We're Georgian

John and I have settled in to a beautiful home outside of Atlanta. It is a great location, centralized to my job, church, and the school of ministry. We felt at home instantly! Our church family here is amazing. We are so blessed!! Yay God! He takes such good care of us!

Update!!

So...I am a terrible blogger! Let me quickly update you on life! John and I graduated from the first year program of Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry (with honors! :) in May. We are soo glad that we had the opportunity to be out here for a year. It has been an amazing way to start our first year of marriage as well as really dig in with God!! We are so blessed!

In June we took a vacation to the north rim of the Grand Canyon. If you have never been to the Grand Canyon...GO! It is absolutely breathtaking. We spent five days there with Graham and Bert. Lots of hiking, amazing views, John and his backpacker guitar- it was just awesome.

John has spent the last month in Bethel's School of Worship. He graduates tonight. He has also gone crazy writing and recording music. We will have to get him a MySpace page or something. It's been very exciting to see him so inspired again!!

And the biggest news of yet...we move on Monday!!! We are off on another adventure in the Atlanta area. We are taking Route 66 through Tulsa and then cutting over to Georgia. Lots of fun stops planned! Stay tuned!!

Please pray for our new home and new jobs!!! We are living by faith right now!

Day 5- Prayer Cruise

This was an incredible day!
We spent 7 hours on a boat around the island of Roatan interceding with pastors and leaders from the island. God's presence was thick! I have never been on a boat for that long- I had a rough patch for awhile when I had to lay down but it wasn't for long. One of the coolest things we saw were around 20 dolphins swimming and jumping along side our boat. It was so cool! I have never seen dolphins outside of theme park show! It was really wonderful to bond with the other leaders on the island. At the end we took turns singing worship songs we both knew in english and spanish.

Day 4

One thing that was common in Roatan was losing electricity- the entire island would go out, nearly every day! This particular day it happened multiple times. Half of us went to church this morning at Calvary Chapel and the other half went out to minister to more people- to the dump and other places. I went to church and John went with the other group. We went back to the same church we preached at on Saturday night again on Sunday night. My camera died at service- I was sad! We all worshipped and danced so much! I prayed for this beautiful woman with stomach problems. She got healed and shared her testimony with the whole church and was crying! It was crazy because I didn't really know what happened because of the language barrier-but God was in charge. She was overwhelmed and so was I.

Day 3

Saturday we went out in ministry mode! We split up in two groups. John and I went to Calvary Chapel to bring them water filters, find out what other needs they had, and pray for everyone. The other group went to a clinic to pray for the sick there. We shared God's love and created relationships. One crazy thing that happened was that the pastors of Calvary, Chuck and Tia had just been to Atlanta to take Tia's mom for a surgery. While they were there they stayed with her cousin, and they met the leaders of Bethel Atlanta. Her cousin happens be good friends with the Hales ( who started Bethel Atlanta) and Lauren's dad Steve Hale met Tia and her mom! What are the chances?? Lauren and her husband Brent were with us and couldn't believe the connection! We were all like we are moving to Atlanta for that church! Isn't that crazy!

We had a couple of hours before dinner so we all went swimming of Miss Peggy's dock (she is the one with the health clinic). Then we went to a Spanish speaking church that evening to bring the message and pray for people. Scott and Tracy spoke at the church and then called some of us up to give words of knowledge. This was me and John's first time to do this in a setting like this. I had a word about someone having pain in the arch of their right foot. Sure enough there was someone there-later we prayed and all the pain left her foot! I also prayed for a woman and four of her daughters, one of who suffers from terrible headaches (probably migraines). The pain left her head that night, and I am believing that she will never have headaches again- like me!! They were so grateful and loving! It was so interesting praying for people with a language barrier. My spanish improved over the course of the week, but it had been 8 years since I last had a class!!

Lauren prayed for a sweet grandma who I think had some sort of arthritis or something in her hand. It was all crumpled in and she couldn't move it, but God is good and He healed her and she got so excited! She ran around and made us pray for everyone in her family. John and Jordan prayed for her grandson who was a Honduran version of Paul Egan (it was crazy weird). His name was Ronald and he work at a zipline place on the island. He had fallen off and platform awhile back, hurt his back, and had never fully recovered. They prayed for him and then asked him to test it out and move around. Ronald said it didn't hurt, but he needed to lift something heavy to really test it. So the guys told him to pick up Mario (one of the guys in our group). He tried, but said he still had pain in his pack. They prayed again and told him to try to pick Mario up again. He pick him up and lifted him high! He was completely shocked that he could do that! It was crazy and hilarious all at the same time. Ronald is really on fire and passionate about God. We got to see him two more times during the trip.

Overall, around 80% of the people that were prayed for claimed healing in their bodies. I had never witnessed anything like this in my life. It was amazing. And God used me. Wow.

Day 2

On Friday we really spent the day bonding with each other and worshipping. We shared testimonies from our lives, what God was telling us for this trip, and met with pastors and leaders on the island. Here are some more fun pictures!

We're back!

Well, we made it back home safely, and it was an amazing trip! God showed up. People got healed. It was good! We have lots of stories to share....this may take a few posts...

I will begin at the beginning!

We arrived on the AMAZING island of Roatan on Thursday, April 3. We stayed at the Tri-R Resort which had a campy/retreat type feel to it. There were only 14 rooms so we basically took over the hotel. They served us breakfast each morning and there was room for us to gather, meet, worship, etc. We had really great conditions compared to what other trips experienced. John and I had our own room with air conditioning (a window unit)! Now, the power went out for a period of time everyday so air conditioning didn't matter. We could only have it on while we were there...We also couldn't flush toilet paper down the toilet. That was hard to get used to at first, but eventually we got the hang of it.

We had no plans for the first day except to rest. (We flew out of Sacramento at midnight- so our schedules were a bit off.) So..to rest many of us decided we could best do it at the beach!! Caribbean beaches are my favorite! We had dinner together on the ocean with talking parrots! They whistled and laughed at us too!

I will stop there and continue day two on the next post...I promise I have ministry stories and testimonies!