Malta Funny

I was talking with my friends kids who is under five about my trip. I was showing kid where Malta was on the map compared to where we lived. The conversation went like this.

Me:See we are going from here all the way to here. (using my finger to trace the path on the map.)
Kid: You taking a boat?
Me: Oh, no-we are actually taking an airplane-(impressed by kids thinking.)
Kid: Well you better wear a life jacket.
Me:laughter-(very impressed kid noticed all the water we are flying over and knew for water safety you must wear a life jacket!) :)

Can you guess whose kid this is????????? Sorry only if you live near me you would know I guess. :)

I cannot wait to get back and post all the great pics I know I will have! I am sure I am having fun. If you haven't guessed this was posted before I left as a scheduled post! :)

Sunday Update

Hey bloggy friends!

Just wanted to let you know all is good. Today was a great day.
We got to go to a Baptist church here. We also got to take communion together.

It is amazing how international this place is. Every tongue, nation, and tribe like Heaven.

Thanks for your prayers-keep it up. You all rock!

We start our work tomorrow.

Another Update

We had a great day today. We got to see a place that overlooks the whole entire island. Great prayer spot!

God is showing me so much and I am journaling it. Thank you for partnering with me in this work by your prayers. God has great things.

Tonight we participated in the international day of prayer services-The first half childcare was divinely appointed to me. I was so blessed by these little ones-Each one so precious. The second half I got to sit in on precious worship and prayer. It is so neat to hear others singing to our Lord in their native languages-every nation, every tongue. The people are so friendly and nice and love the Lord. Please pray for us as we walk the towns to know God's very heart for these people.

Tomorrow we have a free day to relax and see some sights.
Sunday we will get to particpate and worship in the local churches.
Monday we start our walks.
That is all for now.

Happy Birthday Daddy!

I just had to give a shout out to my daddy on his birthday! I wrote a poem for you-hope you like it. It is the best I could do out of the country! :)

A Father's love today is rare.
Despite the odds you were always there.
Over the years you truly cared
Even through the decades of
pigtails, pony tails, braids, and big 80's hair.

Girl world can be scary
especially when people stare
but not for you-my rock
who always stood solid and fair

I would not be the woman I am today
if you didn't dare
to be the Father who would show me
everlasting love and unconditional care.

Thank you Dad! I love you-Happy Birthday!

Abundant Grace Week Five Discussion Questions

Hey everyone! You are doing such a great job. I especially love this week because as we study we get to see that leadership is so important when it comes to running our nation. This is a critical time to learn from these from the past so we can be helped with our future.

I am in Malta at this time so please discuss among yourselves. The next week's will be posted next Friday as well but I will still be out of the country. I will be excited to see what your thoughts have been.

Regarding Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah:

1-What were some things that made these people ordinary?

2-What were their main challenges?

3-Does it surprise you that throughout this week we saw kings that were so very different? why or why not?

4-Whose kingdom most reflects our nation in your opinion?

5-These kings were very different, but from the same blood line. Do you have an example of how your family line is very different from one generation to another?

6-Do you realize that you are on one side, either God’s or satan’s? Ever think about it that way? Why or why not?

7-Is there anything you need to do to be certain you are on God’s side?

8-Have you ever had your faith tested? How did your respond?

9-Did you think to look at a trial as a good thing? Why or why not?

10-Do you see now how trials can either draw you closer to or further from God?
Give an example of either of these instances in your life.

11-Do you see how the people responded to the leaders?
What are your thoughts about this?
Based on what we learned, how important is it to have godly leaders?

Take Nothing withYou

Wow-you have no idea how much I needed to make this post! I am so praising God for all of you! You just have no idea how theurapeutic this is and the fact you take the time to read and encourage me. You are something! :)

So we arrived yesterday and so far I have to tell you I have learned one thing about myself-I am SPOILED. Seriously. I hit a very low point around 6pm Malta time. If you were praying then I so needed it. I was running on over 24 hours of no sleep only to find my luggage not greeting me at the final destination. Oh no! Is that what Jesus meant when He told the disciples to take nothing with them when He sent them out? But I am a GIRL. :(

All was okay at first. Seriously it was only stuff but then I had to go and starting thinking about it. Not a good thing. Then I started to cross over the crankiness barrier. Oh help me now. Finally I hit the almost no return self-pity place of comfort. I seriously wanted to die.

Things so far have not been as I expected in my Pollyanna mind. Yet God has things He is breaking me still from. Every thing is not PollyAnna and it is about time I start realizing that.

I love all things international. International and PollyAnna do not quite mix. I am learning. So. I FINALLY make it to a bed and start some more thinking. Self pity feels good.

I am able to get alone with God and journal my feelings-dangerous no one wants to tread there. But God is good and He is good with it.

I finally get ahold of my man who I am convinced is my perfect gift of a rock of God in the flesh. Just a piece of Him to me. I think I may change his name to Peter. Anyway, I get ahold of him and he prays with me and speaks to me in the only way any one person in the world can. He points me back to my Father and reminds me of this call He gave both of us for me to be here. God has some big things I have to believe by faith because most likely my eyes will not see them. Oh Lord forgive me for my lack of it. I love my man!

God has given me so many blessings along the way to help with the sleep deprivation factor. Precious people and children. He is so good.

This morning I awoke up to a phone call-it was my bag! Yes. It was worth the migraine complete with aura I had to wake up to. Oh this body of mine!

So if you have beared with me on this crazy rambling post-I want to let you know all is well and it would have been luggage or not. But a new set of clothes is good and I was not looking forward to the underwear I washed by hand in the sink and blow dried! SPOILED I tell you.

Okay well, some serious sides of prayer.
PollyAnna thought that since this is a English speaking country it would be like home. Well I was greatly mistaken-it is so much harder to understand. That is nothing with God so please ask Him to break down that barrier.

Our team was operating on exhaustion-help us to love one another and have one heart and Spirit.

Help us to maintain unity in this work. Five different personalities can present some difficulties.

Pray Satan will be hindered from anything else to distract us.

Pray for the hearts of these precious people and our divine encounters.

Okay well I love you all. I hope you could make sense of my ramblings AND I am not even proofing or spell checking this today-so your getting it raw today.
Bye for now and hopefully I will be back later in the week to post again. Until then I do have some scheduled posts going out!

Update on Malta Trip

Hello everyone, this is Angela's husband Tony, and I wanted to keep you all updated on my wife's trip to Malta. She arrives safely (Praise God), but ran into a little problem with her luggage. It's somewhere between London and Malta. Nothing to big that God can not rectify ;). Anyhow, please continue to pray for her and lift her up, she is very tired, hasn't slept much, and is missing her other clothes deeply. Please pray that she focuses on the goal of why she is there, and that God receive the glory. Good thing, she does have her Visa :)

Thank you all,

Tony