Friday, July 30, 2010

Pray for Outreach This Week

Tomorrow night, the first part of IFM's third outreach team of the year arrives from Colorado. Then Sunday afternoon, the rest of the team arrives from Arkansas. We will be ministering in four places in Juarez, Mexico all next week. Our destination include a Children's Home, a colonia (neighborhood), a church/feeding center, and a girl's rehab/refuge center. These are all needy people, who epitomize poor, have severe broken family situations, and many who have been deeply scarred by life. Juarez is also still in the middle of a fierce drug cartel war. After many government attempts to stop it, we know for certain there is only one way to end it: through the power of the Lord Jesus Christ. Pray for saftey, courage, protection, and for God to show himself mighty once again.

Thursday, July 29, 2010

As Iron sharpens Iron, so a Man sharpens another

I thank the Lord for Godly men who are willing to approach thier friends when something wrong happens. Partly at the encouragement of a friend, I wrote a spiritual warfare novel that is on the verge of publication. But it was until just recently when this friend read my first few chapters that I realized something. I had parts of the novel that far more closely resembled the book he wrote (which inspired me) that I thought or realized. He wrote his first, and though I am ready for publication long before he is, I need to honor him and let him have the glory for the ideas he had. And I thank him for the Godly attitude he had in approaching me about it. Now I am going through his book again to compare what I have in mine so I can go through mine and edit that stuff out. This is the reason my book is not published yet and I thank God for it.

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

God's Provision

God never ceases to amaze me with how he provides for our needs. Today two things happened. One, I found out that with my current plan to go into teaching, I can get $17,500 of my student loans forgiven by teaching in any low-income elementary or high school for 5 consecutive years. Only one school in El Paso stands above that bar.

The other thing is that at the House of Cornelius Campus of International Family Missions where I live, a local church donated a new playground for us, provided thier youth group to install it, and provided a man who has a fence to put up to protect kids and balls from the irrigation ditch right by the playing area. God is so good.

Monday, July 26, 2010

Pray for New Student Orientation at UTEP Tomorrow

Tomorrow I will be assisting in running at table for Intervarsity Christian Fellowship as we greet incoming freshman as they have their summer orientations at the University of Texas at El Paso. I will be the student president of Intervaristy this next year and we are expecting a growth in our chapter. The theme of our Bible studies this semester will be God's Epic Story. We plan to go through the Bible and discover who God is by learning HIS STORY! Going to be a great year.

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Opening a Blog

Howdy World!!!

This is my first post in the blogging world. Here I will posting updates on my life including: results from fencing tournaments, updates from my college life, any updates as they come about my novel that's soon to be published, and also to get word out about my fencing ministry that is starting to take a more solid form than just in my head. I will be posting about that shortly. I'm looking forward to seeing what God does with this and even if I don't post every day, I'll be on here frequently as internet access allows.

Charlie Wolcott