Saturday, February 28, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Looooong time since last blog
OK sis this is for you. I would like to keep my first and second born :):) Well it has been a crazy last month. I (AMANDA) had a serious seizure three weeks ago. I have been under the watch of the dorctor and my husband since then. I am doing wonderful now and have a great jump start to recovery. I was very blessed to walk out of this with no problems. The hospital and the doctors could only diagnose (A MIRACLE). SO many things happened that was only by God's hand that I could really fill this whole paper up. I am going to let my husband right about this a little more. I am able to leave the house now though for two or three hours a day. I am hoping to go back to work this next week. Thanks to everyone for all there prayers for us during this time. They were needed and heard.
The girls are doing amazing and are growing up so much! It is like a gift everyday being able to watch them grow and knowing that they are mine. It is the greatest joy unexplainable. They are little Mexicans now. They speak amazing and fit into the culture here very well, Zoe even better than well:) We found a new place by our house that is a safe haven for us. We go there on our family day(SAT.) It is called Vivieros (Nursery). It is like walking through a forest with alot of people allover. They grow all the tree for MExico in this area. After we drop our girls off at school Ross and I go and walk for about 3 mile in the mornings. This is helping beings I have not been able to do anything for the last month and a half. I have gained some weight. The tacos are just way to good here!!!!!! It is also a great time of talking and letting go of the stresses of the day. Also my husband and I are alone. Great marriage time!
I am very excited to get back to work! We have a lot to do to catch up on. I can only go a few hours a day but that is great. I miss the work. We officaly have out paper work done for MExico now. THis will help us with many different things. PLease be in prayer for the authorities above us. That they would be organized and would do all the things on their end of the playing field. We have a vision of how this organization could be also the work ethic and faith to get this done. It is all in God's hands. Also if you could pray for us to understand and hear God's timing for this ministry.
We are getting so excited to go home this summer for furlogh! We will be busy but for the largest part but mostly we will be with family and friends. Our niece is coming home with us in Aug. I am so excited and excited again. We are wanting to drive home in Aug. (ND to Mexico City:%)We know crazy but it would really be nice to have a vehicle down here. We want to by a van in the states and drive it down. This would help out so much.
OK Well I will go now. I need to pick up my princesses up from school. SIS hope this will hold you over till the nest one:) Blessings and love to all! AMANDA
The girls are doing amazing and are growing up so much! It is like a gift everyday being able to watch them grow and knowing that they are mine. It is the greatest joy unexplainable. They are little Mexicans now. They speak amazing and fit into the culture here very well, Zoe even better than well:) We found a new place by our house that is a safe haven for us. We go there on our family day(SAT.) It is called Vivieros (Nursery). It is like walking through a forest with alot of people allover. They grow all the tree for MExico in this area. After we drop our girls off at school Ross and I go and walk for about 3 mile in the mornings. This is helping beings I have not been able to do anything for the last month and a half. I have gained some weight. The tacos are just way to good here!!!!!! It is also a great time of talking and letting go of the stresses of the day. Also my husband and I are alone. Great marriage time!
I am very excited to get back to work! We have a lot to do to catch up on. I can only go a few hours a day but that is great. I miss the work. We officaly have out paper work done for MExico now. THis will help us with many different things. PLease be in prayer for the authorities above us. That they would be organized and would do all the things on their end of the playing field. We have a vision of how this organization could be also the work ethic and faith to get this done. It is all in God's hands. Also if you could pray for us to understand and hear God's timing for this ministry.
We are getting so excited to go home this summer for furlogh! We will be busy but for the largest part but mostly we will be with family and friends. Our niece is coming home with us in Aug. I am so excited and excited again. We are wanting to drive home in Aug. (ND to Mexico City:%)We know crazy but it would really be nice to have a vehicle down here. We want to by a van in the states and drive it down. This would help out so much.
OK Well I will go now. I need to pick up my princesses up from school. SIS hope this will hold you over till the nest one:) Blessings and love to all! AMANDA
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Friday, March 23, 2007
Update - Newsletter
Your Servants At Work -
The Johnston’s Family Update
And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, who will go for us, and whom will I send? Then I said, “Here am I send me” and He said, “GO” Isaiah 6:8-9a
Well I am sure that you all have been wondering what we have been doing here at Bethany College of Missions. We have been diving into the Word of God like never before. God has been pushing us, teaching us and growing our relationship daily. We couldn’t go a day without the Holy Spirits leading, guidance and protection. We have really been praying about what the next steps in our lives are, and we have had a specific call from God placed on us for the First Nations Natives of Ontario, Canada. We were blessed to be able to go spend a week up in Thunder Bay working on the streets with an Eagles Cry Ministry. God had been pushing us to go work with the First Nations Natives before our time spent working up there. We had been really pursuing God about what His plan was for our lives, and where He wanted us to go. Then He opened the door for us to go up to the Bay.
