As I told her about how Jesus loves her and wanted her as His child, the Holy Spirit began to flood my heart, overwhelming it with His love. Cindy was hearing the story for the first time and I felt like I was as well. Cindy became a family member that night…it was awesome! She [...]
Encouragement is an awesome thing. I love to encourage other people and I love when others encourage me. This past week I received quite a bit of encouragement. One of my former students came to visit me this past weekend, she is the first student that I have seen from last year. Most of you [...]
Why am I so blessed? I'm not sure, but I know that I am. To be able to live in this country and tell the people here of the Hope, the Truth and the Life is so cool. This past week has been amazing! On Monday during fellowship while singing “Mighty to Save” the Father [...]
It has been a crazy week….so much has happened in life. For starters today is Mid-Autumn Festival, which means that I have now eaten plenty of moon cakes that are not so great and will be eating much more in the near future tonight. Also, last Saturday Grey and I went out with some students [...]
Bikes are EVERYWHERE…cars are EVERYWHERE…the dangers of riding your bike in this country are great. Every time I ride my bike I almost get in at least 3 or 4 wrecks…I'm telling you they drive like crazy mad people! However, I LOVE riding my bike here…it's such a rush! So yesterday I had to buy [...]
So the ambassador of Algeria looked at me from across the table and said, “See Cherie, this is how you and I are the same, we both care a lot about poor people and seeing them rise above their poverty.” Now you might be wandering, “What is Cherie doing sitting across the table from the [...]
20 minutes and they would be here. The apartment was cleaned, fruit salad made, coffee brewing and I was ready. It had been 4 days since arriving back here and it was so wonderful to be back home. The phone rang and I knew that it was time to go meet them down at the [...]
