As DTSWe are about to go on outreach but we still need some finances to be able to go. YOU can help us accomplish our goal! Muchas gracias!
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Last week, we as DTS group went into our team building challenge: NIKO Wilderness Challenge.This ain’t no walk in the park, baby! NIKO is a 4-day extreme wilderness challenge camp designed to prepare youth for missions in developing nations. More importantly, NIKO can also radically develop your character. During this time, we had the opportunity to practice servanthood and giving up of personal rights, NIKO can help you become both the leader and team-player you’ve always wanted to be. So it was a great time of having fun going into the unknown. Thank God I was able to accomplished my 10th NIKO! In June of 2006, I had the opportunity to travel a long distance to a beautifu place called India. I was there for almost six months and I loved it! Now, two years later, I finally get a chance to go back to that amazing place.
As many of you know, during the DTS program we have an outreach and the current DTS we will be going to India. It will be a team of 21 people and we will be leaving in six weeks. We are exciting about this opportunity to go to a place with such a big need of God and to be there to help the poor, love the unloved and bring¨the kingdom of God to each place we go. It is also very excited to be the first DTS outreach team from our location to go to the 10/40 window. We want to see God moving in our lives and through our lives while we are in that country. There is a lot to do still before our departure; some of our Mexicans in our team are trying to get their passport and then we all need to get Indian visas. Also, we have to raise arround $43,000 dollars. I know it sounds like a huge amount of money but we trust that God will provide. We will keep on seeking God for direction as we get ready to go on this journey. Do you wanna be part of this? Pray and ask God if you are to countribuit with as financially. Remember that if you cannot go, your dollars can. Pray for specific words from God to our team. Together we can do more for the kindgom of God! I think I just experienced the three weeks ever! Yes, it was in Switzerland, where I also got to see snow for the second time. I went there with my fiancee and I had a great time but it was a bit too cold for me. During my time there I got to meet "the family", spend Christmas with them and experience a new culture. A LOT OF FUN!!! After a year of Jean-Philippe (my fiancee) not being home, he got to see not just famly but also friends. Christians and non-Christians to whom we got to share about what we are doing. We also had the opportunity to share in a couple of churches. One night, Jean-Philippe's church opened the doors for us to have a "Mexican night". So after a day of getting ready and making 214 sopes, we got to hang out with around 80 people and share about our ministry here in Mexico. I thank God for this time that he gave me of not just resting but also sharing His love. Time changes. We grow and get to experience new things.
A week ago, a new season of my life started, and this is how it went... I was all busy and stressing, trying to get things ready for the trip to Switzerland, when Jean-Philippe comes and asks me, "Hey, do you want to go out for dinner?" To which I answered, "Sure, let me just finish this." (To be honest, inside of me I didn't really want to go anwhere.) So, he took me to my favourite pizza place in town. While waiting for the pizza to be brought out, I started just bringing back memories of the two years we've known each other and memeories about how everything started. We laughed and had a good time seeing how we have fallen in love. It is a great story! Ooohhh, and obviously we got to eat rica pizza! Hahaha, this is so funny to me...So then I said, "I can't wait to marry you!" (Yeah, yeah, those words came out of my mouth. Believe it or not). Pulling the ring out, JP answered, "Well, then you can say yes to me." "Wow, wow, wow, wow!" That was my reaction. No words but tears started coming from my eyes. "No, this is not real," I said. "It can't be. You're kidding." "Oh yes, it's real," Jean Philippe replied. After a few minutes of crying and not giving him an answer, he goes, "Hhhhmmm, you still haven't said yes. Do you want me to go down on my knee? Do you want me to put it away and ask you another time?" And my answer was finally and obviously, "YES!" I was in SHOCK for the first little while and I wouldn`t look at my finger. Then it hit me and I started calling my family and telling them the news. Please be praying for us as we start this season together! After a long time of not being able to participate with our Homes Of Hope program, last weekend we, as a DTS, got to help build four houses!
Four families were blessed with a house and I was able to see how that happened. A team of about 45 people came to bless the needy here in my city of Ensenada. So we divided into four teams and in two days we built them a beautiful house. The team also wanted to bless each family with groceries, so we took the moms shopping. "What?" they asked as I translated for two of the moms telling them that they could get whatever they wanted in the store. They were surprised and I am sure it was the first time they went to get groceries without a budget. "I don't need much", or "I don't know what to get," they would say as I would put more and more in their cart. I got to encourage them telling them that God not only wanted their families to have a house but also to have food. And that they needed to seek God too since He was the one providing for them. I've got to be honest; the thought of, "why can this not happen to me?" came to my mind as they were getting all kinds of groceries. But God spoke to me, "This is my time to give to others and be a bridge to help others! Through your translation others are being blessed and I am blessing you by seeing how I work. I am taking care of you Sarvia. Keep serving others and your time will come." It was a great weekend of seeing God's hand moving and proving to the needy. It was a time where God reminded me that He is using me and this is just the beginning!! Thanks for your prayers and support. You are allowing me to experience all this. God bless you all! Yeah this is me playing the guitar.... I bet many of you didn't know I play it, huh?? Well... I kinda do sometimes. The other day, after a night of worship where my brother played, me, being me, came up to him and asked him if I could jam with him. Him, being him, said: hmmmm we are pretty much down for tonight but what about you playing with us tomorrow? My obvious response was: hmmm NO thanks, I don't play in front of people. As I was going to bed, I couldn't make up my mind about playing worship the next morning. I didn't really want to do it but at the same time I felt like kind of a hypocrite, challenging people about using their gifts and not being afraid. So I was like: Sarvia, are you gonna be a chicken and not play and learn or are you gonna take this opportunity and be brave (as your name means) and play? The next morning arrived, and I decided to be there to practice for worship. So, I ended up playing! Even though I am not the best guitar player ever, at all, I had a great time worshiping my creator with the gifts that He has given me. This may not seem like a big thing to you, but seriously, if we think about it, how many times a day do we have opportunities to serve God with the gifts He's given us and we don't use them? Even just because we feel lazy, we don't feel like doing it, or we're not the best at it, we've missed that chance to bring glory to God and worship Him on a daily basis. It doesn't matter what kind of gifts you've got, He's the one who has given it to you to use it for His glory!! Time flew by and we are already going into our third week of Discipleship Training School. Our guest speaker is Tim Pratt, and he is teaching on "Team Building." We are excited to hear about this. It was cool to see everyone seeking God to see what it is that He has for us as a team for this week. We believe that God wants to show us this week how He will start using us to love each other and love others once we learn how to work as one. Believe me, having 31 people from different places and different backgrounds is amazing, but it is also challenging. We are committed to work as one and allow God to lead us.
So this week we will have lectures, and we will also have fun activities, that will show us the importance of being vulnerable in order for us to really get to know each other. We want God to show us more of the oneness of His character. Be praying for us as we seek Him this week. After 10 years, it finally expired hahahaha.
My american visa expires this year so I had to make an appointment at the American Embasy in Tijuana and I got super nervous because everyone keep saying that it was a big deal for me to get it. But since me and my brother needed to go so we went and it was not a big deal at all so we both got our visas for 10 years. wohooo!!!! Gracias a Dios! This week we had our mexican holiday "Dia de la Independencia". It was so much fun to be able to celebrate with friends from the other YWAM bases within YWAM San Diego Baja.
We got to go to the main plaza in the city where everybody in the city gathers to exclaim: VIVA MEXICO!!! So there I am being loud but celebrating my mexican heritage. |
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