Good byes suck!!!!!!!!!!

Posted in General Articles by Chad Heap on 5/6/2008

This is I i feel as I am starting to say good bye to people I have minstered to in the last nine months of my life. It is not easy letting go but I am exicted to see where God takes me next. I love what one of my teammates told a lady today she said you know that we may not see each other again here on earth but think how awesome it will be to see each other in heaven. I know i will miss my kids that I played with and just the familys lifes who I touched in a way no one else could. I look back to when things fell apart here on our team and as I am sitting here i am thankful that God allwoed me to stay here and be a part of peoples lifes. I hope to move here in the future and contuine my realtionships if God will let me. so we will see.

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Fiesta Time!!!!

Posted in General Articles by Chad Heap on 5/3/2008

Ok so this week i thought I would share photos from a birthday party I helped throw for some kids here in Mexico. It was so cool because this was there first ever piÑata. They were really exicted and so here are pics and a video from the party.

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I am not a Super Hero

Posted in General Articles by Chad Heap on 4/26/2008

Since I have been here it has been so awesome to just help the people and just really build the relationships we have. Lately I have been a little fustared it seems like everywhere we go people Our just saying give me give me, and it is hard to say no and just not try to give into there every need. for example we build a house for a lady and during that time we were talking to people avout it and they were like well can you build me a house or where is mine and I am tinking we are not super heros and we do have alot of money we just can't jump and meet every need that comes our way. Like someone was telling me the other day you can only do so much for people for they get were they are depndind on you for everything. For me when I see a need the servant part of me is just wanting to jump in and help but sometimes helping is just beyond our reach and we can,t do anything. It really kind of aggravetedme the other day when i visted a lady and i aplogized because we had not been there in awhile, and i explained we had been busy bulding a house and helping with a project that was buliding houses. She grabbed me and started telling me of here need and was very forceful with saying well why can't you help me and build me a house and we told her before she has to have her own land. Also while we were there a man aproached and asked if we can help this other family who had 4 girls and a dad and a mom. The story was a little crazy they had been living in Texas but the dad had been deported to Mexico and they had no place to go so they were asking us to help and we were like this is beyond what we can do but we ended up taking them to our church and someone there helped them. I guess my point is that I have been to realize yes help the those in need but you can't just keep helping if they are going to keep begging you for more and more and want a dependce from you. So please pray as I am leaving in 2 weeks that I can help were I can and not feel guilty if I can't help someone because no i know that sometimes it just isn't fesable.

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feelling like i am Walking alone

Posted in General Articles by Chad Heap on 4/19/2008

Since there has been a change in my team and now the last guy on my team is gone it has been really hard being the only guy. When you don´t have someone other than a girl to tlak to or hang out with it gets kind of lonely. The other night I was just in my room alone and feeling like man i wish i had someone to just talk to and I felt the lord just saying I am here. So I just began to pray and cry out to him and really i am not alone I have him right there walking beside me. It is not easy not having another guy to always hang out with. It was really cool this last week when we were bulding a house for a family that i know pretty well, we had some other guys help us it was awesome to have them to just help and hang out with. I guess what I am pretty much trying to say is I miss the community of guys we once had here on my team. I know i can make 3 more weeks because I have God walking right beside me

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Growth

Posted in General Articles by Chad Heap on 4/11/2008

This week was huge in many ways. We had a group come from johnson ferry baptist church from Georgia come this week. They had 260 people plus us. We helped as staff for the project. My role was helping translate for construction and also helping with encouragement. i worked with a few different teams in that role and I did well for as much spanish as I know. i began to see God shaping me for this summer and preparing me for my leadership role in Kentucky. I had a couple of times where he just really spoke to me through others. I had been kind of feeling like my original role which was supposed to be vacation bible school was not important but God told me different through someone else. that person told me God said your role is important. That was big for me. Also I just began to feel not important as a person and was praying about some of that and again God spoke to me through some one else and they said chad you are a joy to have around that really rocked my world. How when I had to times where i felt down God showed up and met me where I was. Also I have had some other things that I need to learn to just express my self and not hold back my true feelings keeping them inside is just causing me destruction. God is really open me to this. I began to just lash out at a person i was angry with and come to find out today he is no longer going to be my leader not because of that but because of his actions. I have mixed emotions when it comes to this i really can't explain it is hard right know I am still processing. I feel God is making me to step up and have the courage i need to fight the spirtual battles in me and around me. Please pray for the rest of my time here as i will be the only male living with 9 girls. I am not worried about it yeah it will be different but a new challenge. I have great support in a guy who is helping our team and I have my Mexico family to talk to and i can also talk to my teammates. so here I go on a journey of a different kind until the end in may 15.

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A lesson in Leadership

Posted in General Articles by Chad Heap on 3/22/2008

This week My whole team is back out at the Gateway an AIM base here in Mexico. We helped with a group of High School students from Alabma. Our role was to help answer any questions that they may have, take them to minstry sites and help them with prayer walking. How was this a lesson in leadership you may ask well let me tell you. I was kind of put in charge of leading a group to my internship at the youth detetion center. I enjoyed the first day and it went well, the second day was when the lesson began I had to figure out how to get 20 people leaders and students from the YDC back to the Gateway mind you we only had one van. not everbody would fit. I had a plan to take me and the leaders on the bus but when the translator heard he began to complicate my plan which i knew would work. He didn't want to listen and hee tried just doubting my ability to work it out. I had it under control and yes my plan worked out. Early that week the same translator tried to get me to take a group to burger king instead of going back to the base when we were supposed to. He said oh if we get caught will just say it was your idea. Part of me was like yeah this sounds great but I am not going to jepordize myself for his hunger so i didn't do it. I really had a great week other than this. The team was great and i got to just hang out and talk to the kids. The best part was at the YDC when one of the leaders gave his testimony it was perfect for them because he had been where they are. Well i can't tihkn anymore so that is all for know.

