This Is Not About Me

Pastor's Wives Fellowship and Dessert. Great Night!

This last week we had a missions group come from Colorado for about 5 days. We started out our time together by climbing this hill that has a cross at the top and the hill also overlooks San Felipe’s poorest areas. These areas are where most of the children that come to Sonshine will be from. Last week I was asked to do the devotion for that morning and come up with a scripture and something small. Now because I knew this would start their trip and set the mode, I just prayed for God to give me something to say because I had no idea. I needed the Lord to give me a scripture or vision. On Thursday afternoon, I was getting a little worried because I had not heard from the Lord about what I was going to say to the group Saturday morning (early morning like 6:00 am). Then the Lord spoke to me while I was getting ready for bible study that evening. God said tell them that it wasn’t about them or us. I bit confused and I just started thinking they know that they aren’t coming for themselves. Then the Holy Spirit just began to remind me that this is not about me, or them, or any staff. I began just dialouging with the Lord and my response to what He was saying was “of course Lord it’s about the children and making a home for your children and teaching them about you.” Then I heard the Holy Spirit say that is bigger than that and bigger than what any of us will ever see.  It is not just about the children who will be at Sonshine but about the generations that follow them and will know the name of the Lord. Some of the children that will be at Sonshine will go on to evangelize and spread the gospel to other nations and thousands upon thousands will come to know the Lord through them and their testimonies. So I realized it is so not about me, but about glorifying the name of the name of the Lord and making His name, His love, and His grace famous. If the things that I do here don’t flow out of that motivation then what is the point?

Playground put together and ready for children!

Quick Update:We have our building signed off. Finally, that was huge and now God is moving the process along quickly with the Mexican Social Services. So please be keeping the process in your prayers this next week. I think the children will be here very soon!

The fences and clothes line going up

There were 10 people that came in this group. As you can imagine this week the Sonshine Staff had a great deal of help from a fantastic team of believers from Colorado. They worked so hard. When the week was over they had put together our playground and moved fences, put in a large clothes line, and painted and stained so much. I was so blessed by them and their heart to serve. They encouraged me and I really just enjoyed spending time talking with them and hearing how the Lord has moved in their lives and transformed them.  Also the ladies from the team put together a dessert event for the Pastor’s Wives. It was really great to hear their testimonies and what they do to minister to the community. I will say that we have some amazing women in this town who love the Lord and are committed to doing His will.

A gift from the Colorado team.
Sonshine Hacienda
T-shirt they had made