facebook post, reposted

Recently you all have seen lots of posts from me about needing prayers. We still do. Prayers are an important part of our ministry here. Prayers of protection from the firey darts of the devil. Protection for our team as we get emotionally exhuasted and bring it home to our family. Many times our families deal with moms who cannot just focus on things at home.




God has been moving. We have been doing as it says in Jeremiah "call unto me and I will answer thee and show thee great and mighty things thou knowest not." As we have done this, fellow Christians have complained, misunderstood and caused heartache. But we know that God is pruning our team for the ministry ahead. The ministry that God is showing us is one that will be difficult, not for the faint of heart. As is says in Isaiah 40:31 "But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint." It is the strength of the Almighty King of Kings that has been holding us through.



Our team at Morning Light has had a burden for quite sometime. One of our earlier moms, I helped her escape to the train station. I stood behind the alley of her house as she dropped down bags from the second floor of her boyfriend's house. As she got in the van, I knew quite clearly what happened. "He hit you didn't he?" she wanted to cry, but she had 3 kids with her, she just looked at me with teary eyes and said "I never thought he would do that." She made it to the train station and went back for a time with her parents. I hope to hear from her again, that she is safe and thriving.



This momma made us think and research. In our county, there is no home for single moms. Sure, there are shelters for women leaving domestic violence, places for unwed mothers who want to give their baby up for adoption, but there are only 3 places in all of Taiwan that house single moms and their children. We have felt more and more that God is calling us on this path. This is a scary path because we know no one close by who has done this, and we know that our moms can be emotionally draining, yet we know that God has brought moms to us for the sole purpose of drawing them closer to Him.



In the past few weeks, we have received phone calls on our hotline from moms in their 30's. They are pregnant, escaping an abusive boyfriend who doesn't want her to have the baby, "just have ANOTHER abortion" is the answer. There are women in crisis who have great jobs, those who don't, those who are married but poor, those who are disabled and afraid their child will be too. Crisis, comes in many shapes and sizes, and comes to those in all walks of life. Our recent moms have said they want to raise their baby on their own. YES!!! that is awesome. Most think that Morning Light is soley for adoption, but that is not the case. We are an alternative to abortion. That is raising the child on your own or adoption, but an alternative.



We are in the process of looking for two houses to rent. This in itself is stepping out in faith as we don't have the money and don't have the resources lined up, but we have moms who would move in in a minute! One house would be our home for moms with children. We have plans and will have requirements and classes. The other home would be a licensed 24hour daycare for needy families. How can moms or very needy families raise their children if they can't work? how can they feed their babies if they can't work because they need to watch their baby? many of our moms have been "orphaned" you can say by their families. Single moms still have this stigma in Taiwan, though ones who are single because of divorce, they don't have the "look" as bad as one who was not married.



We still do help with adoptions by referring them through a great Christian organization. But the moms who don't want to adopt, there has been no help for them at all to get on their feet. This is what we plan to do. Of course we know that Satan has not been happy with this plan as he wants nothing less than these moms to either abort their baby or find ways to get them down and discouraged.



So, this is what is happening on the ministry side for us. Tiring? yes! Scary? yes! needed? YES! God knows and is preparing. Please pray for us as we work on this. We hope to have a blog set up so you can see what is going on, ways to help. We are going to start teaching moms some crafts and having an online store to sell them so people all over can support the moms. They will be learning a skill.



We will need financial help. I hate to say that, but we all know it is true. We will need ways to help these moms. Please keep us and this ministry in your prayers. Look for other notes on how you can help!



Thanks!



Deana and the MLH team



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