wanted to use it to help out with my trip to China. However, they wanted to first call pastor Ramon Ruiz because they knew that the San Pedro church in Monterrey also needed it.  So, they called him right away and told him that they wanted to use it for my trip to China and he immediately said yes and did not even ask any questions.  Then he told them that he was planning to take up an offering that night for me too.  He also told them that his daughter Pricila (which I am friends with) was trying to help out too at the COG (7th day) national youth conference in Monterrey that was going on this last week.  She ended up raising about $150 dollars there.  The San Pedro church that night gave something like $50 during the offering for me.  My other friend Monica Aranda from Monterrey gave me another $50.  After talking with my sister in Monterrey I called my friends Jenny and James Oliva-Nyatangi in Chicago to tell them the good news.  Then they told me that them had also collected $300 from within there family some friends. They also said that they still have some more money coming that her sister and brother-in-law had told them they were going to give.  My mom and step-dad gave me $300 of their tithe that they regularly support me with when I talked with them.

The reason I am telling you all this is because I want to share with you how God provides in an amazing and sometimes miraculous ways.  I went from having only $250 for my trip on day to having $2100 the next day.  God is awesome!  And he deserves all the credit, because we are only faithful service doing his will.  But I do want to thank everyone that has given to support this work that God is doing through me.  I thank you all for your obedient heart before God.  And for having spiritual ears that hear God’s voice when he puts something on your heart to do.  I feel humbled to be the one that is on the receiving end, but very thankful too.

Poor little Mexican girl miraculously starts speaking perfect Chinese!  Believe it or not it is true.  The director of the school here first shared with me about Patti’s testimony after some anonymous mystery man visited the office here at the school and paid off all her tuition and all of the money she needed for her trip to China.  This guy gave the director over $30,000 pesos (about $3,000 US dollars) in cash and said it was specifically for Patti.  She does not know how he was and he did not tell the director who he was either, so it is all very mysterious.  So after this happened the director shared with me her testimony. Then I asked some of the others here about it and they all said basically the same thing and about how crazy it all was.  Then finally I talked with her personally to double check the facts.  So this is what happened.  Last year before she was a student she came to the Thursday night community outreach service that the school calls “Macedonian Night” which is in reference to Acts 16:9-10 where it says, “And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing there, urging him and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” 10And when Paul had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go on into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.”  

So, each week the students and staff of the school focus on a different country, and pray for it during the service.  It is a time to get the community involved in what is going on here, and give them a chance to help other countries through their prayers.  So, during the service while everyone was singing and others were praying she started to speech in a different language.  Then someone recognized that it was Mandarin Chinese.  For the rest of the night she couldn’t speak Spanish and when people

and phrases.  But that she is praying that God will do the same thing again while we are in China, but also so she can understand Chinese too. So, I am thinking it would be amazing to witness a poor little Mexican girl sharing the gospel in perfect Chinese.  I have a feeling it will happen during your trip to China in three weeks from now.  But God will do what he wants.

Just in case your wandering I have never heard anyone her student or staff speak in “tongues” or any other language.  “With God there is no such thing as impossible.  With out God there is no end to what is impossible.” That is a famous quote by me.  *chuckle*  So, God is truly working in powerful ways, and I expect him to do even more amazing things during the next 2 months.

I have come to the conclusion that God gives us spiritual gifts as tools for him to be able to do impossible things for his Glory and purpose.  For His glory not ours, to accomplish his purpose not ours.  God does not serve us we serve him.  And if we do not have a heart to serve him, why would he give us gifts or tools to just to have them rot and go to waste.  We all have gifts.  Some are bigger and more powerful then others, but they are all to be used for God’s purpose.  If we don’t use those tools God will take them away and give them to someone that will be faithful to use them the way they are designed to be used.  So, let’s be faithful with all God has given us, and listen for his instructions even if it is a little thing and he will continually start to give us more and more powerful tools and tasks as we become experienced enough to use them safely and do things properly to build up his kingdom.  But not to build it up the way we think is best, but in the way God tells us to build it.   He has the plans and blueprints we just do what we are told to do accomplish those plans.  And the end result will be something unimaginably beautiful great that you can say you had a small part in building.  I think that is why Jesus was a carpenter.