To my 3 C's

 My precious babies. These 3 kids have my heart... They are the reason I get up in the morning and choose to live a life following the lord. I choose to get up and TRY to be just like Christ! I want to prove to them that even though life was rough growing up, and when he world is telling you how to live and let those morals slide you can stand out, you can be different. Generations before and after, YOU can be the one standing out, you can be the one to be different, fight for those morals, fight to choose love, choose to wake up and live a life for more than just fun, but rewarding in the lords eyes! 

If I go over to African and love on his people and share the lords love and don't ever see the fruit of that, that is okay. Because I have 6 little eyes watching my every move. I have 6 little eyes seeing their Aunt B do something different breaking the mold. THAT my friends is my secret. Knowing that I have a Papa up their guiding my every move and whispering love into into my ear and the fact that I  have something to prove to my babies at home. That I can be an example of what God is calling us to be, to be his servants, to love his people. To be an example of LIFE!!!! 

 I really really really don't like this see you later thing, and not getting to wake up to their precious faces and missing out on their little lives, but at the end of the day I know they are proud of me. I know that I can speak truth and life into their little hearts. I can love them just as much in Africa as I can here, its true. I know that one day they can look me in the eye, and say Aunt B I love you for YOU, thank you for stepping up and being different. 

That's what I want for them. To love the lord before all and walk out their destiny... I just get to watch from the sidelines and get to love on the 3 best kids God could have ever given me. 

I love you Cam -- Be a rock star and keep being a leader. Don't let anyone tell you that you are not worthy or not important you are important to me! Keep your head held high and follow your heart. You have such a big heart for children and they just seem to flock towards you, and I LOVE that in you. Play hard, and love even harder. Keep your head in the game and keep that SWAG. I am rooting for you and know that the world is at your feet. But don't let the world get into your heart, and always always check where your heart is. Stand out, dare to be different, break the mold, you have the fight in you so do it!! You are so special, and I love the young man you are turning into. Follow your passion and never ever give up. I love you handsome boy!

Princess Court -- My sweet dancer girl. Your passion has set on fire this year and it has been so special to watch you grow up into this young lady. I hope that you will always look up to me with those big diva blue eyes! You are sassy and will stand up for anything you think is right, and as you grow up and come into that I  hope you will choose to always stand up loud and proud for what is right ( just like your momma )!! Don't ever let anyone tell you that you are not beautiful because my love you are one of a kind. Dance hard and love even harder my love. Follow your heart and listen to the lord always. I love you princess C! 

COOOOLT MAN -- Oh my cuddly fluffy blond hair boy, how I love your sweet spirit. I have no doubt in my mind that one day you will be in Africa with me, if you could have you would be going with me right now!  You have the sweetest most raw little heart and I hope that you always will. I pray that you will never loose that heart to LOVE. You are in such a fun stage in life and as much as I want you to stay little forever I can NOT wait to see the young man you grow into. Don't let anyone tell you that you are not good enough, because ColtMan you are the best YOU and God wants it that way. Play hard my sweet boy and know that God loves YOU!! I love you sweet baby boy. 

The judgmental Christian

This blogger just recently did a blog on Missionaries! I just had to share on my blog. Enjoy! You can also find her on Facebook and then of course her blog!! 

Check out her blog here: The Judgmental Christian 

Life in Africa, :)

Here is a  video of where I will be on Saturday... Just a little glimpse of what life looks l!

Love

If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing. If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love. 

1 Corinthians 13:1-7 The Message

I do missions because I know that I am loved so so much.  I know what the power of love can do and the reality of how much this world needs love.

You see we have this warped vision of love. We mentally agree that God loves us, and we like to talk about how we think he loves and we can read it in our little bibles how much he loves us, but most of us haven’t done much about it. We are just sitting around waiting for further evidence of that truth.

That evidence won’t come until we get up and do something! Just knowing that God loves us isn’t enough; it’s acting on that knowledge that brings results!

