OUCH!!!!

My dear friends on mission. This has been quite a rough week. I had spinal fusion surgery on the 26th and I will be "going off the grid" for a while. Please check back in a week or so where we will begin to discuss the process for the on-line holiday auction. Two books that I have written will be on sale on the sight and 60% of the proceeds of the books will go to The Freedom Project. But until then, I am going to take a very strong pain pill and go to bed.

Late post, sorry.

I said I would update the next day but that did not happen. Sorry. I am so excited about the things that we are already doing with the freedom project. We are working on grants and on-line auctions. All things that can be done here, from home. That is a huge blessing. I had planned on going to Africa to meet with officials from different ministries to invite them to join me in anyway they would feel comfortable. More accurately, I was going to ask to join them. I found out that I will have to have a spinal fusion next week and will have a very long time recovering. While I am very frustrated that I will not be going to Africa, I know that God has a plan and that I am not alone in this ministry. So, I will be here, with lots of time to complete grant applications and research. It will be a minimum of 18 months before I can fly that long again. Please pray for the ministry and for all who will be helping in the next few years. I do not want any of this to derail what God is doing and that means I have to trust Him more and more and depend on Him totally. I know He was leading me but I was holding too tightly to the controls. I love God's timing and know that all thing work together for the good and all of this is going to be good. Having said that, I do not think I will ever complain about needing more time to complete grant applications. God bless you all for caring about the hurting in Africa.

Tomorrow

This has been a long week. Satan is throwing up road blocks. I am very tired right now but tomorrow I will post about things that are happening and what it means to the ministry. I am so excited about The Freedom Project!!!!!!!!!!! I know God is the author of this project and He is in it all. Nothing I going to stop this project. I pray that your passion grows. Come back tomorrow.

Look at the faces in this picture. Statistics say that 4 of them have AIDS right now and are not being treated. God is bigger than numbers but I also believe He gives us these numbers as a call to action. They need a home a treatment and love. You can help make that happen. Please be in prayers about how that can happen and the role you are meant to play.

New Logo is Here!

The logo for the Freedom Project is here and I love it. LA Associate Ad Agency did a great job with the design. You can see more of their work at http://www.laassociatesadagency.com/. The project is off to a great start. We have already talked to someone about building options. Do we build one center or do we help improve the ministry centers that are in place helping women and children and providing free health care and education. No matter what, we will see the vision through that refugee women will be taught a trade and house. Resident and community children will given free education and health care and we will have a special program for orphans. Please come back and check often. Thanks again, Lynn for the great design work.

Three Important Points

First, this project is no small thing for my ministry to take on, in fact it is impossible but, "With me this is impossible, with God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26. Second, a new a very precious friend pointed out this verse as my passion in this project and she was right, "Pure and undefiled religion before your Father is this: to visit the orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world." Please, Lord give me the strength to so this. Finally, this a picture I saw on a Facebook page of someone who has ministered in the nation we want to build The Freedom Center in. How can you turn away your heart, your love and your compassion from this little face. Please come back and look over and over. New things will be added every few days and soon we will be selling books and holding holiday auctions to raise money to make the The Freedom Center a reality.

So What is the Big Freedom Project???

Several years ago I began a ministry and had a vision (not the supernatural kind) but an idea, that I believe God planted in my mind. It was that of a Center that would house women and children that were refugees or victims of extreme poverty. The Center would house a few women and their children and teach the women a trade and educate the children. That vision has expanded to educate not only the resident children but other children in the area. The Freedom Center will also have a clinic that is dedicated to the care of those who reside at the Freedom Center but also provide free or discounted basic health care to the people that live around the Center.

While teaching the women a trade, we will sell the things they make here in the US and put all of that money in a trust for each women so that when she moves out with her children she will not only have a skill/trade but will have a little bit of money to start out with. Though the women will have a generous time to live at the home before they will be integrated into life on their own, their children will be permitted to finish their education at the Freedom School.

This is a HUGE undertaking for my ministry and we are just beginning to put the vision on paper. The next step will be to work with the government of the nation we wish to build the Center (we are keeping that quiet for now, just know it will be in Africa). We will begin to hold fund raisers and apply for grants. This task is my ministry's Everest. But with God all things are possible and as I write this today with thoughts of budgets and red tape and millions of dollars it all seems impossible but, God assures me it is not. Several fund raisers we will do through this blog like selling donated products in time for Christmas, Art sales, book sales, etc. Other fund raisers will take place in communities around the country. Please come back soon to see our logo and more information on The Freedom Project.