Walk Around Boomer Lake for Brazil 2012

THIS Saturday, we will all meet at the SW corner of Boomer Lake at the boat dock at 9am.  We will all be given a flyer highlighting an adopted family as well as prayer points for our Brazil Trip and East Coast Trip.  We are receiving donations to help with the expenses of the trip.  We are also asking people to come and walk with us and pray!  What a wonderful opportunity to pray together, get some exercise and to raise some funds together!  If you can't come but would like to make a donation, you can make out your check to ARS and enclose a note stating for Brazil Trip.  You can mail it to ARS, PO Box 2086, Stillwater, OK  74076.  Thank you so much!  Our trip is fast approaching, June 29th!  I am excited!!!!!

Wheeee busy busy days! :-)

ARS Garage Sale - Stillwater
We had a wonderful Garage Sale for ARS April 20-21, we made over $780 and made lots of wonderful contacts.  Thank you to all who donated and who came by in support.  We will be having 1 more Garage Sale at the end of May.  We are using this sale in May to help raise up the last remaining support we need for the July/August ARS trip.  If you have any items to donate, just give me a call!

ARS Board
I have been working hard with Pr Jose and Leoni along with the ARS Board as we continue to grow together.  I have never been a "Chairman" before, so I am putting in lots of time and learning in the process.  One thing I do know, God is leading and I am determined to follow as we move forward.  I know that God has placed this opportunity of service before me and I so desire to be diligent in all things.

Brazilian Family

I would like to introduce to you one of our families that we work with in Brazil.  It is my desire that you come to know some of the precious ones that I am working with in Neves.  This woman's name is Beatriz.  She has 3 girls.  On my first trip in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Beatriz and her girls.  At that time she was in deep depression and was in a very critical time in her life.  Her husband had died just two weeks after arriving in Neves.  The home they were living in was in terrible shape and they had to leave the home because the roof had collapsed.  She would hardly look at us in the eyes in 2007.

She joined the program with ARS and through the loving presence of our partner organization CEDAF and ARS, they had their physical, emotional and spiritual needs met.  Beatriz came into a personal relationship with Jesus and she is a totally different person.  She is no longer stuck in depression and hopelessness.  She has come to discover that she has a beautiful singing voice and loves to sing God's praises! 

She and her girls were the first family to join the ARS program and the first to graduate!  They have such thankful hearts towards CEDAF and ARS and for the families who financially supported her.

God's working in my heart
In these crazy busy days, I have been stretched, challenged, encouraged and thrilled!  I am discovering even to a greater level, God's grace and strength.  What a joy and honor to "spend" my life serving Him!  I am working harder than I ever have in my life - including all those years as a Youth Pastor.  But I wouldn't change anything right now!  I am seeing God's provision for my life in every area, physically, emotionally and spiritually!

Thank you to all who are standing in prayer for this ministry and thank you to all who is standing with us financially.  If you would, please sign up in the right hand corner to follow this site through email.  Eventually, I would like to not have to send out a bulk email letting everyone know of the new postings.  Thanks so much.

May God richly bless you my friends!
Lisa