Oil in my lamp....

This is a ministry is not for the faint of heart. There are times when you just want to smack people, and times when you don't know if you are coming or going. Times when you really want to go to a seminar, but for some reason God puts things in the way and you just follow God's leading.

A mom called, we had talked to her before. The "story" was that she was pregnant with another man's baby and her husband didn't want the baby. I followed up with this momma on Friday. Well, not what it seems. Baby is her husbands, but she wants a divorce because he is too traditional.....more or less meaning that her (21yr old with a 3yr old and now pregnant) idea is to just have fun, where her husband's idea (he is 30yr old and working, they have been married for one year!) is she needs to be responsible. So, she ended up hanging up on me. Another story for that book in the making!!LOL! (she was the one I wanted to smack....very immature!)

But later, a former mom who adopted her baby out, came by. She does every so often. She told me the funniest thing (she didn't think it was funny....she was quite serious.) She went to the temple the other to do the ritual (long story), and she saw someone she faintly knows, but the lady was crying and all and so our momma, Ah Fen, went and talked with her. The lady was in despair of some issues and contemplating suicide, she had no one to talk to so she came to the temple to talk to Matzu (Sea goddess), but she felt the sea goddess was ignoring her (uh...duh!! yeah...it is a block of wood or metal decorated well!). So Ah Fen tells her she can tell her problems to the foreign pastor's wife (me!!LOL!!) and told her story. The lady is like "so they will talk to non Christians?" yeah!! but churches ask for money and I don't have money.......Ah Fen told her, well, they have never asked for money and I have eaten there alot (she tends to come to potlucks!!LOL!). The lady said she had been at a church for a bit but when she ran out of money, she was asked to leave (ok...that is the 3rd time I have heard of a story like that!). So anyway, Ah Fen was like "Shrmu (what I am called in Chinese, means Pastors wife!LOL!) I may have talked her into coming on Sunday." Though Ah Fen might not come-.-

But I was excited to see that we had made an influence on her that she could and would tell others to talk to the "foreign Shrmu".

See, that is what we are here for!! Making an influence!!God knew I needed that at that time.

Pray was we reach out to another momma this week. She will be with us a short time, so pray we can have an influence on her!!

We still need Morning Light Angels!!