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3232The 2013 Recap: March
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Most months we get some sort of request from churches to do a picture, healing video, diagnosis etc. In March we were part of a project where countries all over the world sent in a picture that said “Church Arise” with their country. We never got to see the final version, but this was with one of our Sunday morning groups and a fun start to March.
We also kicked off March with a surprise party for one of our friends, Sergio. Sergio is one of those people that is overflowing with talent. He plays, quite amazingly, several instruments, soccer and is studying to be some kind of chemical engineer. (I can’t remember exactly what his program is.) One of the things I love about Sergio is that although he has a really crazy and busy schedule, any time we’ve done a special event with the kids’ ministry that needs live music, he’s always made the time to come and play.
March also meant more travel, but this time together as a family. We spent a good portion of the month of March in the city of Armenia working with Missionaries Ryan and Caitlyn Jordan – and their two adorable children. Our first week in Armenia, I taught a class on world religions at CEDI, the missions training school. Five days of five-hour long classes (not to mention all in Spanish) was a huge challenge for me, but it was also a wonderful experience.
While I was teaching, Corey, Alex and Maggie were helping Ryan and Caitlyn with a team of students from Virginia Tech. The students are part of Chi Alpha, a campus ministry that operates on many university campuses all over the US. This group has made a commitment to help Ryan and Caitlyn start a group on one of the local campuses. They spent the week walking around campus talking to students to find out their interest in being part of a group, their feelings on faith and helping them practice English.
They also took a day to visit a local school and pass out “The Book of Hope”, a magazine designed for kids to teach them about God.
Being in Armenia gave Corey a chance to look at the land where he was asked to design a retreat center. The idea is to build a large chapel, cafeteria, dorms, etc. so that churches throughout western Colombia will have a place to go for camps, retreats and large events.
We stayed a second week in Armenia to attend the district prayer and fasting retreat. About 300 pastors and spouses gathered together to pray and fast for three days for families, churches and Colombia. The three days were filled with praise, worship and preaching. The team from Iowa was back in town as well to share and pray together with the pastors. It was a powerful three days.
Our pastor’s wife, Matilde, and one of our associate pastors, Carlos, were ordained during the district prayer and fasting retreat. They were presented the following Sunday in both services. Poor Matilde was so sick that day that she actually passed out during the first service, but she’s a tough cookie! A doctor came and gave her fluids and some medicine and this was her smiling big in second service. We’re proud of our pastors who have gone through all of the classes and poured into ministry to receive their ordination.
After we returned to Medellín, our church held a day of prayer and fasting. Corey and I were asked to speak. First of all, I was amazed by how many people took what was a holiday day off from work and spent from 8am until 1pm at church for prayer and fasting. It was really incredible. There was time of praise and worship that was sometimes pumped up, sometimes very quiet and times of prayer that were so powerful. It was a wonderful day!
We live about a block away from a Catholic church. On Good Friday the streets around our apartment were shut down as the people from the church marched, sang and prayed.
This picture is from another night as another processional went through the city of Envigado. There were several of these platforms to carry through the streets and they looked incredibly heavy.
We took the youth out for a night of evangelism at the local town square. Armed with balloons, candy and verses of encouragement they hit the streets and passed everything out. This was a big step for most of them who have never tried to share the gospel or ever stepped out of the church walls to share their faith. It was a small gesture, but at the end we had a time for them to share how they felt and many were motivated to work harder at being open to share their faith.
On a fun note, we were explaining to friends about how we normally colored eggs at Easter, but now that the kids were big we hadn’t really thought about doing it. You know how those conversations go… in the end, we were all coloring eggs! It’s always fun to share cultural experiences either when we learn something new about Colombian culture or when we can share something new with our friends here!
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In February, I (Tona) took on a new role in the district. I was invited to be part of the Western District children’s ministry planning team. I really had no idea what that would mean, cialis but it turns out taking on that role would change the course of our entire year and introduce me to some of the most amazing people in the country.
