Heather is the Best

Heather, the missionary going to Honduras is the best. She is a genius, she helped me get set up on Pay Pal. The world has so many gadgets and gismos, next thing you know, I will be twitting. Thanks Heather. Oh, by the way, you can donate online now.

Africa, a few months ahead, I will miss my co-workers

Co-workers, Carlene and Heather. Not only am I blessed to serve the hurting in North Baton Rouge, but God has given me some lifelong friends.

Missions Class at HPC

I shared with the Missions Class on Sunday night, about what I will be doing as a missionary in Mozambique. Its awesome to spend time with young people who have given up a portion of their life to learn more about Christ and to serve Him. We have one mind, to share the love of Christ with the world.

Update on fundraising: I have raised a little over $5,000, but I still have $25,000 to go. Please, pray to see if God places it in your heart to contribute financially. If He does, you can make your donations to Healing Place Church, make sure to put "Deborah-Mozambique," in the memo. May God bless you for it. Thank you for everyone's support.

Sister's Laughing

My sister and I are complete opposites. We really don't have anything in common besides we both love Jesus and we share the same parents. Yet, no one can make me laugh like my sister can. At this rare occasion I get my sister rollin'. One day she and her husband will be in Africa with me, God willing of course.

Pictures from Equip Night last week.

These are pictures of our work at Winbourne.

My coworkers are tired of reading the same blog

So, my coworkers are tired of reading my last entry over and over; I have to get in the habit of blogging, so bare with me. Well, we survived the hurricane. Thank you for everyone who prayed. As far as fundraising for Mozambique, I still need lots of help. So far, I have raised about $3,250. Some might be wondering how could they donate every month instead of one lump some, well, I have to get back with you. I will be meeting with the missions guys at HPC this Friday.

My feeling on Hurricane Gustav

I am guessing if you know me at all, you would know that I live in the greater Baton Rouge area. There is a huge hurricane heading towards Louisiana. This will be my first experience with this. I was not here for Andrew, and I was in Dallas during Katrina and Rita, which explains why I feel uncomfortably calm. This is supposed to be worse than Katrina, but I don't know what that feels like. When I was younger, I have to start putting it in that category, because time does start getting compressed and blurry. I have really bad short term memory or long term memory. Lets put it this way, I can remember off the top of my head the Magna Carta was passed in 1215 and the Battle of Hasting took place in 1066, but I can hardly remember the occurrences of earlier days up till I left for Dallas Texas. I just remember it lasted forever.
Anyway, when I was younger, there was a hurricane coming, I believe it was a category 4, my family packed into a house, and the adults were prepared for the worse. I remember they told us if we heard sirens we would all go into these concrete ditches. Lets just say there was fear in the air. I am not going to lie and say I have never struggled with having faith, or I have never felt despair, but I did feel a conviction that it would all be o.k. The faith of a child. I woke up the next morning, and the news said it was a miracle, the category 4 storm had downsized to a tropical depression. I mentioned I had never been through a hurricane, but I almost did. Please, don't get bogged down with all the details of my story, but get the big picture. God protects his children. I pray we all have faith to believe God will be there for us.