Our God is a mighty refuge, a healer and a faithful father. Yesterday we got to taste the mission of Beginning of Life; today we got to actually see the work at hand.
After our overwhelming day yesterday our team got to spend time talking through what we were feeling. (Being an all girls team, we have lots of feelings) But through our conversation we got to experience the love of the Lord and identify the places that God is working in the lives of our team. We know that God has picked us all individually to partake in his Kingdom work in Moldova. Truth is invading our hearts.
Today we went into the schools where Beginning of Life programs and provides lessons about the dangers of trafficking, but they also teach children to dream, and to become passionate people. Our job was to be another voice to the teenagers, to help teach them how to dream and to see the importance of having healthy relationships, to unveil the truth about sexuality and to teach about the destruction of violence.
People gawk at the cluster of chatty American girls sauntering all over Moldova, in the schools it was no different. We split up in two different groups. Most of the group went to help out in 1st grade classrooms. While we were in the classrooms, we helped to teach the kids how to make friendship bracelets. Our God delivered us and thanks to Brian's ability to speak Russian fluently, we were able to come up with a lesson for the kids to learn. While they were learning how to make their friendship bracelets, we would pull them out individually or by pairs to come dress up in stereotypical Tennessean garb. For the first graders, the Goodwill overalls, flannel shirt and Farm Bureau trucker hat, swallowed them but they loved every second of it. When we grabbed them by pairs, they even began to look like mini American Gothic look-a-likes!
While that was happening three of our group members spent time talking to the teens about the more "taboo" issues. They opened the door for God to speak through them. They opened their mouths and let God's words flow through them by using their stories to impact the lives of hundreds of Moldovan teenagers. We talked about our experiences and got real with the teens, helping them to understand the importance of healthy relationships and what those look like, violence and dreams and goals. It was an incredibly special opportunity for us to partake in.
Three more of our girls got to spend time with the single mother support group that is a part of the Beginning of Life organization. They taught them how to make felt pin flowers and t-shirt necklaces/ headbands. They got to spend time and attention on some of the needy and hopeless women in Moldova.
Tonight we met with the Grace House again. A few of us shared our testimonies with the girls in the house. God moved in big ways, showing us that he is alive all around the world.
Although we don't speak their language, we are confident in the power of the Lord that lives in us. We are confident in his power and that he speaks through us, despite the language barrier. We serve an incredibly faithful father who blesses all that we do. He encourages our dreams and sets us free of our past. In Him we are new.
After our overwhelming day yesterday our team got to spend time talking through what we were feeling. (Being an all girls team, we have lots of feelings) But through our conversation we got to experience the love of the Lord and identify the places that God is working in the lives of our team. We know that God has picked us all individually to partake in his Kingdom work in Moldova. Truth is invading our hearts.
Today we went into the schools where Beginning of Life programs and provides lessons about the dangers of trafficking, but they also teach children to dream, and to become passionate people. Our job was to be another voice to the teenagers, to help teach them how to dream and to see the importance of having healthy relationships, to unveil the truth about sexuality and to teach about the destruction of violence.
People gawk at the cluster of chatty American girls sauntering all over Moldova, in the schools it was no different. We split up in two different groups. Most of the group went to help out in 1st grade classrooms. While we were in the classrooms, we helped to teach the kids how to make friendship bracelets. Our God delivered us and thanks to Brian's ability to speak Russian fluently, we were able to come up with a lesson for the kids to learn. While they were learning how to make their friendship bracelets, we would pull them out individually or by pairs to come dress up in stereotypical Tennessean garb. For the first graders, the Goodwill overalls, flannel shirt and Farm Bureau trucker hat, swallowed them but they loved every second of it. When we grabbed them by pairs, they even began to look like mini American Gothic look-a-likes!
While that was happening three of our group members spent time talking to the teens about the more "taboo" issues. They opened the door for God to speak through them. They opened their mouths and let God's words flow through them by using their stories to impact the lives of hundreds of Moldovan teenagers. We talked about our experiences and got real with the teens, helping them to understand the importance of healthy relationships and what those look like, violence and dreams and goals. It was an incredibly special opportunity for us to partake in.
Three more of our girls got to spend time with the single mother support group that is a part of the Beginning of Life organization. They taught them how to make felt pin flowers and t-shirt necklaces/ headbands. They got to spend time and attention on some of the needy and hopeless women in Moldova.
Tonight we met with the Grace House again. A few of us shared our testimonies with the girls in the house. God moved in big ways, showing us that he is alive all around the world.
Although we don't speak their language, we are confident in the power of the Lord that lives in us. We are confident in his power and that he speaks through us, despite the language barrier. We serve an incredibly faithful father who blesses all that we do. He encourages our dreams and sets us free of our past. In Him we are new.
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