I flew to the city of Calí to meet with the team. We spent an entire day vision casting and practically planning how we could reach more children throughout western Colombia, how we could train pastors and children’s workers and how we could motivate churches to invest in kids. We worked non-stop for hours on end and planned all of 2013.
I came back from Calí the next morning just in time to gather my things and get to a teacher workshop. We had a great time training our current team and adding new teachers. Our children’s church has been growing and we were desperate to train new workers!
Speaking of our children’s church, our kids are amazing. Check out this video of one of our little ones singing her heart out to God.
We also serve on the youth leaders’ team at our local church. There isn’t a youth pastor, so as a team we have tried to keep things moving. It’s been a difficult situation because there is a big lack in organization and consistency among the leadership, mostly because everyone is swamped in other ministry and youth ends up being the last thing to get organized, which means it was often getting cancelled. In February, one of our youth services was run by Alex and Maggie, who talked about their experiences in youth in all the different places they’ve been. It was a great motivator for the youth to create their identity as a place for their friends and take action to organize themselves.
This is just a glimpse of how busy some of our days were in February, although you can also see here we try our best to take Mondays off!
Maggie kicked off another season of soccer. This year Alex has aged out of the school.
In February I was also invited to be part of the national TAMI team. TAMI stands for Children’s Adventures in Missions Time (translated, obviously). I met with the team in the city of Ibague for a weekend to plan training workshops for churches to learn how to teach children about missions. This is a great time to be working with children’s ministry in Colombia!
We finished February with a big birthday party for our children’s church kids – a day of music, games, food and fun!
]]>The 2013 Recap: January
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On January 6th, Corey and I also celebrated 17 years of marriage.
At our local children’s church, every month we “travel” to a new location. In January, we traveled to Burkina Faso where the kids learned about “Ministry Now”, how they can be used by God in all kinds of ways, no matter their age or their talents.
Every month we paint a mural for the location we’re visiting. This is Burkina Faso.
On a family note, I finally got to “see” my dad. My dad lives in Mexico on a ranch and we have seen each other in person just three times since 2006. It was great to be able to finally use technology and talk face-to-face with him and my sister. We connected Colombia to Mexico to Chicago. It was great!
A different kind of family note, if you’ve kept up with our blog or Facebook pages, you will already know Juan David and Jonathan, but if you haven’t, let me introduce them. We met Juan David and Jonathan when they were teens in 2006. They became our Colombian sons to Corey and I and brothers to Alex and Maggie. Now that they are in college in Bogotá we don’t get to see them too often, but in January they came over for a week. It always feels like a family reunion and spiritually we always have a refreshing time. It’s also great for them because they go to school full time and work several jobs. When they come to Medellín they get to completely relax and recover. Juan David is an amazing musician and he is studying orchestra conduction. He is also the worship pastor at our old church in Bogotá and heads up Missions Kids Band, a band made up of youth and kids from the church who are currently recording their first album. Jonathan is finishing his studies in psychology and often plays in worship with Juan David. We love these two so much.
After Juan David and Jonathan left, we had another visitor, our dear friend Dany. This time was different, though. Dany got married! He brought his beautiful wife, Naara, with him. Dany is another old friend from Bogotá. We met him when he was part of Master’s Commission – we were both going through “new kid” stuff since he arrived to the group in Bogotá at the same time we did. Dany and Naara came to stay while they were on their way to Venezuela to become missionaries to the Karina tribe. It was a really interesting feeling for us, being on the flip side of itineration. Dany and Naara were visiting churches while they were here to raise funds for their mission. We helped connect them with pastors and shared our own experiences with them of God’s faithful provision to encourage them that God would take care of them in this walk of faith. While they were here we took advantage of Dany’s experience with children’s ministry and he did a special workshop for our teaching staff at the local church.
