new blog

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La Nina De Tus Ojos Tijuana Ministries

new job opportunities on the horizon, but my heart needs a revival

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i am uploading quite a few (hundreds) chuuk pictures here

Mexico November 24-25, 2007

Thanksgiving Weekend

Please, pray for former Mizpah student, Franky Fango. Pray for perseverence & academic success as well as spiritual growth at Pensacola Christian College in Florida. Please, also pray for former Mizaph student & Pacific Island Bible College graduate, Dayson Marar, at The Master's College in Santa Clarita, CA. Dayson still needs funds to pay his tuition for this semester. Also, there have been some hard times in his family & other uncertainties as well. The ministry continues...Thank You!

Check it out!

http://www.studioemily.com

Me & my Brothers at Balboa Park

Franky in Oceanside

Franky at Sea World

Franky, Annie Colop, Becca Boone, Me, Mom, Dayson

Hmm...

I had a dream that I was returning to Chuuk this semester. Pat says, "Buy your tickets!"

My Song of the South

Visit Katie's new blog http://www.mysongofthesouth.blogspot.com

i got a call from Gospel for Asia today asking for my resume & a portfolio of my photography. :) please, pray. photography + jesus + travel = very exciting possibility :)

I'm picking Dayson up from LAX tomorrow, er, today (it's late).

PRs

1. God glorifying farewells
2. Safe & fun travel to and in Korea
3. Thanksgiving for our Korean hosts (Manuel, Mihamm & family)
4. Safe travel home from Korea next week
5. For Maverick who wrote in our yearbooks "If you love us, come back."
6. For Benricko who still is not the same
7. For Miss Irene who is staying & praying & hoping for her husband & children to be with her
8. For State-side college-bound students & all the financial & travel arrangements
9. For Katie to take care of financial aid business before we are cut off from communication!
10. For wisdom to know what I should do this summer & fall...

Thank you & Farewell! (For now...)

emily

Picnic & Reef Island

Graduation & the Logan Tree

A Day with Dayson (ironically I'm not posting any pictures of him...)

Who knew I would care so much...

Please, keep praying for Benricko (Becko) and Spencer...for a falling out that Becko had with me and a falling out they have had with each other.

I read this devotion today (from a book from Bill & Joanne Brandon) & it hit the spot for this situation: It is not so much adverse events that make you anxious as it is your thoughts about those events. Your mind engages in trying to take control of a situation, to bring about the result you desire. Your thoughts close in on the problem like ravenous wolves. Determined to make things go your way, you forget that I am in charge of your life. The only remedy is to switch your focus from the problem to My Presence. Stop all your striving, and watch to see what I will do. I am the Lord! (from Jesus Calling by Sarah Young, p148)

Thanks,
ee

Monday (Yesterday)

Nick, Ana, and Nico left yesterday. Emily and I were uncontrollably bawling at the airport.

Please, earnestly and constantly be in prayer for...

...Dayson Marar and his plans for the summer as well as his financial status with Master's.

...the Logan Church group coming to the US and the most important details to be worked out before I leave on Monday.

...for trust, love, trust, joy, trust, peace, trust, patience, trust, trust, trust, trust, trust.

May the Lord bless you richly!

Updates

1. I’ve been officially accepted into the Master’s TEFL/Intercultural Studies program at Columbia International University! And the guest speaker for baccalaureate, a professor at Pacific Island Bible College on Tol, taught at CIU for 14 years (or something like that).
2. Although we’ve gone days at a time without electricity lately, it just makes us more thankful when it is on.
3. We’ve been to the airport three times in the past week. We’ll be going tomorrow morning to see Nick, Ana, and Nico off. One more week and then we’ll be gone. …I’m trying not to think about it.
4. Had dinner with six of the senior girls tonight. Was very amusing. …Some of the senior boys (and a few others) crashed the event at Lei Side Café. It was hilarious when Franky and my recorded song came over the speakers and I hear KI say, being overly loud on purpose, “Wow. That girl’s voice is the most beautiful voice I’ve ever heard.” It was even more hilarious when DS came up behind the booth with his napkin and asked for my autograph.
5. Graduation is on Friday and so we have the next four days with not a whole lot to do. Pray that we have wonderful visits from our students, that we get to “climb the mountain,” and that we get another dive in.
6. I went to the “Mission to the U.S.” meeting at Logan tonight. It was very interesting. Some of the group was very understanding and knew that they were still loved and prayed for by people at CCC. Others were very skeptical. But I asked them to come to California. I’ve been praying morning and night that they would. They had completed wiped California off their schedule because of rejection but they will rethink through their plans and maybe come.
7. Thank you to all of the phone calls, e-mails, comments, and especially prayers for all the happenings here lately. It has been quite emotionally and spiritually draining and I covet your prayers and interaction with me.

PRAYER REQUESTS
Please, keep them coming…
1. For God to do a miracle so Dayson (second highest graduate at PIBC and awarded student of the year at his graduation) can attend The Master’s College in the fall. He was accepted but is still waiting to here from financial aid. Pray also that God leads him to a place to live for the summer (preferably someplace in CA) and for a way to earn money.
2. For Becko and Emily to be reconciled (long story).
3. Director for next year.
4. Teachers for next year.
5. Custodial staff for next year.
6. For all the plans for Korea to work out perfectly and our time there to be one of wonderful fellowship with our missionary hosts and lots of rest and relaxation.

…

I’ve been reading a wonderful book. Here’s a quote:
“A hungry man can be a fast learner. When you come to a table with nothing but need, you are grateful for things you might have pushed aside before. And when you kneel, hungry and broken at His table, you receive a grace from Him you might, at some other time, have completely missed. You’ll know this grace when you take it. It goes deeper, quicker, and it burns all the way down.”

Also, I’ve been reading THE MOST Wonderful Book. I’ve been encouraged by the book of Nehemiah in particular, especially chapter 9. It’s pretty much just a summary of God’s work in the nation of Israel – God’s grace and love, Israel’s sin and need for repentance, God’s grace and love, Israel’s sin and need for repentance, God’s grace and love, Israel’s sin and need for repentance, God’s grace and love – the story of my life. But the really cool thing about it is that God used His love for the many times faithless nation of Israel to enlighten the heart of a little girl 2,500 years later out here in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. If God can use the nation of Israel to reveal more about Himself to me, then there is a glimmer of hope that He can use me also to reveal to others more about Himself. I pray with all of my heart that He did.

Junior Retreat

Patsy, Vanity, & Miss Katie

Sinie, Betty, Miss Katie, & Immacu

Augustina & Miss Junotte


Miss Emily & Peter

Betty, Augustina, Aileen, Roselima, Beulah, & Vanity



Junior

Mickenzy & Teison

Senior Banquet

Freshmen Myron and Benricko

Junior Disc Jockey DS

Isaiah

KI, Alvin, Franky

Ermy, Evangeline, Doralyn, Gina, Immacu

School Farewell Party

party food... magenta rice, kimche flavored rice noodles, potatoe salad, and the best chicken in the world... yummy

Charity and Darian

Miss Irene, Emily and Nico




Doralyn and Miss Katie

DS on the keyboard

Vanity, Em, Betty, & Katie

Junior, Em, and Frank

And I know this is bragging but I do have to admit that it's sort of cool. Director was eating at a little cafe the other night and he said that as the music played all of the sudden... Franky and Katie started singing. Haha! That's right. I am officially recorded onto the new BIC album singing "Your Grace Still Amazes Me" - wow!