Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Haiti Trip


Dear Friends and Family,

I hope that God is doing as many wonderful things in your life as He is in mine. I am having a wonderful year, and feeling God's will to do more for the world around me.

I want to share with you a challenging ministry opportunity that God has presented to me. In July, God has offered me the opportunity to travel to Port Au Prince, Haiti with a group from Lifesong church. This seven day missions trip will be reaching out and spreading the gospel to the people while helping to provide medical supplies, water/food and love! There is also a vision to help rebuild an orphanage.

While God has opened up a door for me to develop a greater heart of compassion for his people around the world, the exciting part is that you will be able to share in this compassion in several ways. First, you can help pray for me and my fellow team members. We will need prayers that God will prepare us for our visit and bless our efforts as we minister. We will also need prayers that our financial needs will be met. At this time we will need about $1500 per person to attend this trip and that is quite a challenge!

Another way you can help be invloved is to provide that financial support. Would you consider supporting me with a small donation? If you feel led to contribute please click on the "donate" button at the end of this blog entry and be assured that your 100% donation will be used to help send myself and others on this mission trip. I need to raise the money by June 30th in order to attend this trip. Whether you feel led to contribute financially, through prayer, or both, all your support is appreciated!

I look forward to doing God's work and sharing with you how God worked through our team when I return home in July.


Thank you and God Bless,
Caley England












Monday, April 12, 2010

It's Been Awhile!

It's been awhile since my last post and so many things are going on, so I thought an update was long overdue....We have finally gotten involved in church and are absolutely loving it! I am going to my third ladies bible study and I have made so many great friendships there, it's just awesome! Mondays have now become a day that I look forward to with anticipation and most people don't say that about Mondays, LOL!!
David has joined a mens bible study and he is enjoying that as well. He speaks to so many people at church now and it's exciting to see his love for church again! We've also joined a lifegroup that we really enjoy. We're in the process of partnering with Lifesong church which is very exciting for us because we finally have a church to call home and it feels amazing!
The girls are involved in Sunday school and they absolutely love it which makes us very proud parents! Taylor gave her heart to Jesus about a month ago and it was inspiring...Hannah is sure to follow and we thank God for our precious girls who now have a heart for Jesus!

In the last bible study I did, I really felt God calling me to obey his will for my life and to throw fear right out the window and I feel like I am finally able to do that. A few months ago, our pastor mentioned our church being involved in a future mission trip to Haiti for earthquake relief and from that moment, I couldn't get the idea out of my head or heart. I knew God was calling me to be a part of it and even though I've never had a desire to do any kind of mission work, I knew this mission trip would be a catalyst for change. It will be life changing and I can't describe the feeling, but I think you just know when God has called you to do something and when you're walking hand in hand with him, you're ready, willing and able to give it all up to obey that call. I've finally come to that place in my life and in June I will be going with a team from our church to Port Au Prince Haiti, to help rebuild, pass out much needed supplies and love on the people of Haiti. I am ready to serve my God!

There are just so many different ways that God is blessing our family right now that I am in awe of him and it just grows me even closer to the person he created me to be and I couldn't be more excited about that. When God is the center of your life, everything else just falls into place the way it was intended to...God is AMAZING and I give him all the glory!