We finished off January with a huge event. A Christian professional soccer team from Korea named Goyang Hi F.C. did a tour through Latin America to play against popular teams. Our most popular team in Medellín (and arguably the most popular in all of Colombia) is Atlético Nacional. The goal of the Korean team was to play a friendly game as well as fill stadiums so the gospel could be shared. We took a group of kids from our church and watched as the stadium nearly hit capacity. The stadium holds 44,000 people. It was a phenomenal night. Atlético Nacional won in the end, but the real winner was God as several times through the night there were opportunities to tell everyone how much God loved them and many in the crowd would start chants for God instead of either team.
At the end of the night our family was invited to eat dinner with the Korean team, which was really cool because then we also met the owner of Atlético Nacional. Maggie and Alex play for the professional team’s soccer school, so we love this team! We had a chance to greet him and thank him for opening the doors for this huge event for kids. It was so large that highlights were even shown on ESPN and all of the news outlets here!
So there’s January. We had a great kickoff to the year. We weren’t able to spend the holidays with our blood family, but January was filled with our spiritual family and it was a great month and wonderful start to 2013.
]]>Where did this year go??
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Oh my goodness, medicine I knew time was flying by, viagra but I never realized that I have not blogged once in all of 2013. Here we are at the end of August and the year will be over before we know it. This year has been so busy, but in the best way.
This month is the first month we’ve really had a chance to breathe and, to be honest, it’s been kind of miserable for all of us! We’ve been so used to doing everything at 150 miles per hour and never being home, that this month it’s felt a little too quiet, a little too slow paced, a little claustrophobic and we’re all going a little crazy and itching to get moving in high gear again.
However, we’ve needed the break from big events and travel to make sure our everyday ministry was taken care of and a lot of the office work that’s been tossed aside was brought up to speed, not to mention it’s time to begin booking and planning next year for our year of itineration. There’s only 9 days left in this month to get it all done, organized and ready to start up again and life will start to feel crazy – and normal – again. Turns out, we’re just not that great at down time. (I should mention this hasn’t been a time of vacation, we’ve just been doing a lot more work from home and in our local church. My desk was lost below piles of translation projects, reports and other work.)
While I’ve got a few days to finish wrapping things up, I’m going to catch up here, too. The goal is to recap what has happened this whole year, a month a day. So for all four of you that read our blog, I apologize that we have neglected you. It’s so easy on Facebook to throw up a quick line, but I haven’t taken the time to really show the details of what’s been happening. This week and next we’ll be digging out the pictures and possibly some video to show you the amazing things God’s been doing here in Colombia. It’s been an amazing year so far and I am most excited about the last four months of this year and what we’re about to kick off.
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]]>Pastor Appreciation
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We also love that the staff we are working with are truly and genuinely good people. They have become great friends and co-laborers as we work together to discover new insights in the Word, new ways to bless the community and grow in our relationships together.
Lead pastors of Semilla de Fe ~ Pastors Gerson and Matilda
Sunday was pastor appreciation day and it was a fun one! The kids sang and danced while the worship team played one of their favorite songs. This is a pretty rough video, but it will at least give you a peek at the amazing kids we work with weekly! I should note this was not a prepared performance, but one of the songs we sing on Sunday mornings.
The service was full of special moments and they blessed us with a beautiful gift basket full of goodies (including a can of peaches that made Maggie very happy!)
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viagra Helvetica, cialis sans-serif;”>US holidays can sometimes feel very lonely, especially the ones like Independence Day, Valentine’s Day, Thanksgiving, even Christmas is celebrated differently here so the 25th isn’t really a big deal. This year, however, we were surrounded by a bunch of great people for Thanksgiving as our missionary fellowship from all over Colombia came together for three days of meetings, relaxing, sharing stories and, of course, eating some turkey!!
Along with sharing time with everyone we were especially blessed with the Jordan family staying with us. It was so much fun to have little ones running around the house! If you don’t know Ryan and Caitlyn Jordan, they are special friends. Caitlyn is the daughter of Mike and Naomi Lawrence, the missionaries we worked with in Bogotá. We first met Caitlyn when she was about 15 years old and on furlough. Her family is from the same home church we are. We were youth leaders at the time. At that time we would have never imagined a future where we’d be hanging out together on the mission field. It wasn’t even in our scope of thinking, but here we are spending time with a beautiful family who I respect and look up to as they do great things in missions! Having their two little ones around made us realize just how fast Alex and Maggie have grown up. It seems like just yesterday they were 2 and 3 years old! We loved having little Sibila walking around with a serious face saying, “I NEED ice cream, mommy. I NEED it!” Haha! Maggie tried that after they left…it doesn’t work so easily at 15!
