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!