Hello! I suppose I should start this blog with an introduction; My name is Heather and I've grown up in a tiny town in Montana my whole life. The last three years I've spent attending bible school in Dallas, TX. Can I just tell you, "I am not a city girl." Haha, I LOVE the mountains! The fresh air! The Hiking, the backpacking, the mountain biking! Whoo!! But, I knew Dallas was where God had me at that moment in time.
In the summer of '08 I felt led to go with Amazon Xpeditions to the Amazon for my summer outreach program at CFNI. I didn't want to go. I told God, "I want to go somewhere like Europe, to travel, eat good foods, drink tea and do worship ministry." But, I knew that I was supposed to go to the Amazon. The Whole while leading up to the trip I was not excited, I still didn't want to go. I knew it would be extremely hot, humid, full of bugs and dirty water. Little did I know just how life changing this trip was going to be! It would be full of challenges, full of painful experiences both physically and emotionally, but God had a plan.
God had called me there for that moment, that season in my life, to play and swing the little children around; to teach them Sunday school songs in English; to just hold them and love them; to dig and build a cistern to hold drinking water; to travel the Amazon river for days to reach the unreached; to build a school where there were none; to show them the love of Jesus!
The children in Leticia, Colombia stole my heart. My vision and desire is to raise those children in the Word of God; to tach them the things of God that they may be grounded deep in the Lord, and that they would reach out to their own people.
Just recently I graduated from the Advanced School of Missions at CFNI, completing my three month internship in Botswana, Africa. It was absolutely AMAZING and such a learning experience.
Now, I finally headed back to the Amazon! I've been home for the past two weeks visiting family and enjoying beautiful Montana. I don't know how long I'll be in the Amazon for, but i know that God's called me there at this season in my life and I'll be there serving in any and every way I can, until He's will is complete for me there.
To be continued...
