Thursday, May 29, 2008
Coming Home
Ten more days until i come home! i don´t even really know what to say because i´m just so mixed up right now about coming home. i´m bursting with excitement and is like almost all i think about. i just think about seeing everyone and hanging out and what i´m gonna do and all this stuff. then i think about this being over and then i´m thinking, oh no what am i gonna do... i´ve built this life and it will just all be torn down in a single second. the only thing i´ve built that going to stay with me is my realtionship with God and it is really the single thing i have to cling on. i wrote a poem about it this morning. It´s just hard stuff to let go of. Well alot of the discomforts are not, but letting go of your life isn´t easy at all. Yet that is what God has called me to do. All of us.´´loose your life and you will find it´´. i´m starting to see what that means a little. i have never thought that would include losing the ¨missionary life´´ but it does. Also, the world i have left at home that has gone on without me.... i can´t hold on to it like it´s my world anymore because its not. everything i have built will be torn down. i was asking God this morning ´´what is it even worth´´. and i have come to learn that the real home i have is in the arms of my father. it is the place i can take every where, the only place there is no lonliness, and the only place i am really me. as i let him hold me and press my ear to his chest, his heart says ´´You are worth it to me´´. That´s what this time has been all about. Not about ´´this world of mine´´ or ´´that world of ours´´ but about home, my real home. Dear God, take my worlds apart.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Where in the World is Anna Jacobs?
ANTIGUA, GUATEMALA! -maybe the coolest place I have been in the world
Hola Amigos!
I´m sorry that I have,once again, taken way too long to write annother blog. Let me tell you, just because I haven´t writen anything doesn´t mean that God has not been doing awesome stuff. I will recount to you some of the highlights.
As you probably know, I spent April in Talamanca, Costa Rica for the first phase of my Outreach. Sadly, I did not even have internet access there so I was disconnected from the rest of the world for a while (it was pretty fun actually!). After the NIKO camp in the town Bamboo we stayed there annother week and did all sorts of ministeries from painting and ministering in an old folks home, to woking in the red cross and in a school, to running church services. The indiginous (sp?) people of bamboo are the Bre-Bre and it was awsome to share a little bit in their traditions and way of life at an anual Bre-bre celebration where we also had that oppertunity to evangalize. I can´t even start to describe how bautiful Bamboo is, but it is near the most beautiful place I have ever been; the land is green and lushious, having many rivers, and the nature is so rich. I really fell in love with that place.
The next week we went to the nearby town of Margarita. We stayed in a small church that I was so privlaged to see God do some awesome tranformaition in durring the time we were there. When we arrived, I could see the pastor and his wife were weary from the persecution they had been going through since their 4 years ministering there. They were also discouraged that they were the only ones in thier church with a passionate heart for their community which was in an immence spiritual darkness. At first my team and I were under the weight of this spiritual darkness, but once we realized this and prayed against this spirit being in us and the church, God lifted the wieght and we started to see some amazing breakthoughs. We were ministering in the church every night and durring the day I helped to build a house for a single mother and her five children. It was such a cool church to minister in because the congragation was mainly teenage girls and children. Dispite it being the most difficult and , at times, physically painful(especially being eaten by bugs) living situation, it was a place that I was so privlaged to be apart of God´s moving durrasticly in the spiritual relm. Every day, the expression on the pastor´s face was more joyful and at the end of the week he was brought to tears while he told us that he had been asking God for over a year that he woudl bring a group of young people like us to come minister and serve there. That is just one aspect of the many ways God used us to answer his prayers in our time there.
The next week, we stayed in the town Manzanillo in annother small church that was right across the street from... *drum roll*.... the gorgeous.... CARRIBIAN BEACH! Yes, I felt spoiled. So even though the week was still very busy with doing building projects, prayer walks, and running church services every night, I still fould plenty of space in beteen to enjoy every minute possible on the beach (it was awesome for my quiet times!).
