I Did Not Feel Like My Fountain Was On

Today has been a very long day. I only got few hours of sleep, because I am so determed to unpack and have my house organized. I took the kids to school (they need to be at school by 7:30 am). After driving about twenty minutes, Jordan started saying she was going to "throw up", I thought she was just saying that because she didn't want to go to school, so I said: Jordan, you are fine. Well, few minutes later, she did throw up all over her close and the car seat. At that point I was a little stressed, so I decied to drop Eben off at school, and drive about 30 min back home to take care of Jordan. Needless to say. I felt terrible for thinking she was not really sick.

We got home and after giving her a shower and taking care of her, she felt fine. I still needed to clean up the mess.

By now, my plans for the day were changing, but I still had to go to the grocery store, make phone calls to this guy to come and spray our house for the third time(very normal in Brazil), and also, call an eletrician to come fix few things around the house.

Garo was taking care of Jordan, working on his report and getting our gas conneted to our stove, all that,before he had to go to Portuguese Class. So, as you can tell, a very busy day.

When Garo left to class, I kept cleaning and unpacking boxes. Meanwhile, the guy came in to spray the house. We started talking and he started telling me how he had had all his tools stolen over the weekend,and that he was feeling very discouraged, because that is how he makes money to help support his family. I felt really bad hearing him talking and I asked if me and the kids could pray for him. All of the sudden, I forgot about all I had to do, and got so mad with the enemy for doing this to this hard-working man. After encouragin him, he said he was feeling better and had faith that God was going to turn this situation around. We are believing for a miracle for this man.

After he left, the eletrician came in, and Garo got back from Portuguese Class. So, they were talking and working together and at the end of the evening, the eletrician was having dinner with us and we were sharing about the Lord and His goodness.

I started thinking about a verse that a friend sent me this week that truly blessed me and I hope it will bless you too.

"for with You is the fountain of life;
in your light we see light." ps. 36:9

The Lord spoke to me and said : If you are always available, I will always make my fountain in you spring forth life.

I felt so honored that even though, we were not out to minister, the Lord brought two people in side of our home and showed us, once again, that if we are available to Him, our fountain will be on, even when we don't feel like it.

My encouragement to you is, be available to the Lord at ALL time, giving Him permission to come any time of the day, any where and use you. It is such an awesome feeling! At the end of the day it is ALL ABOUT HIM!

Love you all! Thanks for sharing this journey with us!

PS. We had delicious spagetti for dinner tonight.

God always takes care of us

Hello dear friends!

Well, as you all know we are getting settle into our new home in Brazil. It is a very exciting time for us, because now we can cook, watch a movie, and have all our books to read with us.

We were in need to buy a stove, because we didn't bring one from the US. We looked for stoves in several stores and the prices were a bit higher than what we could afford, so we felt we needed to wait for few days, not really knowing what we were waiting for. So, yesterday we got a call from a friend saying that she had a friend that not only was selling an used oven, but was also selling sofas and chairs. Things we were also needing.

We went to take a look on the things for sale and we were so happy that we got a stove and chairs for a really good deal. God takes care of us, even when things are not considered "that important or spiritual".

Now, for you to get the full picture. Here in Campinas there are not many used furniture stores, because things are so expensive that when people buy something they keep it until it brakes down beyond repair. So, finding furniture that is about 15years old in good condition for a good price is the closer you can get of a miracle on the furniture world.

I would like to encourage you today to wait on the Lord, even when it dosen't make much sense, and you look around and think: I should be looking for something. I should be moving around. Stop and wait because the ONE who moves at the speed of light is moving things for you.

Today we have more unpacking to do and "Thanks Giving Dinner" plans to make. Oh yeah, the Nargiz kitchen is back in business!

Starting to Feel like Home

Our container got here and we are SO excited!!!!!!! I can't even begin to tell how happy we all are that we can finally, after two and a half months, get our belongins into our house. Our kids were so happy to be reunited with their toys. It was like Christmas!!!

A BIG thanks to ALL of our dear friends and family who had prayed with us for the release of our stuff. We sure appreciate you standing with us on this.

We had a super fun day yesterday. We celebrated Mrs. Dorris Johnson's and Pr. Josue's Birthdays. For some of you who don't know them. Mrs. Johnson, or Gradma Dorris(like our kids call her), is an incredible woman, who the Lord has used to impact lives of milions in Brazil and around the world. Her and her husband Bernard Johnson moved to Brazil as missionaries in the early 50's, and have had a tremendous ministry in this Country. She turned 79 years old and amazes me how she keeps a busy schedulle of ministry, serving the body of Chist. She never stops.Such an inspiration.
Pr. Josue, is the vice-president of the "Ministerio Assembleia de Deus no Braz". A large group of Assemblies of God churches in Sao Paulo. He is also the Business and Administrater of EETAD. He turned 70 years old. Also a man that has impacted many lives in Brazil.
At the birthday celebration, were most of the American Missionaries who are part of our fellowship, friends and families, as well as all EETAD Staff. We gather together to celebrate and honor these great man e woman of God. We had a great time.

