04 de enero 2010
Love- without counting the costs!
Hello everyone!
Well it is a new year and a new Decade. I have been looking back a bit at how this journey began for me here in Peru some years back. My first visit to Peru was in 2003 with a mission team from my church, Christ Fellowship in Palm Beach Gardens, Sunny Florida. That trip changed my life. So I came back a year later with my church and also again at Christmas time on my first personal journey here. I have just spent my 6th Christmas with the children of the Posada de Amor and again it was a wonderful experience. I don’t claim it totally for myself as I was also representing others back home who have been here with these kids and who helped make this Christmas possible.
I also can look back at how my small dream to “feed a few kids” here in Peru has grown, thanks to God and a wonderful group of folks with Reliv International, the Reliv Kalogris Foundation, all my friends who believed in me and supported me with prayer and funds. Also my wonderful friends with Medical Ministry International here in Peru. So now, with my own Potters Hand Foundation and with me blessed to serve as International Area Coordinator for Peru for the Reliv Kalogris Foundation and with the help of local Peruvians who are a part of all this, we have 10 feeding programs serving 291 children in different areas of this beautiful but poor country. With the hope to grow and serve more children in need and at risk, especially in the high Andes mountains and in the Amazon jungle.
I wish now to acknowledge my greatest gift and the reason I was able to “get out of the boat” and take this journey. That gift is my faith though Christ. That I could walk away from everything back home to begin this journey without knowing the outcome, or even where I would live, and how this God given dream could come to be. Every time I have taken each first step of faith God has been faithful to guide me and provide. It has not been easy but it has been grand. Even now I am working to form a Peruvian ONG- The Potters Hand- Peru, where I can continue this ministry and expand on it as I look for other opportunities to add to our feeding programs with other means to serve the children of Peru. Again I can not see the whole picture but I will continue to walk in faith, trusting in His love.
I wish to add one of my favorite scriptures and a story.
Call to me, and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know. Jeremiah 33:3
Swings give a feeling of weightlessness- for a few moments you bypass the laws of gravity. For a few moments you FLY!
Dreams do much the same thing. Dreams crash the confines of what is and what has been.
As our minds dare to see the unseen, our imagination fuels our faith and we begin to trust God for something more.
Some folks are afraid to dream. But connected to God, it is safe to dream. There is freedom to let FAITH take WINGS.
Alicia Britt Chole- Pure Joy
Now I am looking forward to coming home to the states for the month of February. For a rest, to see my friends and church family in Florida, to go to Phoenix for a conference with Reliv International and our Reliv Kalogris Foundation. And a very special treat for me will be to visit with my son in Telluride, Colorado after conference. It has been too long since we last had a chance to catch up on things.
Son, does this mean I will see a lot of snow? Can’t wait to share an adventure with you!
En El Nombre de Cristo with love,
Taylor
www.pottershandfoundation.org
www.relivkalogrisfoundation.org
“Little children, let us stop saying we love people;
let us really love them, and show it by our actions.”
1 John 3:18 (LB)