PRAISE!!!!!!!

My passport arrived with my Burundian Visa in it today!!!!!! My mom popped her head into my room this morning and informed me that there was a FedEx truck parked out in front of the house. My heart started pounding, I flew down the stairs, and opened the front door long before the friendly FedEx man could even knock on the door! He handed me the envelope and I hugged it like a long lost friend. =) Everything is truly, continuing to fall into place. Praise the Lord - He IS GOOD! Soli Deo Gloria

I am leaving for Burundi on Sunday, June 20th and will return August 21st. I am very excited to truly get to experience missionary life with assembly missionaries and also be involved/volunteer at the Arms of Love Mission and The Rainbow Centre Ministries that the Johnson's are involved with. The paragraph below give a bit of info about the Rainbow Centre... 

THE RAINBOW CENTRE

A God-inspired community family-strengthening centre with a focus on abandoned, HIV+ babies, age newborn to 2 years old, this 1 1/2 acre piece of property, called the Rainbow Centre, located in the heart of Bujumbura, the capitol city of Burundi, Central Africa, has been a haven to hundreds of babies and children since it opened in April 2002. We are quietly loving and strengthening sick and malnourished babies, many of whom are abandoned or orphaned because of AIDS.

A Surprising Twist in the Road...

“The heart of man plans his ways, but the Lord directs his steps”

The Lord never ceases to amaze me in how He leads and guides. After having attended the Women’s Missionary Conference this last Saturday, I sensed confirmation from the Lord that He was closing the door for me to travel to Zambia with OM. It was a bittersweet moment, for the Lord had already begun to open up a new door, which was rather unexpected (one of the elders from my church had offered to contact some of the missionaries that are affiliated with my church to see what other opportunities there might be for me in Africa). At the conference I prayed in the quiet of my heart, to the Lord, that whomever the missionaries would be, I wanted them to reply back saying that they had been praying for someone to come over. Well, later this same Saturday, I recieved an e-mail from a missionary couple, who are missionaries in Burundi, who, in fact, were praying for a volunteer to come over and help. Truly Incredible! There are many more details that have occured that make this opportunity a perfect fit. It absolutely is of the hand of the Lord; and I am overjoyed to announce that, Lord willing, I will be flying to Burundi in June.

More details to come... if you wanna see a bit of what I’ll be doing, check out their website: http://www.rainbowcentre.net