Cheque Leque

We are having such a wonderful time! It has been so fun seeing Jon and Emily and getting to see how incredible they are with the people of Mogote. The Lord is doing huge things in this ministry, in Honduras, and in our hearts.
As a team, we have laughed, prayed, cried, built a house, loved on kids, made a lot of crafts in kindergarten, fed a village, sorted clothing to give, and seen Jesus in many many ways. We are blessed to be here and are so exctied for the next few days! Thanks for praying... You would be very impressed with this team team, I definitely am.

Honduras here we come!

January 11-18 I will be leading a team of 8 from the "Casual Twenties" community at Asbury to go see/help Jon and Emily Odom with Hope for Honduras Ministries.

We will be building a house, teaching in the school, leading a women's class, helping with the food and clothes program around the village and doing some prayer walks around the communities.

The team members are: Robert Neely, Emily Sharp, Rustin Heflin, Cavett Binion, Lyndsey Campbell, Krissa Cummins, Melissa Martin, and myself.

Please be in prayer that we will grow closer as a team, give encouragement to the Odoms and the Joneses (other missionaries at Hope for Honduras), and be a light to all around us. Thanks for your prayers and support!

Click on "Jon & Emily Odom" on the side of my blog to read more about what God is doing through them in Honduras.

Asante Sana!

"Thank you very much"

Thank you for all your prayers, concerns, and encouragement throughout this entire trip. Here are some more fun highlights of my time here in Kenya...

The Kindergarten Class

The Second Graders

Emily and I ran in a "Fun Run" (4K) and watched all the incredible Kenyan marathoners, including the Olympic Gold medalists run their race. (FYI: We did not run in our skirts... haha)

We showed the movie, "Cars" on a projector and the children were in awe and thought we were magic because we made "talking cars show up on the wall." My favorite quote of the night was, Brian Chibet saying, "Auntie Kori, that movie was saweeet!" (Not typical lingo from a Kenyan) I laughed for awhile about that one!

Stefany, Mary, Sharon, and Tabitha getting ready to perform a song at church. Adorable. :)

There are many more stories and pictures of my trip, and when I get home I plan to post an album. But, for now you can look on Emily's blog at and another mini missionaries blog where there are excellent pictures and videos. Their blogs are listed on the side of my blog. 

See you soon!

Flowers of Grace

There are many flower stands along the roads of Kenya and the flowers are more than beautiful. So, last weekend Emily and I stopped to buy some for a friend’s birthday. We were amazed at the beauty and happy that we had money left over after we had bought such a big bundle.

As we were walking back to the car I noticed a girl around my age who was sitting quietly and seemed as though she was weary and tired. I felt like the Lord was telling me to hand her the money I had left over and talk to her about Him, but I disobediently kept on my journey and went on my own way. Needless to say, I beat myself up for the decision I had made the whole car ride home…

Later on this week I was doing the Asbury Journal and was answering the question, “Where has Satan attempted to ‘stop’ you recently?” based on 1 Thess. 2:18, when Paul, Silas, and Timothy are trying to get to the Thessalonians so they can speak with them and encourage them, but “Satan stopped (them).”

As I was thinking back on my weeks here I immediately thought of the precious girl at the flower stand and could not get her off of my heart. So, I decided to confess my disobedience to Emily and told her what had happened, when Emily realized which girl I was talking about, she too confessed that she had felt like the Lord was telling her to talk to the girl as well.

Once we realized how disobedient we were and how we had given into the enemy, we knew we had to try to go back to the same flower stand and find the girl.

Fortunately, we were able to get to the stand this afternoon. But to our dismay she was not there when we arrived. So, we asked around and her co-worker, Edward, informed us that she was just on her lunch break and would return very soon.

As, we were waiting for her to return we decided to look for some flowers and asked Edward what the girl’s name was… And, of course, her name was Grace…

Grace returned to the flower stand and we were able to talk to her. We also were able to give her an envelope (that she opened after we left) with some money that she greatly needed. 

Although we went to bless them, we were by far, NOT the ones that were doing the blessing. We left the flower shop with bundles and bundles of flowers that were given to us without them even knowing why were we there.

In the midst of our disobedience, the Lord “Flowered us with Grace” in so many ways.

So, how has Satan attempted to "stop" you lately? Ask the Lord to reveal it and then let the Lord shower (or flower) you with His grace…

School Time!

Every day I wake up, go to devotions with all of the staff members of Rafiki, and then head off to school! I am helping in the Kindergarten and 2nd Grade classes. In each class I work one-on-one with the children who are a little bit behind. We work on reading, hand-writing, and math. It has been such a blast and such a privilege to work with these precious children.

My favorite student is Onesmus. He is in the kindergarten and struggles with reading, but we are working on it! Here are 2 pictures to show how precious he is...

 

Games Week was a blast!

So, all week I was the escort for the 2nd graders for "Games Week." As I said earlier it is very similar to VBS. We have sports, arts & crafts, enrichment, and music. The children love it when it is "Games Week" and my 14 children were a blast to be around. Here are some pictures of the activities throughout the week! Thanks for reading :)

"Frez-bee?"

I am loving these children! They are such a joy to be around and have truly been saved from darkness. The word is being engraved into their hearts and they are learning so much from the teachers and their given mamas.

This week is "game week" (which is very similar to VBS) I have the second graders who are so precious and very needy of attention and love. So i give them plenty of it!

Today I got to go on a "play date" with 4 onery, funny, preciou

s boys! On our play date I taught them how to play frisbee... But, first I had to teach them what a "frez-bee" was :) They learned very quickly and had an absolute blast! Here is a macho picture of them showing me how strong they are...

Their names are Aaron, Onesmus, Moses, and Amos

and below is a picture of us resting.

Thank you all for your prayers, encouragement, and support. Please pray that the Lord will provide more funds for this ministry, "Rafiki Foundation"- the electricity has doubled in price and is causing some stress on the financial side of things. And, continue to pray that these little precious ones will grow up in the Lord and become great leaders in their country. 

Love to all of you!