All of our ministries are wrapping up here in Cochabamba, we said our final goodbyes to Casa de Amistad, Casa de Amor, and I taught my last day of classes for the missionary kids yesterday. Today is our last day of baby washing and the last youth service in Kara Kara. Tomorrow is our last day of church in Kara Kara. Next week we´ll have one last ministry opportunity to do door to door evangelism in Kara Kara and then we´ll have debrief monday through wednesday, cleaning up and packing thursday/friday and hanging out with the CED students and missionaries we´ve grown to love and then Friday night we´ll leave Cochabamba…
It doesn´t feel like we´ve spent two months here, and I don´t even see these two months as a ¨trip¨, but I lived life here for two months. God abundantly blessed us here in Cochabamba with a kitchen to cook and (sometimes) warm water for showers and bunk beds etc etc etc….God has used these two months to reveal things to me that I probably would have missed in my comfortable home in Raleigh or at school in Greenville. God has developed in me a heart for the nations and the desire to live abroad and be in community with people- after college. He has stirred up a new passion in me for art and how its theraputic and spiritual and how it can change someone´s circumstances. He has used these two months to reveal to me His spirit in new ways I´ve never encountered, which has given me a healthy fear of the Lord- because He is the creator of the universe and is all powerful. He has used these two months and this community to reveal to me things about my identity and that I am a child of God and that is where my value comes. He has used these two months to stir a passion in me for women in the sex trade and has really given me a desire to go to Asia next summer and work with women getting out of prostitution. God has used these two months to bless me with spiritual gifts that edify the community but also a time of devotion to get in His word and really desire to know His heart through the bible.
These are just some of the things God has completely wrecked in my life in an amazing way…so although I´m so sad to leave Cochabamba and the thought of not living with my 7 sisters here is heart breaking…I´m just getting started. So my time in cochabamba is winding down, God is starting up passions in me and putting burdens on my heart that I am so excited to pursue when I return home.
Some one asked me here if I was homesick and I said no- I miss my parents and my friends….but God is evolving my heart to that my only home is with Him. He has given me a heart for the nations a heart for other cultures and a deeper heart and love and reverance for Him.
Praise the Lord!
