Update

Well its about time for a MUCH needed update. I am having a WONDERFUL time and don't want to spend a lot of time on the computer. I really wanted to do better with posting this trip but I am really not getting there.

On Monday we went to Mt. Elgon. We drove FOR EVER and then we made it to the bluff. I was sitting right out on the edge. As I looked out accross the valley below I could just feel the GREATNESS of God. We saw a few animals but not a lot. We climed WAY up into some caves and we saw LOTS and LOTS of bats. They were flying all around our heads. I had never heard the sounds that bats make so that was really cool. We would shine flash lights on them and they would all wake up and I don't think that like that much :). When we were up there Debra fell into a hole. I think that kind of freeked us all out. She is ok but she hit her head kind of hard.

Yesterday I did not do much. I was so tired and not feeling well at all.

Today I don't know what is planned but I need to get off here and go find out!

I miss everyone at home!

Have a WONDERFUL CHirstmas!

Much love,
Bree

Here we are

I have just a little time to send everyone an update. We made it to Kenya after about 10 hours of delays. By the time we made it we were all very tired! We are so thankful that we made it and that we are all safe.

Today is cleaning day. I feel a little bad because everyone is out cleaning and I am sitting in here blogging! :) After the cleaning gets done we may go for lunch in town. We don't really have a lot going on today so we can just do what ever. We had also talked about going and seeing so children in a different town.

Well that is really all that is going on today. I hope to post more latter. I have lots of things to post but they are all on my computer and its seems dumb to type it all up twice!

Keep us in your prayers!

Time to leave

Well tomorrow is the BIG day. Maybe HUGE would be a better word. I am getting so excited!!! Please keep us in your prayers as we travel! It is going to be a long two days with much excitement and joy. I know that this is Gods will and I know that we are in His hand. He has a plan for our lives!

Thank you everyone for your prayers

Much love,

Bree

There is no place better to be then in the center of God's will; Unless it be in His presence

Being in the center of God’s will. What does this mean to you? Are you in the place that God wants you to be? Am I? Do I truly work to be in God’s will for my life or am I running like Jonah? Running in the opposite direction. Away from the lost souls that God is calling me to help.

This is the question I have been pounding tonight. I am sitting and wondering what God is calling me to. I leave for Kenya in 16 days. When I come home I have no plans. I know that there is work for my in dad’s office, but is this where God is calling me? If not what is He calling me to? I have NO idea what the future may hold for me. None of us do. We are clay in Gods hands. It is His job to mold us. NOT OURS!

Me? A simple lump of clay? God surly you are not calling ME to do this. God it’s too hard! Ever felt that way? Moses did. He told God that he was not good at public speaking. But look what GOD did THOUGH Moses. With God we can do ANYTHING! My favorite verse Philippians 4:13 says “I can do ALL things though Christ who strengthens me.”

Am I willing to put God first and follow HIS will? How many times am I a Jonah? Do I run toward God or away? GOD I CHOOSE TO RUN TO YOU! NO LONGER WILL I RUN AWAY! GOD I AM YOURS! USE ME! SEND ME! SHOW ME YOUR WILL IN MY LIFE!

“Unless it be in His presence” What does this mean? To be in the presence of God. To live with Him for ENTERNITY! WOW. I can’t even imagine what eternity is. God has ALWAYS been and ALWAYS will be! It’s CRAZY to think of it!

What does it mean to die for Christ? Would you be willing to sacrifice all, if that’s what following God came to? Would I? Am I? If my family was put at risk would I be willing to still CHOOSE CHRIST? Would you? If we are not willing to die for Christ HOW can we say that we are living for Him? Unless I am willing to give up EVERYTHING, family, friends, material positions, then how am I TRULY following God? Following God should be all I need. Is it? I SAY YES! God is ALL I need. The blessing should be used to bring GLORY to Him. NOT take the glory from Him!

2 in 1 weekend (This may be sad)

Wow can you believe it I am posting twice in one weekend!!! :)

This is probably going to be a sad email so if you want you may stop reading here. If, however, you are in the mood to cry with me then read right on a head.

