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July Newsletter

 SHANNON’S CORNER

Raise up the heat!

July has been hot, hot, hot! It has been a hot month for providing care through debriefs.  Three family debriefs with kids ranging from five to fifteen years old along with a one-year-old and two individual online debriefs. Plus facilitating one member care training in-person and one online transitional stress training. The countries that have been served just this month are Uganda, Denmark, Malaysia, Togo, Indonesia, Panama, USA, and Bangladesh.



It is truly amazing to be a small part in caring for the kids and teenagers and many times it is trying to give them back their voice, power, and relationship that has been stolen, shut down, or broken because of their experiences, relationships, and transitions they find themselves in.  Our personhood is made up of our voice – our identity, essence, the expression of who I am; our power – choice, options, our self-control, our limits, and responsibilities; and our relationship – interpersonal connections, connection with our community, world, life, and work.  Each debrief is unique and different just as each person and family are unique and different.



One individual expressed that her season has been like the ocean – the depth of her grief from all her losses and the beauty and calmness it speaks to her. One mom shared that her son started using some of the emotion vocabulary that we worked on and used throughout our days together.  This is a big first step, having vocabulary to be able to process.  Some sisters were able to share some hard parts of their story as they broke pottery and glued it into something beautiful on a piece of canvas.  Some kids were able to identify where they were in the journey of grief after using the map for the journey of grief and finding all the stations and experiencing what that station of grief feels like and learning some tools, they can do to help support them as they journey through grief.  You can’t go over it. You can’t go under it. You must go through it.  Trusting Jesus in the process.

Equipping people to come alongside of others and to care for them where they are in their journey is such a joy.  How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news (Rom. 10:15b).  It was refreshing and joyful to help equip a woman who is from Panama and served in Indonesia and is now helping to mobilize and care for her organization’s global workers.  As I got to hear parts of her story serving in Indonesia and of her re-entry process back to Panama and now her hopes for better equipping her fellow global workers and providing care for them is truly special and amazing.  In our time together I got to learn from her and glean insight into some of her challenges and difficulties in her re-entry journey.  How amazing that we are invited to partner with Jesus on mission in the work that he is already doing in people’s lives! 

Cherry Run Camp

Camp meeting starts July 27th until August 4th. It is not too late to come and join us for the week, for some days and/or evening services. I am the resident missionary this summer. This year, I am so excited to not only share what the Lord has been preparing in my heart to share with the youth, with the children, with the adults about missions, how we are all invited to partner with Jesus on mission AND also to hear testimonies of how the Lord is moving in people’s lives.  Tuesday morning from 9:30am-10:30am in the Dining Hall I will be having a session with adults and sharing about some of the challenges pastor’s kids and missionary’s kids have.  Missions day is all day Thursday and I will be speaking for both worship services at 11am and 7pm.  I would love to see you and chat with you so come on down to Cherry Run Camp.  You do not want to miss out!

 

If you are not able to make it, many of the services are streamed live on Cherry Run Camp’s Facebook page.  Dr. Caleb Friedeman and Rev. Jimmy Swogger will be our evangelists for the week, check out the schedule.

“How beautiful are the

feet of those who

bring good news.”

Romans 10:15b


PRAYER REQUESTS

Praise the Lord for a lovely time speaking at Knox Dale, Meade Chapel, and Port Barnett Churches!

Praise the Lord for God’s goodness beauty and truth in the three family debriefs and the two individual debriefs!

Praise the Lord for celebrating 10 years of Safe Place Ministry!

Praise the Lord for a great group of people at the member care training!

Praise the Lord for continuing to use my Spanish!

Praise the Lord for my visit with Chrissy and her family – college friend!

Praise the Lord for fun times with family!

Pray for Cherry Run Camp July 27-Aug 4th, I’ll be the missionary speaker.

Pray for Women’s Prayer Breakfast, Aug. 1st – I’ll be a guest speaker.

Pray for the care provided to staff at Water Street Mission – Aug. 8th.

Pray for transitional stress training I’ll be facilitating at Hershey Nazarene Church, Aug. 17th.

Pray for community in the new church I am attending and how the Lord wants me to join them in what they are doing.

Pray for wisdom, discernment, and insight as I meet with people either one-on-one or debriefs.

 

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