Now, we are unpacking many, many boxes and the house is coming along so well. I promise I will have pictures soon.

This week my dear friend Claudia Walker is picking up the kids from school for me, which is a great help, and the kids love spending time with aunt Claudia, because she is so much fun!

For all of you who have prayed for our transition in Brazil, please take a moment to say a prayer for our family, that we will continue to work through this transition time, and that Eben & Jordan will have fun in the process.

We can feel your prayers unlocking doors and stabelishing His Kingdom in Brazil. You are as much part of this mission from home(US), as we are from the field. Thanks a lot.

Jordania

God's Agenda is Perfect - Divine Appointments

We have met some pretty amazing people in Brazil. Some of them, the world may never hear about. They are not on Facebook overinflating "up dates" about their ministries, but for sure these world changers are making a real difference in the lives of people, with a fruit that is remaining.

Among the people we met, is a young couple who have worked in the Amazon Rain Forest.They have touched my heart by their willingness to do God's work. This couple goes into the Amazon for weeks at the time in search of unreached indian tribes to share the Gospel. God is doing amazing things in the Amazon.

Garo was invited to come along with him next year and do the very first worship Jesus experience that these tribes have ever had. We are so looking forward to that, and are humbled that the Lord would give us such an opportunity. Every tribe and every Nation will bound down and worship Him!


Last week I had a meeting with our landlord to talk about few things related to our rent. We have found out that none of the neighbors like Mrs.Jussara. Let's put this way. She is not an easy person to deal with.

During our meeting Mrs. Jussara said that she was having some family problems. She has a niece named Laina, who is 25yrs old and has two daughters (3 & 5 yrs old). Laina has left home because of drugs abondoning her two daughters with the gradmother. The family could not find Laina and wasn't sure what had happened to her.

I asked if we (Hailey, Beth and I) could pray for her. She said yes.
When we prayed, we asked the Holy Spirit to touch Laina wherever she was at that moment and caused her to come back home. We prayed for her deliverence from drugs, and that she would encounter Jesus.

Well, Mrs. Jussara is a newage person and at the end of our prayer, she wanted to know why she could feel so much power while we were praying. I explained to her, that was because of the name of Jesus.

Two days later, I got several emails from Mrs. Jussara. She said that after our meeting, her sister had called her to let her know, that her niece Laina, had just called home asking for her daughters. Her sister also said that she was very happy to hear her daughter's voice again and couldn't believe she was coming back home. I cried just picturing that mother's relief. Mrs. Jussara told her sister that we had just finished praying for Laina.

Well, Mrs. Jussara, was also puzzled about what had happened, and now she wanted to know how could she pray like that, and what power is that, that caused her niece to respond immediately to our prayers.

Now, I've been talking to her about Jesus and believe the Lord has a special plan for this family. Mrs. Jussara wants to start going to church with us. Halelluia!!!

We are so happy to be in Brazil, and can't wait for all that is going to unfold with time. To God be all the glory.

We are Humbled to serve Him.

Our Life in Brazil

Well, we've been here now for about two months and at times it feels like we just arrived and at times it feels like we've been here for ever.

When we first arrived we stayed in Pindamonhangaba(Don't try to pronounce it, its too hard, even for me a native of Brazil. Lol). We had a wonderful time there with our good friends and part of our missionary family. But, we felt the Lord was guiding us to move to the city of Campinas, which is about and hour and a half away from Sao Paulo City.

We have been working hard on settling in. Getting our family on a "rotine". Despite the challenges, Brazil is an amazing place to be and we know God has called us here for "such a time as this". We are excited about what is coming ahead of us as a family.

The kids started school two weeks ago and they are loving it! They can already speak a little portuguese just in this short time they've been here. We know soon they will be fluent in Portuguese as well.

We are staying at one of our AG Bible Colleges here in Campinas. It is a beautiful campus and every day when I am praying I ask the Lord to inspire us more and more to do amazing things for Him.

This Bible College (EETAD) was found by Dr. Bernard Johnson. An American Evangelist that God used in a big way with signs and wonders in Brazil in the past. Now, his son directs the Bible College and the work continues strong. We are so blessed and honored to be apart of this family fellowship.

We rented a house, but haven't yet moved in to it. We are waiting for our container to get here with our belongings from America. I hope we can move into our house in a couple of days.

I do have great things to share with you about some divine appointments we have had here. It's coming soon. Love you all! Pictures will come soon.