked to Calvary.  Makes feet beautiful, what a story a pair of shoes, feet can tell. 
Romans 10:15....reason to walk

HEY Im here in Jordan writing my second ever blog, I need to work on my efficiency on this thing. It has been such an awesome trip so far everyone here is so sweet and it's a beautiful place! We have been getting into the groove of hanging out with the kids and after a few crazy days today was awesome!! The kids were so laid back and fun......and then du du DUUU we saw Roman ruins! Brittany and I were running through old Roman streets where wheel marks have been left! This is going to be really short because everyone is sleepy and I don't want to be the only one in here :) I'll write something more interesting tomorrow. For tonight I must say "Thank you Father for the incredible sunset over the mountains tonight and the precious people I have met here! YOUR love is extravagant!"

One I won't forget

Dear Friends and Family,

  I hope you are all doing well. I know lately there are so many trials that are being faced and that God is working in a very individual ways in everyone's lives.  You are all in my prayers and I thank God for each of you.  As everyone knows in July a few things were shaken in my family. As life came back into a normal swing I really began searching my own heart to see where my priorities were.  I began asking God how He could use me rather than just to see how I could fix things I saw as problems.  I surrendered my heart and said would go wherever He wanted me.  The funny thing about God is that He calls when you least expect it!  I received a call about an opportunity in 3 weeks!  I told God if He provided a way to work with my teachers to be absent I would go, to be honest I wasn't worried because I thought they would say "no".  They all said "yes"!  So, God willing I will be traveling to Amman, Jordan Sept. 19 staying 9 days until the 28th.   There will be four of us girls providing childcare for 15 missionary children so their parents can attend the missionary conference as a couple for the first time.  Most of the missionaries are from South Africa and serve all over the middle east starting clinics for the people who don't have access to health care, and allow the door of physical needs as a pathway to reach their spiritual needs.  Many of the areas the missionary families live in are hostile, very basic village lifestyle areas (outside showers, mud huts, etc) so the opportunity to get away for a week with other Christians is a great encouragement to them. My hope and prayer is that they will leave refreshed and spiritually renewed from the fellowship, of the missions conference planning.

 I'm asking greatly for your prayers with this trip, that me and the other girls will be able to bless and serve those who have given their lives to serve Christ.  Please pray for organization as this trip falls into place, because it is happening very fast!  Financial needs are always present in any mission project, so please contact me (there is information below) if you feel called to be apart in that way;  but I would love to have you on my prayer team more than anything else.

If we have any internet access while we are there I will try to update this site.  Again I hope you all are doing well.  Please let me know of any prayer need in your own life, our God is a faithful God!

In Him,

Tori