The countdown

Well, it is Saturday. Sometime this morning, Luke, Joshua and Jeremiah will put our center banner on the front of the church. I wonder if this will bring more attention to the center. Previously we were in an alley, so not like people saw it all the time. Prayers that this will allow those moms who need to see it, to see it. The great thing is: it is 5 blocks from the hospital. While the hospital does not prefer to do abortions, it does first trimester abortions. Who knows, someone might see it and think. That hospital knows us, so we are going to ask about putting up our posters in the ob/gyn section.....prayers please!! any lives we can save!!!

I am nervous.....we don't know how many to expect for Monday morning. Alexia says 20-30....AHHHH!!!.... I have to get up and go through our power point about what is a crisis pregnancy center, who we minister and why...Wuli has the rest:-).

We also have to have our "plans" for the 6months for the gov't. Well, I. DON'T. KNOW!!! We would like to have a speaker from another CPC come and do some teaching in our area......we would like to have someone come and talk about post abortion counseling.

We are starting Morning Light Assoicaition. This will help tremendously as that will allow us to do fundraisers here in Taiwan. So we can fundraise for Hagar's House and/or our babycenter. We will see how God leads.

We see God doing so much. Walking by faith is not easy, but it is the safest. It is a spiritual battle right now. I have read some recently in Proverbs and it talks alot about not envying the rich, watching your mouth (ok, that is my rough translation) and the like......alot seem to point to the situation at hand and say "do what you are doing, don't be mean, just trust in God for HIS riches are more than you will ever know."

So, we will keep going. Please pray for Monday (we have alot to clean up now at church!) and pray that this week we can minister to at least one new mom.....just one new mom......that is our prayer.....will you pray for that too? I will let you know when we meet her:-)

And so it goes.....

Well, we made it through a year! God has been good by leading us through our trials and fears and showing us HIS promise of never leaving us is always true.

The past weeks have been rather exhausting, emotionally and physically! Really, when you are emotionally down, it wears you down physically. Between the heat and moving, blah!! yesterday, well, I felt like a walking zombie (hopefully didn't look like one!!).

As it happens, RARELY MIND YOU, a momma did not show up for adoption court date. Wuli had been trying to contact her, we even sent her train tickets! yet, no show. I apologized to the judge and she understood as our moms are normally on time and very cooperative. The judge made another court date and all we can do it keep on the mom to come. She hasn't answered our phone calls though.

Why? I don't know. Her reasons could be numerous. I understand her 3yr old was sick and that could be it. Her dad was just diagnosed as being a vegetable, she could be upset about that. Could be she doesn't want to face the fact of adoption. Lots and lots of reasons and could be's. But I do know that no matter what, she needs your prayers!! All of our moms do. Could you stop and pray for moms in the program today? Unfortunately I don't have the freedom to tell you how many and what not, but pray for the moms being counseled by MLH. They are in crisis, struggling with decisions and over all just needing the extra support. So today, pray for the mommas and their hearts!

On a better note......we have fundraisers in the works!! Two or three musical groups are donating cd's for our fundraiser!!! so stay tuned!!! all are going to keep the cpc ministry going!!!soooooooo........if you know of anyone else who wants to help or can help.....let me know.....keep an eye out!!

Movin' on Up!!

Tuesday, June 14, 2011


On the move!!!

There are only a few things that are scheduled (baby appointments and such), but other than that, it is a rare quiet time that we can use to move. The walls are looking bare and boxes are everywhere (hey that rhymed!), and the move begins. I really despise moving.....



We have reached an agreement to finish out somethings with our previous sponsor, though what we thought were things that we could continue to use for the ministry, they have said they will give us a date or two when they want them back. Those items were purchased not donated. So, families who thought their fees were helping the ministry, it only helped to a certain point. Sad, but if they feel like that must be done to make them feel better, I know our God owns a cattle on a thousands hills......HE WILL PROVIDE!!!



This has all been very testing. I will be honest again and say how discouraging it has been and how tiring it has been. There have been times where it is like "what do I do? what do I do?" Trying to keep from making emotional decisions are quite hard for women!! I want to make decisions that God wants us to make.



Yesterday though, as I was cleaning out things, I found something that Luke made for me after I got back from my first trip to Taiwan. We were not "boyfriend/girlfriend" yet, but he sent me a calligraphy of my favorite verses, Isaiah 43:1, 2 "But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. "



Maybe it was God reassuring me? I don't know. That frame is sitting in my office now. I found comfort in that first as a freshman at Bob Jones University when our family doctor did test and it said that I had cancer of the lymphnodes. THOUGH at surgery, it was a staph infection (doesn't God have a sense of humor!) But that verse brought special comfort to me then and it still does now.



Recent events have given our staff the feeling that we were drowning, physically and emotionally. All the decisions to make, how will it affect the ministry, where will we get the money, will we have food on our tables this month? etc......money suddenly dropped is no laughing matter. But again and again, God brings that verse in Isaiah to me. Along with I Corinthians 10:13 "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it." God does not give us more than we can bear, we may not think we can bear it, but we were never asked to bear it alone, and better yet, God has an escape plan:-)...



So, as we go on our next chapter in our ministry to women, please be with us in prayer about our needs. Fitting that this all comes about as our 1yr anniversary shows up!!!



"To God be the glory, great things He has done!"

So much to think about....

I will be quite frank and say that this past week has been very discouraging. Satan has used more than one way to eat away at me and the whole staff!! In the course of 7 days: Jeremiah (our only man at the office, he is maintenance, driver, helps with outreaches, body guard  on long travels or court cases, etc!) has a 3 yr old daughter who fell while playing with her brother and ended up in the ER. She had a humungous gash in her toungue and the doctors only did not due stitches because no one was sure if she would cooperate (I don't think most adults would!!), he ended up eating something bad and has had stomach pains and such for 72hours now, my Noah started his vomitting issues on Tuesday (6/7) and was in the ER for fluids for 8hours,  Alexia was at the ER with her 4yr old due to high fever. Wuli so far has not had any major issues with her family, but she would covet everyone's prayers!! Add that will heat bringing on the attitudes. Everyone anxious just to get the moving over with!!
Yup, we move to the third floor of the church over the course of the next few weeks. Praise God we have found some second hand stuff for it. Unfortunately, what we thought were donations or help for the ministry eneded up not being quite what we expected. So we were told that over time, those things "purchased" with their money we either had to give back or we could buy them back. Well, since we are nonprofit too and money is not just sitting their waiting for us to spend, we figure we will give a big hunk back and then go from there. We did have someone say that they would see that we got 3 window unit a/c so I am really praying!! We will definetly be loosing some weight through sweating though!!!

Sometimes when we look at the whole picture, as humans tend to do, it is so discouraging! I have to loook to see how am I going to pay my staff, pay rent and utilities for the momma's home this month. Yes, MLH/CPC now has to find a way to pay for those so we can continue to service women in crisis. We cannot count on it from someplace in the USA as before.

This also puts everyone a bit on edge. Everyone needs to eat and pay bills. Everyone has sat and talked about what to expect and what to do. Words cannot express how thankful I am to our Lord for the team HE has brought to me! We discuss everything openly and freely. It is not my team and my ministry (as someone falsely accused me of saying), but God's. It is because of it being God's that we are where we are at now.....so, the issues we have now, maybe they are just crossroads in this journey of serving our Lord. One thing we know, our Lord does know where the roads are headed and that is comforting. Of course, if He would give me and idea of what is going on that would be helpful:-)  

Please keep us in prayer. Pray for wisdom, endurance, strength and ability!! Pray for funds to come in in a timely manner. We need roughly $8000US/month to keep it going!