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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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2018 Day 1-Team Member Profiles Roz and Peter

Two more “One Word” videos

Roz

Roz returned after her debut last year. She’s more confident and comfortable than ever with her tools, but really exercising her ministry skills.

Peter

Peter has been on every team (just like Tommy), so far, but he’s still learning about himself, this team ministry and God.

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OKC 2017 Day 3-Recap for the day

Today was the first day on the site with Miss Shirley Smith. Our site leaders, were Chris H and Eric for Habitat.

We’d seen photos of the house before, and it looked in much better shape than some of us expected. A new roof had been put on where we had seen blue tarps in the photo before

But when we arrived, it looked in better shape:

But there was still water damage from the once open roof.

So we went to work. We had a few tasks ahead of us:
a) replace the exterior doors (3)
b) replace bathroom floor, tub and commode
c) remove old paint from siding and repaint
d) build an access ramp/deck in the back for scooters/wheelchairs
e) repair ceiling damage (from the once open roof) in living room, kitchen

Some of the projects proved more complicated as they were worked on. Craig, Kevin T and Chris were working in the bathroom and had to raise/jack up the house because it had sank so much

Since the bathroom was unavailable to us, and we hadn’t yet received delivery of the outhouse, we drove to a local park to have lunch. It was cold and windy, and most of us stayed in the cars.

Afterwards, some of us picked up warm drinks at a local Starbucks, and we chatted with a few of the hundreds of FFA students who were here for a statewide meeting. We also noticed a man that was folding paper in the most interesting ways. Lorin went inside to engage with the fellow, sharing their interest in origami. It was a nice way to connect and understand someone, through their hobbies and interests, and we went on our way.

Later that evening, Lorin would be asked by a teacher at Hilltop Baptist, to speak and familiarize the kids (4-5 grade) with us being “missionaries.”

The kids got it, understanding that missionaries could be people just coming to visit people in a different town or culture. That they could come for a variety of reasons, including to help in case of disaster, but they really did understand that Lorin and her team came to bless because we’ve been blessed by God.

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Meet our team-Roz

Roz

As we return to Oklahoma City (OKC), we welcome a few first-timers, or newbies, as we affectionately call them. Roz Endow is one of our two women newbies, and jumped at the opportunity to help the team by organizing our Children’s message, where we speak with the children of the church.

Hi, this is Rosalind (Roz) Endow. My husband, John and I, have been coming to Evergreen for about 6 years now. I’m a 56 year old mother of four college age and up children. I am a part time dental hygienist.
I spend most of my free time studying and preparing to lead my BSF group. Last year I felt the Lord prompting me to go on mission but I had my excuses. I felt I was too old, I had never been on mission before and didn’t know what I would be getting myself in to, the timing wasn’t right because it was during the BSF study and I didn’t want to miss a class, and I couldn’t afford the time and expense.  This year the Lord wanted me to go despite my excuses so I applied and left it in His hands. By His grace my application was accepted and it is my prayer to experience Him, on mission, glorified in ways I have never seen before. God is faithful in calling me to go to OKC as He has provided by sending me with an experienced group, some in my generation, some with little experience like me and many friendly and familiar faces. I am looking forward to new blessings and stretching of my faith as I step out of my comfort zone. 

Please pray for me to be a good listener and to learn new skills quickly so I may be useful. Pray for me to have a gracious attitude no matter how tired I get or what I am asked to do. Pray for my love for the Lord and my fellow missionaries to increase and for me to decrease. I know God has plans for me this year at OKC and look forward to glorifying Him and for blessings through my obedience.