Well family and friends this is post is probably going to be my last one for the next three months. I won't have internet at all the first month and the last two month the internet will be kinda sketchy. So I just wanted to take a few minutes to share some important things with you all!
First off I want to thank all who have supported me! I will forever be grateful for the sacrifices that you made for me. Know that everything God uses me to do while I am on the field you are a part of. I am going into this knowing that in everything I do I am representing God, my church, and all my supporters! I hope that I can make you all proud.
Ok so just to share a little bit more about what we will be doing and where we will be serving. Monday evening my team and I will be leaving Kona and flying to LA, We catch a flight from there to Atlanta and from Atlanta we have a 15 hour flight!! to Johannesburg. We stay in Johannesburg for a few days to secure our visas for Mozambique. After we have our visas and all our supplies we jump on a bus and head from Mozambique. It is about a 8 hour drive!! When we reach the South Africa and Mozambique border all the people have to get off the bus and wait while the bus is searched for stowaways and then the bus is driven over the boarder. We then have to walk through customs and cross through a bunch of fences and basically no mans land, into Mozambique. So I will be able to say that I walked all the way from South Africa to Mozambique. :)
The first two weeks in Mozambique we will be staying in an orphanage in Zimpeto! We will have chance while we are there to go into the "bush bush", which is called that because all that you see out there is a bush and oh another bush, and another....ok so that's probably not why it is called that, but it is the middle of nowhere. In the orphanage we eat, play, and live with the children! The second two week in Mozambique we will be staying on the YWAM base in Mamputo. While we are there we will be doing children's ministry.
The last part of my trip will be spent in George, South Africa. In George we will be working again with children! The organization we are serving with is called LIFE community services. Our team will be split up and we will working in several of the LIFE locations in George. We will be working with kids ranging from birth to their late teens!
In both Mozambique and South Africa we will have chances to be on both the radio and TV, we have been working on skits and dance routines and will be ministering through these! I am so excited about all the opportunities that we will have!
Ok so now I have some prayer request.
1. Be praying for my team! Pray for unity, safety, health, and that we would all grow in our walks with Christ!
2. Pray for open doors! Pray that we would be sensitive to where the Holy Spirit is leading us.
3. Pray for the ministries that we will be working with. They are Iris Ministries, YWAM and LIFE Community Services.
4. Prayer for our leader Brandon and Paul. Pray that God will continue to guide them as they lead our team.
5. Pray for me to be free of homesickness and anything else that might distract me.
So as I said in the beginning this will be my last blog for a while. To stay updated on our team visit our team blog:
http://mozambiquesouthafrica12.wordpress.com/ Please feel free to email me at
fields.maggie@gmail.com but be understanding that I might not be able to reply for a while! I would love and appreciate any encouragement you might want to send my way.
In closing I just wanted to share a passage of scripture that has been spoken over my whole team several times. God just keeps putting Isaiah 61 in front of us! So here it is.
The Spirit of God, the Master, is on me because God anointed me.
He sent me to preach good news to the poor, heal the heartbroken, Announce freedom to all captives, pardon all prisoners. God sent me to announce the year of his grace— a celebration of God's destruction of our enemies— and to comfort all who mourn,To care for the needs of all who mourn in Zion, give them bouquets of roses instead of ashes,Messages of joy instead of news of doom, a praising heart instead of a languid spirit.Rename them "Oaks of Righteousness" planted by God to display his glory.They'll rebuild the old ruins, raise a new city out of the wreckage.They'll start over on the ruined cities, take the rubble left behind and make it new.You'll hire outsiders to herd your flocks and foreigners to work your fields,But you'll have the title "Priests of God," honored as ministers of our God.You'll feast on the bounty of nations, you'll bask in their glory.Because you got a double dose of trouble and more than your share of contempt,Your inheritance in the land will be doubled and your joy go on forever. "Because I, God, love fair dealing
and hate thievery and crime,
I'll pay your wages on time and in full,
and establish my eternal covenant with you.
Your descendants will become well-known all over.
Your children in foreign countries
Will be recognized at once
as the people I have blessed."
I will sing for joy in God,
explode in praise from deep in my soul!
He dressed me up in a suit of salvation,
he outfitted me in a robe of righteousness,
As a bridegroom who puts on a tuxedo
and a bride a jeweled tiara.
For as the earth bursts with spring wildflowers,
and as a garden cascades with blossoms,
So the Master, God, brings righteousness into full bloom
and puts praise on display before the nations.
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Faith + Hope + Love
Maggie
