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| HAPPY H-A-LL-O-W-EE-N !!!!!!!! | | |
| Hey Everybody!!! Wow! I have had a really great past week! It's been pretty busy, but really good. I have been staying at the Crawford's house....they are the family that is leading the Mexico team. My room mate is still out of town so I have been here for the past week. It has been so great! They are a huge blessing to me, and they are an amazing family. They have 4 girls that are so adorable and sweet. I have been having a blast with them! It helps me when I am missing all my nephews and niece. The second to youngest girl named Claire is 2 yrs. old, and she calls me Me-gan (emphasis on the 'e'). It's really cute. She says, "Where's Me-gan??? I loooove the Me-gan!!" I have a friend, that I think I have mentioned before-all me emails are starting to run together so forgive me if I've already told you this :) Anyway, his name is Hector and he is a medical student at the medical school here. And these past couple of weeks I have been going up to the hospital and he has been taking me around to meet some of his patients there. It so neat to be able to go into these peoples hospital rooms and encourage them with the love of Christ. The rooms are really small and on average they have about 5 patients in each room. They barely have enough room for people to come and visit them. There is one woman that has stomach problems and she has been in the hospital for about 3 weeks, but she hasn't had any one come visit her the whole time she's been there. She needed this certain medicine to help her with her problem but she didn't have any money to get it, so our youth group raised money so she would be able to have it. Now she is much better and she should be leaving soon. Also Hector took me up to see all the kids that have cancer. I got to talk to a lot of them and encourage them and get to know them. It was very heartbreaking to see 3 year old and young teenagers that are having to deal with something so horrible. Especially the younger ones because they can't understand fully what is happening and why they are always so sick. My heart felt very heavy going into their rooms and seeing their families and the kids terrified little faces. But you could see their joy as we began talking to them about sports, music, movies and what ever else kids that age likes to think about. It was nice to know that we took their mind off of their illnesses if just for a second. I think going to go see the kids at the hospital has been the most rewarding and fruit bearing part of my whole time being here. I think we are going back this week again to hang out with them. They have this area where they can go out side and play in the mornings, so I think we will go do that with them. I am looking forward to that. On Thursday we are taking a trip to Xlapa!!! I am so excited! We went there last summer for about a week,and I loved it. The church here in Monterrey has a branch in Xlapa that we go and visit every once and a while. We send people from church down there to encourage them and help them with different ministry things. This time we are going down there to bring them a projector so they can put us their worship music and sermons and things. I think it will be a huge blessing for them. It is good to visit them and let them know that we are praying for them and thinking about them. We are only going to be there for a few days...I think we're leaving Thursday and coming back Sunday. It will be a short but good trip. Xlapa is a beautiful place, and it's about 12 hours from Monterrrey. So please pray for our trip there. I am going with Wes, Brian-he's part of our team, and a couple from the church that are going to check it out because they have never been there before. They may end up being down there full time to work with the church, so be praying for them as they are making that decision. So we get back on Sunday and then I will be coming back to Texas 5 days after that!!!!!! Thank you for all of your prayers. The Lord has been working in my heart a lot this week, and giving me peace about a lot of different situations. Please pray for continual peace and direction as the time for me to come home is closing in. I love you all!!! Meg | | |
| I just wanted everyone to know that I will be returning to the states on October 27th. It's earlier than we had said from the beginning, but the Lord has confirmed to me in more than one way that this is in His will. Thank you for all your prayers and support. I will be seeing most of you soon. I love you all!! Please pray for the rest of my time here that the Lord will continue to use me and work in me as he has been doing so far. God bless- Meg | | |
| Como Estas?
Today was muy, muy bueno. On Saturdays we have meetings with the Jovenes
(youth group). Every other Saturday we have a fun acitvity like watching a
movie or going to eat somewhere. Then the other Saturdays we have worship and
a discussion then a game or something. Today was the "discussion". Worship
was really good...we sang My Redeemer Lives and Oh The Wonderful Cross in
Spanish, so that was cool. Then Wes talked about where we find our joy in the
Lord. Then we played the assassin game where one person is the "assassin" and you
kill people by winking at them. And the other people that are still alive
are trying to guess who the assassin is. Anyway, it's really fun. Then we
walked down the street to this REALLY good ice cream shop, and hung out there for
a while.