I got a very sweet email from Heather today. I just sat in my bed and cried for a very long time. I never knew that I would miss her this much. Sometimes I feel alone at church even though I know that I'm not. I have so many AMAZING people in my life but I still really miss Heather. This was my fist communion at Cornerstone and I wished so bad that Heather could have been there. I have always had my close friend with me at communion and it was really hard not to this year. It seems so odd that we have all went our own ways. I don't know if there is really any of us that are still 100% on the same page. We used to all be close to the same spot and now we seem to be getting farther and farther apart. I know that God brings us to different places thought out our life's and its a good thing to have change but it can be VERY hard. I also know that there are NEVER ALWAYS going to be people who you are 100% on the same page with, but its still hard to see us all going in such different directions. God is good and He is leading us ALL on our journey though life. He has called each of us to a different calling and thats ok. He knows what his is doing so much better than I. "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, declares the LORD" Isaiah 55:8." For I know the plans I have for you you, Declares the LORD, Plans to prosper and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future" Jeremiah 29:11. These are such encouraging verses to me when I am feeling down! God is so good and He has a plan for us. We need to trust Him and lean on Him.

Just so you all know. I did tell you that you did not have to read the whole thing!

Well I am VERY tired to Goodnight.

SORRY

To: Courtney Boone!

So... I just want everyone to know that I am VERY sorry for not blogging in such a LONG time. But to Miss. Boone I want to send a special apology. I ask that you would PLEASE forgive me for being so behind in my blogging. I am a very POOR writer and it makes it difficult to keep up.

So how about an update. So I made it home safe from Haiti. I am missing Heather lots and lots but I will make it :) I got home and was getting settled in and the opportunity for me to go to Kenya came up. I leave Nov 18th and get home Jan 1st, which just happens to be my 18th birthday!! :) I have been getting everything that I need together for Kenya. It has been much easier then going to Haiti because now I feel like I know what I am going to need.

Tonight Court and I went to town and I picked up the last of the things I am going to be taking with me. Sometime I am hoping to get a list of things that are needed in Kenya and then I will be getting things that I will be taking down for the people down in Kenya. I am hoping to maybe get this in the next week or so. If anyone would like to help out let me know.

I just got a call from Sheila (Heathers mom) She said that she just got off the phone with Heather. Heather asked for prayer for one of the girls who is staying in the D.R. at the other IFM mission. I guess she was in a park in Jimani (the little town right across the border) and was in a moto accident. She broke a bone in her hand/wrist and has had some pain. Please keep her in your prayers her name is Stephanie. There is also prayer need for the Children's home. John, Lois, Julia, and Kris are all sick. John, Lois, and Julia have Typhoid and Kris has some sort of fever. They don't' know for sure how to spell it. They are all feeling sick and can't do a lot. Please pray for quick healing! They have two children now!! That is very exciting. They did not think they would be getting any for a year or so and in a few months they have two!! Please just keep all of them in your prayers! God still works today! I think sometimes we forget or don't let Him!

So that is all for tonight. MAYBE I will do a better job of keeping this thing up to date! We can always pray :)

Goodnight.

Haiti

We made it to Haiti. I am sitting in the courtyard of our compound writing this. Just so everyone knows my posts may be few and far between. It is really hard to get time to be online! Everyone wants to have time. This country is amazing and beautiful. I am having a great time and so is Heather. Please keep us in your prayers.

So much has happened I don't even know where to began. The weather is hot and windy. I am finding out that it is ALWAYS windy witch is a REALLY good thing because it cuts down on the heat. Sitting in the shade the temp is not bad. Its when you get on the road that it feels like you are going to melt. :)

Today we had church and we were there from 8 until almost 12. It was interesting because I could not understand ANYTHING. I just sat and read my Bible and tried not to fall asleep. We came home and took naps on the roof, and now we will be getting ready to go to church again in a little bit.

Please pray for us this week because we have a HUGE work team coming down tomorrow with about 30 people. That is a lot of people for this compound. It will be a long stressful week but lots will get done. Pray that people come to know Jesus. Each night there will be a showing of the Jesus film and then a call to salvation.

Well I need to go so good night.

Airport

We made it to the airport. We are sitting at our gate waiting for our plane to leave. Please pray for us today that God will give us strength to make it though this day. As excited as we are there is still some sadness.