Overall, my outreach in Talamanca was the most physically, emotionally, and spirtually stretching experience of my life. I learned to aprecaite every single thing God has given me so much more. Honestly, throughout the time I was constently in a personal spiritual balttle. I was attacked phisically the entire time, starting with having to go to to hospital on the drive there. I had all sorty of other ellements durring the time that me and my prayer buddies were just constantly having to fight against. And emotionally, well, that was the harder battle. Truely , thank you so much for praying for me even when you haven´t heard what was up with me because I know I wouldn´t have made it through without your prayers. God really taught me so much through this and i have been able to grow incredibly. He showed me more of what it really mean for me to find ALL my strength in him.
Now i quote myself from my first week in Guatemala outreach, "The Costa Rica outrach was warm-up... THIS is the real deal!". An of course it has ALL been the "real deal", but i can harldly wait untill i have time to write my next blog and tell you all that God has been doing in my second phase of outreach!
Hasta la vista, Baby
Hola Amigos!
I´m sorry that I have,once again, taken way too long to write annother blog. Let me tell you, just because I haven´t writen anything doesn´t mean that God has not been doing awesome stuff. I will recount to you some of the highlights.
As you probably know, I spent April in Talamanca, Costa Rica for the first phase of my Outreach. Sadly, I did not even have internet access there so I was disconnected from the rest of the world for a while (it was pretty fun actually!). After the NIKO camp in the town Bamboo we stayed there annother week and did all sorts of ministeries from painting and ministering in an old folks home, to woking in the red cross and in a school, to running church services. The indiginous (sp?) people of bamboo are the Bre-Bre and it was awsome to share a little bit in their traditions and way of life at an anual Bre-bre celebration where we also had that oppertunity to evangalize. I can´t even start to describe how bautiful Bamboo is, but it is near the most beautiful place I have ever been; the land is green and lushious, having many rivers, and the nature is so rich. I really fell in love with that place.
The next week we went to the nearby town of Margarita. We stayed in a small church that I was so privlaged to see God do some awesome tranformaition in durring the time we were there. When we arrived, I could see the pastor and his wife were weary from the persecution they had been going through since their 4 years ministering there. They were also discouraged that they were the only ones in thier church with a passionate heart for their community which was in an immence spiritual darkness. At first my team and I were under the weight of this spiritual darkness, but once we realized this and prayed against this spirit being in us and the church, God lifted the wieght and we started to see some amazing breakthoughs. We were ministering in the church every night and durring the day I helped to build a house for a single mother and her five children. It was such a cool church to minister in because the congragation was mainly teenage girls and children. Dispite it being the most difficult and , at times, physically painful(especially being eaten by bugs) living situation, it was a place that I was so privlaged to be apart of God´s moving durrasticly in the spiritual relm. Every day, the expression on the pastor´s face was more joyful and at the end of the week he was brought to tears while he told us that he had been asking God for over a year that he woudl bring a group of young people like us to come minister and serve there. That is just one aspect of the many ways God used us to answer his prayers in our time there.
The next week, we stayed in the town Manzanillo in annother small church that was right across the street from... *drum roll*.... the gorgeous.... CARRIBIAN BEACH! Yes, I felt spoiled. So even though the week was still very busy with doing building projects, prayer walks, and running church services every night, I still fould plenty of space in beteen to enjoy every minute possible on the beach (it was awesome for my quiet times!).
Overall, my outreach in Talamanca was the most physically, emotionally, and spirtually stretching experience of my life. I learned to aprecaite every single thing God has given me so much more. Honestly, throughout the time I was constently in a personal spiritual balttle. I was attacked phisically the entire time, starting with having to go to to hospital on the drive there. I had all sorty of other ellements durring the time that me and my prayer buddies were just constantly having to fight against. And emotionally, well, that was the harder battle. Truely , thank you so much for praying for me even when you haven´t heard what was up with me because I know I wouldn´t have made it through without your prayers. God really taught me so much through this and i have been able to grow incredibly. He showed me more of what it really mean for me to find ALL my strength in him.
Now i quote myself from my first week in Guatemala outreach, "The Costa Rica outrach was warm-up... THIS is the real deal!". An of course it has ALL been the "real deal", but i can harldly wait untill i have time to write my next blog and tell you all that God has been doing in my second phase of outreach!
Hasta la vista, Baby
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