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cialis Helvetica, sans-serif;”>Last month, on October 17, Maggie turned 15 years old. In Latin America that’s kind of a huge deal! It represents the year a female leaves behind the “little girl” and officially becomes a “young woman”. Maggie was stunning in her beautiful dress. We held the ceremony in our home with friends from church and a special family visit from home because Nana (Corey’s mom) was here with us to celebrate. Here’s a walk through Maggie’s special evening…
As guests arrive, Maggie waits in her bedroom with Nana and her friend, Laura.
When everyone arrives, Maggie descends the stairs and is received by Corey.
After presenting her to the room, Corey changes her shoes from flats to heels.
Maggie danced a choreographed waltz with Corey and Alex.
Corey and Tona light 15 candles – one for every year of Maggie’s life.
As part of the symbolism, 15 boys/men (all good friends of Maggie’s) each walked in and presented Maggie with a rose and a kiss on the cheek while a special 15th birthday song played.
At the end of the presentation of the roses, Maggie uses one rose to snuff out the candles.
The last rose Corey and Tona held as Maggie snuffed out the final candle.
Next came special words for Maggie, starting with Corey. The ceremony was done in Spanish, so Corey had a cheat sheet to help him say everything correctly. There may have been a few daddy tears shed here!
Next came Tona with words and memories for Maggie.
And then Alex, who surprised everyone with very sweet words instead of jokes at his sister’s expense!!
Next came Nana. It was so special to have her here for the special day!
Pastor Gerson spoke a blessing over Maggie and made a special acrostic for her.
A rough translation (where obviously the letters don’t all fit) is M – material made by God, A – You are joyful and beautiful, G – Big heart, G – Giant in your devotion, I – Immense in giving love, E – Entirely for the Lord
Next came Maggie’s dear friend, Laura. This girl has changed Maggie’s life and helped her greatly to adapt to life in Medellín.
Juan David is one of our “sons” from Bogotá, a very special person in our lives. He wrote a special and hilarious Spanglish song for Maggie.
After everyone gave their special words to Maggie. We had a surprise for her! Friends and family from all over the world sent in video greetings to wish Maggie a happy birthday. This left her shocked and in tears. She said she couldn’t believe how many people would take the time to send her a greeting! It was a very special moment!
Next came the toast to formally present Maggie as a young lady.
Then it was time for Maggie to say thank you.
Finally it was time for cake!!
As the cake was served we showed a video of Maggie’s life. This was a lot of fun to watch with everyone!
After cake Maggie had time to talk to all her guests and take pictures with everyone – and take off the large skirt to reveal the short dress she had underneath!
After taking pictures with all the guests, it was time for dinner – at midnight!! That’s part of the tradition!
After dinner most of the adults left and it was time to kick off the youth party!!
They partied until 4AM!!! Finally everybody went home or found somewhere to crash around the house!
The next morning Maggie was up making breakfast for all her friends!
And the party started up again with Wii and goofing off until about 8pm that night – a 24 hour party!!
]]>Supernatural Kids – Part Three: An Amazing Testimony
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treat Helvetica, sans-serif;”>Our whole focus was on reaching children between 4 and 14 years old, teaching them about the Holy Spirit, teaching them how much God loves them.It wasn’t really in my sights that God might use this event to rock a teenager’s world, but that is just what He did.
17-year-old Johan was walking by the church where we were holding the Supernatural Kids event when he saw the sign that said “Supernatural School”. Thinking it was a paranormal conference that would teach him about witchcraft and the occult, he walked through the church doors just as one of our children’s pastors was giving a short sermon on how the Holy Spirit is our best friend and how to accept Jesus Christ as Savior. The church looks like a giant warehouse and is open on two sides to streets. Nothing about it really marks it as a church.
