June/July/Destination USA: it was good to travel and
visit so many great friends and family across the USA. Many thanks to all who
shared amazing hospitality and love!
And what kind of a Grandma would I be if I didn’t mention the
highlight of the trip: the birth of my new grandson London David
Burgess.
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| June 19th 2013 / 8:21 am / 8lbs 3 oz |
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| London David Burgess |
He is healthy, happy and so handsome / I am totally
in love with him. I snuggled with him as often as I could, knowing how hard it
would be to say farewell. I enjoyed every waking minute, and even watched over
him as he slept! I am very thankful for the gift of being present at his
birth. The miracle of watching a new life emerge and hearing the newborns first
cries never get old.... I am in awe of the gift of life itself.
August/Back in Nicaragua: after just a couple of
days in a guest house, I found a very nice one bed apartment to move into. I
borrowed a mattress and slept on it on the floor until I was able to get help
moving in about a week later. It is smaller than where I was living before, so
am getting ruthless about sorting through stuff and giving away all the things
I really don’t need anymore!
Opportunities
to serve opened up immediately once I was back. First, I helped to care
for 4 children ages 1 to 7 while their mother travelled out of Nicaragua for a
wedding. Secondly, I was asked to look after 3 children, ages 4, 5 and 16 for a
month. Their parents had to return to USA with another sibling who needed
further surgery and treatment in her battle with cancer. So I get to hang out
with these precious angels, and the cool thing about this is that I looked
after the two younger ones when they were babies! Now adopted into a wonderful
Christian home, it is so encouraging to see what God has done in their lives.
With God nothing is impossible! Some of you may remember baby Gabriella.
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| Me and baby Gabriella Christmas 2009 |
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| Gabriella on the L with her sister Sadie, last week. |
On top of all this, I have the privilege of being substitute
teacher at NCA for about a month. I covered a few classes teaching English at
first, and am now covering Special Education for kinder through 12th grade. It
has been such a blessing to be back at NCA again. As you can see, never a dull
moment.
Please join me in prayer about the next step in ministry. I know
God has placed children in critical need
on my heart and I am confident that He will guide me in the right direction.
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| visiting children in the city dump, Managua |
I thank you all for your continued support with prayers, love,
hospitality, encouragement and finances,
My dear friends, as Heidi Baker writes in her book "Compelled
by LOVE.” I pray that you may have the riches of the poor because as Matthew
5v3 says: "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is The Kingdom of
Heaven."
With love in Christ,
From me
Andrea J
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