What a blessing!

I must admit to everyone that this week has been one of the most encouraging weeks i've had all year. I have been so blessed by everyone of you. Thank you so much for sharing your comments and for pouring your love into my life.

Missionaries from all over the world came to the Missions Conferance this week and they all had one major thing in common about their testimonies...they said that what really impacted them was for the first time in all of their lives someone showed them love.

I have such a heart for missions even though at this moment in time i do not fully believe that foreign missions is what God has called me to do...My heart goes out for the lost people of this world because for so long i was lost, i was empty, and the only love that i had ever known was going to die.

Sometimes i have thought about sitting down and writing a book about the glories of God in my life...about how for years he was preparing my heart to recieve the good news. I remember when Pastor Andy sat down with me and showed me in the bible what a sinner really was and that i was, indeed, one of them. I remember when he asked me.."Sara, why are you crying?" and i responded "Because i am so hopeless" and i remember when he said "No, you're not. There is still more."

i remember the first time i ever read a bible and i remember the first time i had ever recieved my very own bible...I would carry that bible around with me every where that i went and i was not ashamed to talk to others about it. I even slept with my bible because i just wanted to be as close to the person that saved me as i could possilbly be. For once in my life i had hope, i had life, i had freedom and i wanted others to experience that same liberation.

I still want others to know that hope...i still have a heart for missions, missions in the sense of spreading hope, truth, life where ever i may be. I don't care where i go in this world whether it is timbucktue in Africa, or Cortland NY...my desire is to see lost, dead people, live.

Please keep praying for my family...pray for me that i would have boldness in witnessing to them. Pray that while i am serving here in Northeast America that God would use me to make a differance in the lives around me.

Pray that we would be a people that would "hope, and be undismayed."