As I imagine what these next months will be like, I am excited and full of intense thoughts.
I am grateful for all of you. Your support makes these days possible. I will be training English teachers every Tuesday and hopefully getting to know some of their students as well.
It is exciting to be available to serve and to be doing the Lord's work, but it is in these things that I recognize my need for him.
The children here break my heart, their honesty is so touching and their laughter is contagious. I am anxiously waiting for my camara charger which I accidently left in the United States so that I can take pictures of these beautiful little ones.
I was taken right away by them in the Cartago where we celebrated the national day of children with these who are taken away from their parents.
Since I got back 14 days ago, I have been helping out with meetings, translating materials, visiting children, given new ideas for children's church, building new relationships, and dreaming about how God might choose to open doors.
As many of you have been praying for my friend, Emerson, please continue to pray not only for him, but for the many in Curridabat just like him who are struggling against addictions to drugs. Our God is a healing and miracle working God.
How incredible if parents didn't have to lose their children because of drugs and alcohol and their apparent neglect becuase of problems in their lives. God is able to deliver them from all these things.
Pray with me for these children.
The HIMAD (children of ministers assemblies of God) is doing well. We had a great meeting last Friday in which we spoke of the unique challenges that they face.
Remember our ministry in prayer please, as also I think of each of you.
Your financial and emotional support has been sustaining me through it all.
I love you so much!
Joanna Joy Finkenbinder