Johan listened to the sermon and God touched his heart.He came forward for prayer and accepted Jesus into his heart.One of the visiting team members prayed with Johan and took him into a separate room for about 30 minutes to pray and listen to his story.
Johan has been living as a homosexual in a city called Armenia, Colombia. He had been deeply involved with drugs and alcohol.He’d been spending his time going to a park in Armenia where many of the LGBT community hang out and do drugs together.
While there, a girl approached him and asked him to buy some cocaine.He told them to give him the money and he would go purchase it, but saying they didn’t trust him to come back and not run off with their money, they suggested instead that he go with them to make the purchase.They walked together into a bad neighborhood and he made the purchase.
The girl invited him to a party they were going to have near the city and he accepted. While at the party he met a man named Andrés, he could make great money if he would let them take nude pictures for them to create a calendar to sell to the homosexual community, but he’d have to travel to Medellín to take them. Johan agreed to travel and be in the pictures.
They brought Johan to Medellin but once he arrived he realized they were going to make him do things he didn’t want to do. He ended up being with a group of other young men chained up, abused, used and sold as a sex slave for several days. He spoke of the horrible things they had made him and the other boys do.
On October 31, he was walking through the streets heading to his next “assignment” when he came upon our event. When he entered and prayed, the men praying with him asked what they could do to help him. He was terrified to return to the people who had been keeping him but didn’t know what to do next. Our team member, Trinity, said, “There was no way we were just going to leave him to go back to where he came from.” A local pastor helped call his mom and tell him where he was. She said she had been very worried about him and would send a bus ticket to get him back to Armenia. The team members took up an offering to pay for a hotel room to get Johan safe and away from those keeping him captive for the night until he could get onto the bus to Armenia.
This young man who was escaping a nightmare and thought he was finding a witchcraft conference ended up finding an encounter with God. The next day Johan got on a bus to go home with a new heart, a fresh start and saved from the life of a sexual slave. The pastor who helped spoke with his mom and she said, “The person who returned is not my son who lived here before. He is a new person, so different, so full of joy. He is a changed person!”
After all of the chaos leading up to this event, all of the months of work, if nothing else good would have come out of it (which it did, all kinds of great stories!) this testimony would have made it all worth the effort all on its own.
Left to Right: Trinity (visiting from Iowa), with Johan and Christian, the translator.
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27 seconds remained on the countdown clock. I frantically searched for our narrator, for our big mascot (that Alex was inside of trying not to have a heat stroke!), the kids who would play a key part in walking all of the kids through a journey of meeting the Holy Spirit. Suddenly I heard the crowd erupt “EIGHT, SEVEN, SIX”… everyone gathered at the base of the stage and our narrator, Laura, ran onto to the stage to kick off the night. The place was not full. There were several groups of kids, but based on the response from pastors beforehand we were expecting about 300 – 400 kids. At the start, there were probably about that many.
The event kicked off with the introduction of Fiel (translation: Faithful), a big dog that was going to tell the kids about a very special friend. The kids chanted “Fiel, Fiel” as he came on stage and I was thrilled at their response to his character. Fiel’s introduction was followed by a game to get the kids moving and ready to worship. Then came worship. This was one of those things that the day before was falling apart. This was the team from our church and I was very nervous it was going to be a mess because in normal Sunday services we do not have space for a live band so we use tracks. This was the first time they would be playing these songs and our singers, Juan Pablo and Marcela, were not even part of our children’s church team so they weren’t super familiar with the songs we use. However, they are AMAZING! They got on stage and started the music. The kids were jumping, singing, cheering when they’d start a new song. The energy and atmosphere in that place was electric and more and more kids were arriving.
Juan Pablo and Marcela get the crowd singing and dancing.
Members of our children’s church team dancing and singing.
Kids Singing.
View from behind the stage of the growing crowd.