Just a few more hours

I am sitting on my bed thinking that I really have much better things to be doing then updating my blog but yet here I am. Today has been HUGE! I had a super fun lunch with Nat and Mom and then it was home to work untill 3:30ish and now clean up room and pack! Heather and her mom are going to be staying here tonight so they don't have to get up so early in the morning. The plan is to leave from my house at 4 Am.

Well I need to go and finish getting ready! Thank you all for the prayers and support as we get ready to leave! It is going to be big but GOD IS BIGGER!!! It helps to know that we have the prayers of many people.

Thanks,
Bree

DONE WITH SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am OFFICIALLY DONE WITH SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PRAISE GOD!!!!!!!!!!! I really did not think I was going to get done, and on top of that my computer would not let me log in to do my work. We called my teacher and he said that I was done because it was only a pass/fail class and I had already passed!!! YAY!!!!!

Heather and I only have one more day until we leave. I can't believe how fast it has come up! Today was filled with many good byes and tears. This morning in church there was an AMAZING prayer service for us. I know that remembering this day is one of the things that is going to help me get though! Praise God!!!

Pray that we get down safe! Thanks!

Update:

As far as school goes I am done with Economics and Government :) YAY!!!! I still have to get Brit Lit done BEFORE I leave!!!! Please pray that God will give me the strength to endure and get it done! For some reason Brit Lit has been very hard for me so I find it hard to stay focused. ;)

I was thinking that I really should start getting stuff ready to leave. I need to start packing so I can start worrying about how I am going to get everything packed in ONE 50lb suitcase!!! :) Ideas anyone? I am letting Heather have my second luggage spot because she has a lot more stuff to take down then me, but still it sounds like a imposable task. :) Can’t wait to see how it goes.

As the time gets closer and closer I am starting to feel worried! I know that this is what God is calling me to but it is looking very big! I know He is going to be with me ever hour of every day! THANK YOU JESUS!!!!

Looking back over the past months and seeing God work all of this out has been so AMAZING! I know that God is going to work everything out when I am in Haiti too! I just need to remind myself of that every day.

Please continue to pray for Heather and I as well as for our families!

Have a GREAT day,
Bree

WOW!

When I first found out that I was going down to Haiti I thought it was FOREVER away! Well I am quickly finding out that it is just around to corner. We leave in ONLY 19 days!! I can't believe that it is this close! Please pray for Heather and me. We are very excited but there are also things that sound scary. Also keep our families in your prayers. Just today mom was telling me that she was starting to get sad. I thought I was going to start crying. Please pray that we will have strength to face each day with a good attitude. Pray that we will be able to share Jesus with the people we meet. Please pray that I will be able to quickly learn the language and that Heather and I will both be healthy physically, spiritually and emotionally. Something else to keep in your prayers is that I will get done with school BEFORE we leave!!!!

Mom printed off our itinerary just a few minutes ago. We leave July 28, 2009 at 7:40 AM from Columbus International Airport. We will be arriving in Port Au Prince at 3:45 PM. We have one layover in Miami! Please pray for safe flights!



Heather and I

School

Today I have been working on school! I VERY ready to be done! My goal is to be done by the time we leave for Haiti. I have to do two lessons each day to get done on time and so far I have been getting that much or more done each day. In Brit Lit I am working on Hamlet and I don't understand it at all. I would very much appreciate the prayers! I am almost done with Economics and hope to be done with it sometime next week. In government I am working on a personal service project and I am hoping to do it on Unbridled Hope Youth Ranch. So... didn't she already have a graduation party...? Well yes I did but I am graduating a year early and to be able to do that I had to take Brit Lit, Economics, and Government UGGG!!! :( O well I am getting close to being done and it will be AMAZING to be done with high school FOR EVER!!!!!!!!! Here are some of my senior Pictures.

I love you Cort and Heather!! <3>

School Times

This past year I went to school at CTC. Here are some pictures of my class! I miss them all very much and I hope I get to see them again!

Hello

Hello all,

This is my very first post. I am just learning how to blog. If you have any advice let me know!
This blog is to keep my family and friends up to date when I am in Haiti with Heather. I hope to post what we do each day! I guess we will just have to wait and see if that happens! ;) I would very much appreciate everyone’s prayers as we prepare to leave and while we are gone!