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2018-Reflections-Roz


Reflection from Roz







This is the second year that Roz served on our team.


Of the three houses, she worked on “house #3”, Miss Susan’s, where the majority of the work was doing some light electrical, but cleaning water damage from brick and caulking and painting. As a dental hygienist, she went from cleaning teeth to brick. But most of our time was spent getting to know Miss Susan, and share life with her, and pray with her. Roz led the way with prayer.


Roz Photographing a pretty insect




“I am benumbed and badly crushed; I groan because of the agitation of my heart. Lord, all my desire is before You; And my sighing is not hidden from You.”


‭‭Psalms‬ ‭38:8-9‬ ‭NASB‬‬





Best food moment: Tommy’s biscuits- homemade by teammates with love, not costly and awesome tasting!  





Best work day: Monday when I found complete joy and satisfaction in God’s presence through prayer even before I got to Miss Susan’s.  Also being used to serve her and love her as He does from the first moment our team sought Him in prayer together with
Miss Susan. Seeing how various faith activities and circumstances in my life this past year had been God’s hand in growing me and preparing me for this trip. I found as the week went on ‘self will’ showed up and caused me to be perfectionistic and prideful
and unsatisfied but I saw how other teammates worked for and ministered to Miss Susan and that renewed me and blessed me also. God made real to me His delight in our team and that satisfaction in doing His will and in Him alone leads to life just as we were
created for. God is so good! 






Best Ministry Moment: God moved me to expect something wonderful to happen on Monday at Miss Susan’s and that the best way to serve her was to bring some tissue and just pray and listen. Thank you Lord for picking the teams and having a plan for each one
of us and allowing me to be a part of many awesome moments!!

Peace Be With You,

Roz

Roz with her team from House #3, with Miss Susan


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2017 OKC Kids’ Church

Kids’ Church

Virginia taught about what we’ll be doing in OKC, and how the kids could partner with us and pray for us.


“Auntie” Sunday A., the main teacher, did things a little differently this year. She wanted the kids to remember our names, so they could pray for us while we’re gone. That
meant that each team member would have a word associated with their
name and do a hand motion. We weren’t prepared. It was pretty hilarious, and exhausting. One of the team values is “be flexible,” I guess it starts now.


After the intro, the kids prayed for us. It’s always a sweet time. Pam said that one year, one of the kids prayed that the sharks wouldn’t be a problem for us in OKC. As far as we know, the prayer came true.


 



Virginia teaching at Kids’ Church

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Getting prayed for by the kids…

Went to kids’ church today and had the kids pray for us.

Carol, who ran the presentation, noted that among her tools, her Bible was the most significant one.

Notes:

  • Roy answered that question before letting the kids answer it, you can see him laughing when he realizes his error/jumping the gun..
  • You can also hear Adam N (telling his son the proper answers to the questions Carol is posing… “Belt!” 🙂

Click on the photo below to see the pictures from the time with the kids
Kids church 2012 03 11

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Day 5 Prayer

We came as a church. Habitat for Humanity is a Christian organization.

I know that there’s been a lot of interest and questions regarding the work we were doing, and between doing the actual building and keeping you informed, it did seem to get a little wrapped up in the task at hand. Besides, we’re guys.

But other things were going on as well. We grew as men, and men of God.

Prayer Walk
Today was our last day on the site on Prince George Street. We’ll miss the house, working together, and working on this house, but mostly we’ll miss the people we met, and we wonder about the home that will one day fill the house.

We took our last moments on site to pray.

We prayed for the future tenants, the local area, for Habitat, for Bracky, Diane, David and all the others seen and unseen. We prayed for peace within families, especially the family that will call this their home. We prayed for God’s protection over all these things and prayed for a blessing on the home. We prayed most of all that they know that we came because we wanted them to know that Jesus loves them.

Each one of the ten guys sat or stood in a room and prayed whatever he felt. It was good. It was moving. Many of us cried. It was humbling. I’m glad that I belong to a church that believes in prayer and has guys that are used to praying, especially publicly. We walked around and prayed for the neighborhood, especially because Habitat owns the lots to the left and right of this one, as well as several others in the area.

We pray that the right families get the homes, and we pray that they know that God loved them enough to send 10 guys with not a lot in common to build a home for them.

It was humbling to be part of a greater plan, to be a small part of a small team that was a small section of the life of this house. God could have done anything with anyone, but He chose this method and these people: Habitat, volunteers, us, to bring this home together for no other purpose than to let them know that God is so loving and powerful that He could orchestrate so much for a family that is in need.

God loves people regardless of what they can give Him. He just loves them.

So we prayed. And we became better men because of it, and because of this trip.

We’ll tell you some things over the next few weeks about why this was a significant thing for us to do, and for the particular timing. And Oh My Gosh I’m glad that we’ll have some time to catch up and post things without having to go to sleep and get up and start hammering by 6 am.

But we wanted you to know that we pray for you out there that are part of this experience.

Katrina Prayer Walk Day 5