As the music went on, some of the pastors and leaders came to me worried – there were no more chairs, the kids couldn’t see because many parents had come and filled the seats. We had to take a brief moment during the worship to ask the parents to go to a standing room area on the side of the stage and leave the chairs for the kids. It still filled up. We had the chairs almost completely full, kids sitting on the floor and parents standing along the side of the main area. We know for certain over 600 kids were there – those were the one accounted for by children’s pastors and leaders that had come on a bus or in a big group. That did not include hundreds who came with parents or apart from a church. One tally tells us that there were over 1300 people – 1100 kids and 200 adults – in attendance. I’m not sure what the official number is. All I know is the place was jam-packed and the kids were having a blast!
A conga line running through the crowd – a little crazy, but so fun!
The worship set I had been so worried about was just incredible! The kids sang, clapped, danced and booed when it ended. They wouldn’t be disappointed for long, though, because after another little lesson from Fiel, a very cool drama about how the Holy Spirit helps us determine good and bad came on and kept them captivated.
The first drama.
At the end of the drama came the first mini-preaching point. The leader in charge called up kids to talk about what things they would choose to NOT do with the help of the Holy Spirit. This was kind of a shocking part because as the children gave their answers, these small kids were saying things like, “I’m not going to steal. I’m not going to smoke marijuana. I’m not going to kill anyone.” Understanding the culture and the very difficult and violent backgrounds many of these kids and churches come from, these are not just distant ideas to these kids, but real life things they were saying they were going to say no to.
After that portion came another interlude by Fiel. He and the kids he was journeying with came out to talk to the kids while the stage was in transition. Next came a very special treat. We had more time of praise and worship, but this time it was an all-kids band. At one point they were singing a popular song and stopped the music and left the whole place to sing the chorus. As hundreds of kids sang out together “You are all powerful, great and majestic. You are strong, invincible and there is no one like You!” as much as I was trying to maintain directing the program, tears just began to pour from my eyes at the sweet spirit that was in that place, listening to all of those kids sing in unison with all of their hearts. I will never forget that moment!
All-kids praise band. They were great!
After the second set of praise and worship we had another quick game to get the energy out before the last drama and mini-sermon came as well as the prayer time. The drama was done by our team from our home church and it was a great story about how the Holy Spirit protects us from our enemies. At the end a character representing the Holy Spirit came through the crowd and fought the evil character. As the battle raged the children were cheering him on and when the Holy Spirit prevailed, they went nuts!
The second drama.
“The Holy Spirit is my best friend” – our representation of the Holy Spirit.
Captivated!
It was the perfect segue into our final portion, a short sermon to wrap up who the Holy Spirit is and how he is always with us, our best friend. The pastor walked the kids through the day of Pentecost and did such a wonderful job explaining to them how it affects their lives. That led the way to prayer which was beautiful. Kids all over the building stood to accept Christ into their hearts and then lots of kids came forward to pray for healing in their body. The Iowa team went through the crowd praying over every child that came forward.
Prayer time.
I received an email from one of the leaders about a little boy who came to the event. She said, “Lucas is a five-year-old child. He said, ‘When they sang the song Pour Out Your Fire, I felt like my heart was burning like a fire.’ His mother said he had been suffering with several sleepless nights because of asthma attacks. Lucas came forward when the pastor made a call for any children who were sick to come forward for prayer. He said he felt a fire in his feet as they prayed for him. His mother says the Lord healed him of asthma attacks and that night he slept peacefully the entire night!
At the end of the night we stood in awe of what God had done. All the insanity and all the doubts that we would be able to pull it off were all put to rest as we saw so many lives affected. On top of the blessing of seeing the kids having a blast and learning about God, we saw a bridge built between the various churches that had not been very eager to work together previously. At the end of the night every single one of them came to me to say they would like us all to work together again and reach more areas of the city. We’ll start working now to plan events for next year!
Finale and Goodbye
Alex as Fiel with two of our drama team members.
Reports and testimonies are still coming in, but in the next blog I will tell you the testimony that left us all stunned and in awe that night!