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Name: Sara
Country: United States
Gender: Female
Interests: I love to rock climb--on walls or cliffs but i like cliffs the best! Rapelling is cool but haven't done it much. Love to cliff-jump and go on adventures outside! I also love just chillin' out wiht my friends having great (or random!) convorsations
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10/13/2004
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| Sheryl passed away yesterday afternoon. Please pray for all effected as we try to sort through and make any sense of this situation. Everyone that i have talked to, including myself, is in shock right now.
Go to the following blog to get a glimpse of how i'm sure all of us who knew and loved sheryl felt when we heard the news: this is a blog of another one of my professors from Focus: http://deltackett.com/
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| So this entry isn't going to be so up beat. I will start off by saying that things continue to go absolutely wonderful here and i am loving it and continue to feel the presence of the Lord. This week I am teaching for my roommate, who is in the states for a little while.
This past week i recieved an email that nobody would want to recieve. It explained that one of my professors from Focus on the Family Institute only has 2 weeks to 2 months left to live, according to the doctors. This professor of mine (Sheryl DeWitt) had a huge influence and impact on my life. No one can understand how much this lady means, unless you were a Focus Institute student, and sat under her instruction and were mentored by her. Her love for the Lord just oozed from every part of her, and she made you feel so loved and accepted ....I could go on and on, but needless to say...she means so much to me and has impacted 1000s of people's lives. While i was at the institute last semester she was diagnosed with cancer, and was unable to finish teaching our semester. So, we all were shocked. Anyways...the doctors had a good prognosis and thought she would be fine after treatment. Well, then i recieved that email last week...and it is not looking so good for us on this side of heaven.
If you could please pray for Sheryl, as she was placed in hospice care this week and for her family....3 teenagers and her husband. She taught our family life studies class at focus...and taught it with passion from the Lord.
Her picture is below. Please also pray for the institute staff, and all FFI alum, as we try to make sense of this situation.
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| So.....me and my roommate took a bunch of the girls from the ranch to the waterpark on Saturday....and we saw a man taking pictures of us. Later, we asked him what they were for...and he said "La Tribuna." Soo...we thought we would check to see if our picture ended up in the Tribune because he took a few different shots. Needless to say i was surprised at the one that ended up being in the tribune....the one that we didn't even know he was taking....oh boy! Thought i'd show it to you all anyways...we got a kick out of it...and you will get even more of a kick out of it if you can read the spanish phrase under our picture...i will leave that up to you! :)
hahhaa...on the right is Angela (one of my roommates), then me, and one of the girls..Nancy.
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I had an amazing week
helping with the medical brigade! Here are a few stories and through these stories i was reminded of these attributes of our Lord:
**The JOY of the Lord: As i was helping with children's
ministry, sitting on a bench waiting for the kids to come, a little
girl came up to me with the biggest smile on her face! I pulled her up
into my lap, and she just started laughing! I began tickling her and
she just couldn't stop laughing. When i would stop tickiling her, she
would eventually stop laughing but look up at me with a grin from ear
to ear! Oh to have faith like a child and have the joy of the Lord pour
out of me as the joy of the laughter poured out of this precious
little!
**The
SIMPLICITY of the Gospel: Friday morning i was asked to fill in at
Evangelism for a few hours. Normally i would start out explaining to
the people that we were here helping them because we love Jesus and
want to serve Him by serving them. Then i would ask them if they knew
who Jesus was. Really everyone who i had ever talked to in these booths
(both last year and this year to my memory) say yes...claro! And my
translator was also used to that answer. Well, this time the beautiful
women looked me in the eye and said "No." She didn't know who Jesus is.
My translator and my eyes both got HUGE and we both got excited....so
i went through from creation to the fall to Christ's death to heaven
etc etc etc. After talking for awhile and reading scripture, I asked
the women if she would like to ask Jesus into her life and accept the
gift He was holding out to her? She said YES!!! And i got to pray wiht
this lady as she accepted the Lord as her personal Saviour. GloriaDios
**The POWER of the Lord and of PRAYER: As i worked in optical,
there were many times when we couldn't find the exact match, or it
would take us awhile to find a match close to what the patient
needed....espessially when it came to the bifocals. One of the team
members "Jane" and i had been looking and looking all day to match
prescriptions, and we were handed one that we new was going to eb a
tough one to find. Well, Jane and i kinda both said "Oh God, please"
and opened the bin of bifocals to try and find at least a pair that
would be close to what the lady needed....and one that would at least
not look hideous on her (as many donated glasses do look!). The first
pair Jane pulled out was a beautiful pair that matched the lady's
prescription. It was AMAZING. All we could do was praise the Lord as we
KNEW it was HIM who answered our lame plea for help! Never take prayer
for granted!
**Also, getting to know the people was such a blessing! Also,
we stay in one brigade site for 2 days, so at the end of the 2 days we
circle up with the honduran church memebers (who are the "Hosts" of the
brigade) and the north american short termers, as well as the
translators and us, the WGO staff. We pray, sing, and give words of
thanks to each other. When we sing, we normally sing in english then in
spanish. As i stood there singing, or listening to the hondurans
worship our SAME GOD i began to cry with Joy to my Lord who sent me
here.....to a people i love so so much! What a great God we serve.
Thank you Lord, for reminding me so often how much I love these people!
Praise Jesus!
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| Well.....I am officially here! Gosh, it feels so good to just BE here finally, after all of the waiting, packing, dreaming, goodbyes and excitement. God is so faithful....that's been my phrase all along...but I truly feel His presence so close.
I will post a couple pictures of where i live at the end of the post....
Today i was reading in Joshua...and it really struck me how Joshua is such an example of following the Lord and what He tells you to do. Joshua 22:1 "You have done all that Moses the Servant of the Lord commanded, and you have obeyed me in everything I commanded." Oh that we could be like htat--have the Lord look us in the eye and say "you have obeyed me in everything i have commanded." Cool. Then in vs.5 it says this "be very careful to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, to obey His commands, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and your soul." What a guide map right there to what how we are supposed to obey Him!
Anyways...that all just really hit me and so thought I'd share it.....
I am pretty sure i will be going on a medical brigade this week, and then probably the week after that i'll be going to language training in the city for a few weeks...but back at the ranch every weekend.
Please let me know how i can be praying for you all!!!!
In order of pics: my bedroom, view out our back porch, kitchen/living room of my house, my roommates cat with her 1 day old kittens!!
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