Shannon's Corner

SHANNON’S CORNER August 2020 Thank you for your prayers in regard to the Dominican Republic’s presidential elections on July 5 th  as they went very smoothly.  The new president-elect, Luis Abinader will take office I believe in August. The country opened up completely for the elections to be held and to start up their tourism again but the rise of COVID cases and deaths has also gone up.  The DR has issued a 45-day National State of Emergency starting July 21 st  until September 3 rd .   Mostly reinstating curfews to help contain the spread of COVID.  But they are hoping to still keep the country open to tourism.  The plan is for the schools to start on August 24 th  but some uncertainty in how it will be done.  Please continue to be praying for wisdom and energy and strength to all our leaders, staff, kids and missionaries. There are some exciting things that are happening in our ministry....

SHANNON’S CORNER June 2020 Do you feel like you have been doing all the right things, yet you have run smack dab into a 30-foot-high wall that seems impassable?  Maybe your wall is COVID-19 or the Black Lives Matter Movement or unemployment or fear or uncertainty??  Take a moment and name your wall that seems so impassable.  Joshua felt like he did all the right things that was asked of him and yet he walked into a 30-foot-high wall that stood in his way to get to the Promised Land.  God gave Joshua a very unexpected strategy which was to march around the wall once for six days and on the seventh day to march around the wall seven times and then blow the trumpets and have the people shout and the walls came tumbling down.  Maybe God has a very unexpected strategy for you to reach your end goal.  Are you willing to obey like Joshua?  Which lap are you in?  Don’t give up because even if you cannot ...

SHANNON’S CORNER April 2020 God is good all the time.  All the time God is good.  This is one truth of God that has been engrained into my core.  I don't have to think about it.  I don't have to process it.  I just know it's true.  In this time of uncertainty, I know that God is good.  It is who He is.  I can see His goodness and kindness in each an every day.  I want to share with you God's goodness that I have seen this past month. Kite flying God's goodness in his creation all around me.  It's spring time, seeing the robins, cardinals, blue jays, the tulips, the trees budding and some are blooming.  Seeing the bunnies hopping around and the squirrels jumping from branch to branch. God's goodness in allowing me to stay healthy, physically and emotionally by getting out and walking and just being in His creation.   God's goodness and kindness in growing me in my spiritual walk with Him through a ...