Don't Stop Belizing

We finally arrived in Belize. Yeah Pappa!

Our time in Mexico was a lot of fun. I learned a lot about myself. Living in a community of people brings out the best and worst of me. Get lower and go slower, is what I keep on hearing from my days at harvest school.

We arrived in Corozal, Belize on wednesday the 19th. We found an amazing rv park right next to the beach. It was closed due to maintenance issues but we found favor with the owner and he gave us a discount.

During our 4 day in corozal we went to the downtown to minister to the people who were staying there. We prayed for them, loved them, bought them some food and spent time with them. One gentlemen, Godfrey, was not doing well when we first met him. He was drunk and on drugs. A few of my teammates, Taylor, Brent and Melissa ministered to him the first day. The group basically adopted this man. He took us to the hospital to minister and to a village they call "Paradise" to go house to house loving on people, praying for them, and telling them about Jesus. The Holy Spirit put it on all of our hearts to take this man with us as we travel through Belize. We all felt compelled by love to take him and love on him more and get him out of an ugly enviroment for a time. He has been a great blessing for us all.

Ben, Rowan, Brent, & Breck baptising Godfrey in the Carribean Ocean

Ben asking Kareem if he knew Jesus and had been baptised. He did not know Jesus.

Kareem being baptised

We left Corozal and went about 4 hours south to Dangriga, Belize another coastal town. Come on God!! Love the beach! Godfrey, during our travel, told us he wanted to be baptized. We baptized him and another man, Kareem, who was trying to sell us things, in the Carribean Ocean. I love the spontaneity of God.

Today, the 24th, we went to get permission from the mayor to have an evangelistic event in the downtown. We are also going to do to some street evangelism.

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ONE OF MY FIRST LOVES

It's been a few years since I went to India. My trip to India impacted me greatly. I believe that's when I gave my heart to missions. It wasn't my first missionary trip, Cuba was, but I saw how they needed Jesus. When we went to the trash dump in Hyderbad my heart broke in so many ways.

My time in Mexico City brought me back to some of these feelings. We went to minister in two different trash dumps. These trash dumps were a lot dirtier than the one in Hyderabad but the people were just as beautiful in them.

We were going around the dumps and loving people and inviting them to a gathering where we were going to preach about Jesus, give testimonies, feeding them and giving clothes out. In one, we all stopped at this one house and prayed for a mother and her deaf daughter. While we were praying, I was reminded by the Holy Spirit of how when I went to India He had led us right to a little church structure as we drove into the dump. I felt like He was telling me that this woman and her family is a similar divine appointment and will be a contact for our hosts to have when they continue to come back. When I told them what the Holy Spirit had told me and what happened in India they were happy and greatly encouraged.

We prayed for the girl for sometime but did not see in the natural a healing but totally believing that God is still doing a good work in her. During these times when I dont see in the natural what I know God does, which is to heal, I'm reminded by Him that the most important thing is that we love. We loved that mother and her daughter and you could see the difference in their countenances.

It's really that simple. We need to love more! I love being around Iris missionaries because they believe, dream, and love big. I love the people of Mexico and the one's God has put in front of us to stop for. It's like God brought me back to my first love. I am very blessed to have a Pappa that love me so much and allows me to co-labor with Him to show what love looks like. In my wildest dreams, I would have never believed that I would be on an Acts missionary journey.

Our team will be entering Belize on saturday. The journey continues....

Fuego Mexico

Loving the Mixteco People

While we were with Andy and Karyn Pricer and their two children Hunter and Julia from Fire Ministries in the Guadalajara area, our team was able to go with them to a part of town that only Mixteco people live.They all live on one street. It was awesome visiting another indigenous people group. We went door to door just meeting the people, handing out CD's with the Bible and songs in their language on them and feeding them some pan (bread). We prayed for the sick. One lady that the team prayed for was paralized on one side of her face and her arm and now has some feeling in both and we are believing that Jesus will continue to heal her. We shared the gospel with many and loved on the Mixteco people of that area.

Revival in Cumuatillo

Cowboy herding goats right where we stayed the night

Christian Jung leading worship in spanish

Many people came forward for prayer to be heale by Jesus

Pastor Candy and I

We traveled a few hours south of Guadalajara towards Mexico City with our new friends, Andy & Karyn Pricer and children, to  where another couple, Terry and Karen David, from Fire Ministries are missionaries. We had an open air meeting in the street near a church that an awesome young man named, "Candy" is the pastor.  Ben shared what God had laid on his heart. Jesse gave his testimony. At least five people came forward to receive Christ. Then we asked people to come forward to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit. I prayed with two who received their prayer language. The streets were filled with revival as the Spirit of God fell upon everyone. Many spoke in new tongues. There were words of knowledge about people who were suffering with pain in different parts of their bodies. Those people also came forward to receive healing. The streets rejoiced at the testimonies of these healings from the mouths of their own people. Our team continues to carry revival fire through Latin America