God had given us both the idea of starting a life skills center. Where we would teach people the basics of life and also about the Lord. We had been praying for some sort of building, and opportunity for this to be accomplished. Sky and Angie Hedrick, who is the head of An Eagles Cry Ministry, was also praying for a church to reach out to the broken and abused people of this area. Since we have left the Bay in November there has been a building donated to the ministry.
God gave our ministry this building, and now He is preparing us for some of what we are about to step into. Thunder Bay is an area of Canada that has the highest unemployment rate and the highest Aids and Hepatitis cases in the entire country of Canada. There is a large amount of drug use, prostitution, child abuse, spousal abuse, and everything else that surrounds that whole evil scene. Our vision is to go and help people to learn the basics of life. The things most of us learn from family living. We will teach them how to cook and clean, how to take care of their children and how to balance a checkbook plus more. We want to help get parents out of drug houses, off the streets, and back into society as upstanding citizens. As someone that can hold their head up high, not by handouts but by an honest hard working living. “A hand up not a hand out”
Most of these people were taken from their families at a very young age to go to boarding schools that showed them nothing but hurt and shame. We want to show them the restoration that God can give them, and also restore their dignity. Also we want to give them an idea of what a Christian family can look like. (Please be in prayer with us so that we can fulfill this calling). We need most of all to show them the love of a Savior that died so that they no longer have to live in a lifestyle of substance, physical and mental abuse.
On the second floor of the building that was given to the ministry are apartments that we are praying to the Lord, as a ministry team, to see the use He has for them. We are excited to get to Thunder Bay, and will keep you all updated as things come closer to us finishing our year at Bethany College of Missions.
We also have applied to International Ministerial Fellowship (www.i-m-f.org), and we are awaiting an answer from them. Once we are accepted we will have a more definite timeline to work with.
If you would like to partner with us in anyway please contact us at:
rossandmandy@yahoo.com
Ross and Mandy Johnston
P.O. Box 1323
Williston, ND 58801
701-570-3253.
We are also online at http://rossandmandy.blogspot.com
The Johnston’s Family Update
And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, who will go for us, and whom will I send? Then I said, “Here am I send me” and He said, “GO” Isaiah 6:8-9a
Well I am sure that you all have been wondering what we have been doing here at Bethany College of Missions. We have been diving into the Word of God like never before. God has been pushing us, teaching us and growing our relationship daily. We couldn’t go a day without the Holy Spirits leading, guidance and protection. We have really been praying about what the next steps in our lives are, and we have had a specific call from God placed on us for the First Nations Natives of Ontario, Canada. We were blessed to be able to go spend a week up in Thunder Bay working on the streets with an Eagles Cry Ministry. God had been pushing us to go work with the First Nations Natives before our time spent working up there. We had been really pursuing God about what His plan was for our lives, and where He wanted us to go. Then He opened the door for us to go up to the Bay.
God had given us both the idea of starting a life skills center. Where we would teach people the basics of life and also about the Lord. We had been praying for some sort of building, and opportunity for this to be accomplished. Sky and Angie Hedrick, who is the head of An Eagles Cry Ministry, was also praying for a church to reach out to the broken and abused people of this area. Since we have left the Bay in November there has been a building donated to the ministry.
God gave our ministry this building, and now He is preparing us for some of what we are about to step into. Thunder Bay is an area of Canada that has the highest unemployment rate and the highest Aids and Hepatitis cases in the entire country of Canada. There is a large amount of drug use, prostitution, child abuse, spousal abuse, and everything else that surrounds that whole evil scene. Our vision is to go and help people to learn the basics of life. The things most of us learn from family living. We will teach them how to cook and clean, how to take care of their children and how to balance a checkbook plus more. We want to help get parents out of drug houses, off the streets, and back into society as upstanding citizens. As someone that can hold their head up high, not by handouts but by an honest hard working living. “A hand up not a hand out”
Most of these people were taken from their families at a very young age to go to boarding schools that showed them nothing but hurt and shame. We want to show them the restoration that God can give them, and also restore their dignity. Also we want to give them an idea of what a Christian family can look like. (Please be in prayer with us so that we can fulfill this calling). We need most of all to show them the love of a Savior that died so that they no longer have to live in a lifestyle of substance, physical and mental abuse.
On the second floor of the building that was given to the ministry are apartments that we are praying to the Lord, as a ministry team, to see the use He has for them. We are excited to get to Thunder Bay, and will keep you all updated as things come closer to us finishing our year at Bethany College of Missions.
We also have applied to International Ministerial Fellowship (www.i-m-f.org), and we are awaiting an answer from them. Once we are accepted we will have a more definite timeline to work with.
If you would like to partner with us in anyway please contact us at:
rossandmandy@yahoo.com
Ross and Mandy Johnston
P.O. Box 1323
Williston, ND 58801
701-570-3253.
We are also online at http://rossandmandy.blogspot.com
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