We have got to start acting on God’s word, and making it SIMPLE! For example, when we read that as believers we can lay hands on the sick and they’ll recover, we can’t shrink back in fear. We can’t sit around and wonder what will happen if we lay hands on someone and they don’t get well. Get up and get after it, believe that God loves you enough to back you up!!!! The minute that we as a nation can stand up and truly act upon his love and his words that we claim are true, God’s love will suddenly become more than just this religious concept and it will become reality! That’s when you’ll begin to see what the power of love can do!

He gave himself on the cross so that you and I could be redeemed; Now that’s love.  His love never fails, it never runs out, and it will never give up on us! Come on, that is the kinda love I want from my papa!

I know this may be just a reminder talk to some of you. To never ever ever forget that love he has for you. To know that he died for YOU, that he has chosen you for this fabulous life and to step up and know that he is backing you up.. So be proud of the person you are through his LOVE, be proud that his hand is all over your life and today is the day to called his bride, his oh so beautiful bride.

You see though, this little talk is SO important to my heart and to my babies in Africa. For the people over there don’t understand what love is. They don’t even know who this Jesus fellow is. My babies don’t get to wake up knowing that someone is backing them up, and fighting for them, they don’t get to wake up and to be kids. They get to wake up and fight the battles of generations before them. They get to fight for food and fight that they can even make it to tomorrow.

When you ask Jesus to break your heart to what breaks his, he answers loud and clear. This is my passion, what gets me up and doing something.  I have grown up knowing that when the world is telling me something different,  I have a God whispering in my ear how much he loves me! He has given me a gift to help little ones understand what love is, and that I get to love them. I get to be our papas hands and feet and show them what love looks like, I get to introduce them to this Jesus fellow. But I only can do this because I know the reality of what Love can do; I know that through God alone he is backing me up. I know that one day my babies with fight no more and they will fall at his feet with me. That is love my friends, falling at his feet.

Jesus loves you and is fighting for you, declare it, walk it out, and fight for his people, because he fought for you.

Round two.

I love people. I love serving. My passion is missions. God has called me to love on the orphans and to rise up and help change the world. That is my dream, to change the lives and hearts of people in Africa. I want to hold the orphan, and minister to the widow. I want to comfort the lonely and give hope to the broken. I want to be used my God, and live a life where I can surrender my life at His will.

God tells us that he will give us the desires of our heart and that is just what he is doing for me...  I will be embarking on a new season in my life where I will be learning and serving at Heidi Baker's Harvest School, in Mozambique, Africa for a little over 3 months (September 27^th – December 22^nd)! It is a school where I will be learning practical missionary work Monday through Thursday, while working at an orphanage during the evenings, and going out into The Bush on the weekends to spread the Gospel. After graduation, the Harvest School is going to open the doors for me to become a long term missionary where I will be working hand in hand with Iris Ministry’s with a commitment of 2 to 3 years, working with my orphans, loving on God’s people, and just being open to what the Lord has planned for my life!

·          Sponsor – make a tax deductible donation

o   I must raise $3,150, by August 25^th, for the Harvest School - this will cover my housing and food while in Africa and also the Madagascar outreach I will be doing after graduation.

o   I also must raise $6,000 for my plane ticket to find my heart where I left it in Africa, pay for my visa’s, buy a monthly supply of water, and a few odds and ends I will need to bring with me to Africa.

o   I will also need monthly supporters for the next 2 to 3 years as my ‘job’ will be serving the Lord and the pay is all in love. It’s the best job in the world for me, but if it weren’t for people like YOU blessing me and the Lord sending me out this would not be possible!

Along with your prayers, if you feel led to support me financially you may give directly to me. I have partnered with War Cry Prayer Ministries Inc., in order for you to have a tax deduction for your one-time or monthly giving. Lonnie and Annette Lavender are so precious to me and they are the founders of War Cry, and feel led to help us receive support by offering to give me 100% of the donations that come into War Cry for me. If you choose to write a check to War Cry, please put “Breanne missions” in the memo space! 

I am very excited and honored that I, just a simple daughter of the Lord, has been called out by name to spread his love to the people of Africa. This is my passion and what sets my heart on fire, and any amount of prayer and support you are able to offer is so appreciated. You are such a blessing to me and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.