After that, my room mate Suzanne teaches English on Saturday nights. For
about the first 45min. only one girl was there, but then a whole family came
in for the class (they are on Mexico time...haha). It was one guy that was
about my age, another girl probably about the same age, then three adults. One
was probably in her 50's. Oh and also a little girl around the age of 5.
They all come in with eagerness and excitement in their eyes to learn a new
language. It was so encouraging to watch them be so interested and trying so,so
hard to say the words and phrases correctly. I was very impressed with their
ability to understand what Suzanne was teaching them. Every time they said
something right you could see there eyes light up and their confidence rising.
The best part of the whole class was when they learned the song This is Your
Life by Switchfoot. First we played the song with out them looking at the
words. Then we gave them the lyrics and we went through each line translating it
into Spanish. Then we played the song again, and since they understood it
better after we translated it, they were singing it in ENGLISH!!!! I can't
express how in awe I was that after hearing something only once then going over it
in their language, they were able to sing the whole thing in English. I
could see with every word their faces light up and the joy of their voices as
they spoke in their new language the God was allowing them to understand. It was
beautiful. And at that moment the Lord showed me that I was to teach people
new things. And I said Lord, I am not a teacher, in fact I always saw
teaching as one of my least strongest spiritual gifts. But he said, no it is in fact
one of your strongest, and I want you to go out into the world and teach my
word to people that have never heard it before. God is good.
Tomorrow we are going to Saltillo (unsure of the correct spelling). It's
a very small farm town about 2 hours outside of Monterrey. We're going for
the day to have church with them and fellowship with their people. I am more
than excited about this trip. I believe that the Lord will do great things
there.
God bless you all,
I love you!
Megan
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| I seem to find my self constantly asking the question, "Lord why am I here?" I think it's a question that many people struggle with in their daily lives. I happen to be in Mexico not knowing at all why the He has placed me here for this season of my life. I go to meetings, to different ministry activities, to Spanish class, out to eat, Starbucks, and all the time I am surrounded by beautiful amazing mountains and brightly colored buildings. I look at the citizens of Monterrey and I can't look past the fact that they are all middle to upper class. They are wonderful people, and nothing but hospitable; but I just keep feeling my self gravitating towards the people that are more lower class. I feel that the Lord has given me such a heart for people in their condition. I want to be able to start from scratch with them...tell them who Christ is and show them what a Bible is. I want to teach them something that they've never heard of before. Someone once told me that the most effective way to do ministry is to start building up the leaders in the upper middle class societies to equip them to go out and share with the lower class people. As opposed to sharing and equipping the lower class people first, because that cuts off any ministry that we would ever want to do with the upper class. I agree with that some what, but I believe that Christ calls different people to different parts of the world to share with all different social classes. And that's great when he calls you to Monterrey to build up leaders in a middle class society, but I don't think you should limit ministry to just that. Other people may be called to the un reached people of Africa, and teach them what a Bible even looks like and how to read it. All this to say. I think whatever the Lord calls you to in ministry is perfect, but it doesn't mean that it's the only way to do ministry, and reach people. Sometimes the Lord wants you to stay right were you are and have your mission field be your job, or your home, or school. I don't want to live in a "missions box", I want to be open to any opportunity that Christ wants me to be a part of. I am glad that I am in Monterrey, but I don't believe that, in this season of life, this is the kind of people that He has me in missions for. As I've been here my heart has grown more and more heavy for the un reached. I don't know when or where, but I do know that the Lord has laid them on my heart. I am thankful for this time in Mexico, and I will continue do show Christ to these people, and to love them and help build up their leaders in the church. I can't loose sight of why I am here. God is good, and I am blessed to have this calling on my life. The Lord has taught me so much since I've been here and stretched me in many different ways. He has shown me how to live in some one else's culture, and respect all the things that differ from mine. He has brought me out of my box and my individualistic way of thinking. He has taught me the importance of community within his people. He is a good, faithful, and just God. That's all I have for today. I love you and miss you all :) -In Christ- Meg | | |
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