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This morning as I checked my email I was encouraged as I read this email. This is a lady who was at the parenting seminar and I ask that you would pray for her. She’s one who doesn’t have children, isn’t married, and had never been to church before. She came to the seminar because “I felt like I should come to this.”
I read Bible(The New Testament part) everyday on my way to work by subway about 30 min, I read out, but not aloud so that I won’t disturb people around, but they seem to be interested and ask me what I’m reading…and after they know it’s the Bible they will say, why you don’t believe yourself but some one that may doesn’t exist at all? Why u are trying to believe something that is not a scientific thing… (sorry to be offensice) and I don’t know how to answer that. I believe myself actually, Mike, I really do. I don’t think that is against each other, right?(between Jesus and myself). I will keep reading and try to tell if this is my thing and thank you for being part of it!
The first day of camp went really well and we’re gearing up for day 2. I’ll try to get some pics on later in the day but am having a hard time uploading for some reason. Pray for our team to continue to work hard in unity. My experience on these short term trips is that, as fatigue sets in, the things that were “funny” before, aren’t so funny now.
My name is Maddie and I am 14 years old. I came to America 2 1/2 years ago. I used to live in Ethiopia in Africa. My father died of HIV and my mother has HIV and is dying. I have two sisters and one brother. My mom wanted us to have a better life and sent us to orphanage. I had prayed to God when I lived in our village in Ethiopia to know who He was and He answered my prayers. When my new family was ready to adopt us we were sent to the capital city of Addis Ababa. The nannies at the care center shared the Gospel of Jesus Christ with me and I became a Christian. It was the greatest gift I ever had. I then prayed for a strong Christian family. God has blessed me with parents who love Him and brothers and sisters who love God as well. I want Jesus to be the center of my life always. I am grateful to be with all my family and I pray that other kids like me - parents with HIV - will also find a Christian home. I desire to be a nurse so one day I can help my people by sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ before they die.