Update on Mission Trip

Many of you have been concerned about our mission trip to Kenya in April. We received an email about a week ago confirming that we would probably not be going. John and I were disappointed, but we know that you can't deal God a bad hand. We will be traveling to Honduras in Central America. Our team is one of the smallest mission teams and thru our meetings we have gotten close. We really are excited to be able to stay and work together as a team in Honduras. Here is the story on how God brought our new trip to us from Scott (our leader).

First of all, I want to thank you for your patience as we have waiting on the Lord for direction. We have worked extensively to find what closed doors in Kenya mean to us as a team. Eric, Tracy, Sara and I have met multiple times. Some open doors have come, but we have waited to find out what HE is doing. We did not want to just find a replacement without really searching His heart.

In the process, I met with a few of you to gauge what you were feeling. In my meeting with Denny Prins, I asked him about Honduras, a country which he had told me about many times. He spoke of the desperation that a group of pastors has for revival, how they are traveling to different areas, anointing with oil and asking for God to send revival. I kept what he said in my heart. Later that day, I met with Mary Lou (our lead intercessor for our team). She told me that the day of our team meeting (lunch at the Pewitts), when we were talking about Kenya, she heard the Lord say, "Honduras." She did not say anything, as she had no idea what it meant.

On Friday, the day when I knew we would have an answer, the confirmations came. A man for whom Pastor Bill had written a book endorsement randomly stopped by the church. Since Pastor Bill is out of town, and does not usually meet with "drop ins," I spoke with him and told him I would pass on his "thank you" to Pastor Bill. He looked at me and said, "There is revival in your eyes." I asked if he would like to hear Dutch Sheets speak, and we both walked towards the sanctuary. He stopped me in the lobby and said, "I see many dark faces in your eyes. They are not Africans. They are central or south Americans. What is going on with you?" I briefly told him the story of Kenya and our asking God what He wants us to do with our team. He told me that Honduras was a Macedonian call. (Paul was on his way to Asia, but the Lord "rerouted" him to Macedonia, see Acts 16).

We are so honored that the Lord would confirm to us what He is doing. He is so good and He showed up RIGHT when we needed him (even sent a stranger to confirm). Joaquin also had a dream for Sara a few weeks ago, that pointed her towards Latin America. I believe in each and every one of you and believe that you were chosen to go with us on this team. I believe that we were put together for a reason. I also believe that Honduras is not just a place that we have chosen instead of Kenya, but it is the perfect will of God that we go at this time.

We are very excited to start praying into this new adventure, and we will let you know when John and I know more. John and I still have a strong desire to visit Kenya/Heroes of the Nation and are planning on traveling their in the future. Our team will still be sending financial support through a fundraiser we are having this month.

Blessings and love
Alyson and John

Jesus is the healer!

So I was out on a treasure hunt on Thursday (that's where we pray and listen for the Holy Spirit to give us clues about who He wants us to go show His love to; and then we go out and find them!). We were looking for a guy in a red coat in sports authority. The Holy Spirit had told me that he would have a sports injury in His right shoulder, and He told one of my teammates that he had left knee trouble. As it turns out, we met Ed. Ed had just recently had surgery on his left knee, and had in the previous week suffered an injury to his right shoulder from overuse (swimming and weight lifting).

Ed is an awesome guy. He works in the concrete industry and he was so friendly. We asked him if we could pray for him, and he said, "Sure!" We prayed for Jesus to come heal him, and we commanded the pain to leave his body. He said his shoulder felt fine at the moment, but he wouldn't know for sure until his workout the next morning. So I gave him my phone number and asked him to call me to let me know how he's doing.

He called me yesterday to let me know that he swam a mile with no pain whatsoever and is completely healed! Come on, JESUS!! Jesus just visited Sports Authority and felt like healing up hurt!


Also, we saw a 75 year old woman completely healed of arthritis 2 weeks ago. She used to be a dancer, but she hasn't been able to from the pain. So we asked Jesus to heal her...and He DID! She checked it out, and the pain instantly left her body! Jesus is just so good, He makes me wanna jump...so I think I will ;)

The Shack

I was at a writing conference this week and hear about a book called The Shack. I bought it on Tuesday night and am about to finish it! I highly recommend it to everyone!! It is a Christian narrative story about a guy making sense of how and why God lets bad things happen in the world. It's awesome! Go read it!