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just a few random thoughts

Posted in General Articles by Chad Heap on 3/8/2008

This is tough as i am sitting trying to gather my thoughts of what to talk about. i feel like i am drawing ablank here. Well I guess I can tlak about what I have been up to here. This week in class we have been talking about inner healing and prophesy. It has been well to hear what they have been sharing. I have really felt the spirit this week. thursday was the day when i could really sense the spirits power. I just had been doingquiet time and I have been reading a bible study and that day it was on God´s love, and i hadfelt lead to read reading in Isiah 50 verse 6 .  I offered my back to those who beat me,
       my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard;
       I did not hide my face
       from mocking and spitting. This verse just really made me think of his love and how i should stand up and not care who comes against but to just contuine fighting for him.Also during worship/class time we were singing i can´t remember the song but it was something on love, and as i sat there i just began to sob because i could just sense the loving arms of the spirit right there with me. It was so awesome.Then on friday We had a class on prophsey it was very good and after they prayed propheticaly into our lives. they told me that they could see I would be a runner in the spirit and that i would carry the message of God every through my feet, also that I was like a young David, and That I would be a dancer in the spirit and with this dancing that i should dance in worship and this would bring inner healing for me. How crazy I don´t dance, i practially have to left feet. I feel some confrimation in my life on one toher thing they said that iwould go where God has already established minstry and thing is that i am going to be a project leader this summer hopefully in kentucky for about 9 weeks.Also Minstry is going well We have really got back into the things we have been doing. . well anyway this is just a few random thoughts.

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Join the Awakening: Discipleship & Missions

Posted in General Articles by Seth Simonson on 2/29/2008

Awaken to the Adventure

Disciples aren't born; they're made. It's a process that takes time, discipline, and God. In reality, it looks more like waking up than attending a class.

As part of The Awakening, you can undergo a discipleship program like no other, experiencing four months of intense training in another country to prepare you for the ministry that awaits you for the rest of the year.

Join The Awakening

Your mornings will be spent in training and your afternoons ministering in local communities, activating what you've learned. In the context of experiential learning, you will be discipled by mentors who want to see you grow deeply in your faith.

You will be part of a community of other individuals who share your passion and desire to come alive in Christ. This time will challenge and stretch you in new ways, and you will never be the same.

Become a part of The Awakening in either Latin America or Africa and discover your role in the kingdom of God.

You were made for greatness, to experience the abundant life and freedom that Jesus promised. As they awaken, current participants are saying:

I don't think that I will ever have such an opportunity to give up all of myself and all of my expectations as I do here. (Emily Tissot, Latin America)

The Bible study has... turned into a church. So, we have church at noon Tuesday-Friday under the tree in front of the market. I love watching as people just bring their stool/chair/water container... and join in the singing. We are going through the book of Galatians, and it is cool to see how freedom is effecting their hearts. (Denise Eckert, Africa)

For more on The Awakening, visit the First-Year Missionary website.

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Moving On!!!!!!!

Posted in General Articles by Chad Heap on 2/26/2008

We are moving onward. last friday we returned to our neighborhoods to vist for the first time in two weeks and it was a very sad and joyful time. The people had no clue what was going on why we hadn't been there and why there was no church. There were rumors floating around but nobody knew the truth all they wanted was the truth. As i sat and saw their faces I began to see where I was 2 weeks ago right there where they were hungry for the truth and what was going on. All they wanted was the truth so they could be at peace and we told them what was best for them to hear. They comforted us by giving us coke and pie. It was just a time of fellowship. My favorite part was seeing a man i haven't seen in a while and just running up to him to get a hug. i am not a huggy person but for some reason i needed a hug. I have really enjoyed the time i get to vist with a fellow male beliver it is awesome. Then on saturday 5 of my teammates returned home because they felt like this is where God is calling them at this time. so there are 7 of us left tto move on and contuine the battle before us. We have also been moving these last couple of days. We have a 5 bedroom 3 1/2 bath house they we are going to be living in starting tommrow. We will be moving onward with our minstrys and contuine to move forward in the battle that we have before us. so please pray for us as things are begining to move forward and for the changes before us. I am exicted to see how the rest will unfold. If any of my teammates that went home are reading this I miss you. stay tuned for pics of our new house.

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Decisons!Decisions!!!!!!!!!!

Posted in General Articles by Chad Heap on 2/20/2008

So these last couple of weeks have been filled with decisions. Last week our team was given terrible news that our mexico leader who had been minstering here for 15 years had commited moral faliure. This sturck our team in awe. People where then given decisions to make. He was no longer going to be our leader and we have been given the choice to see the program thorugh our go home. For me the decision was somewhat easy. I am tired of giving up and giving in when times get rough. I am so sick of the devil and i am not going to let him have victory over me or my team. why should i cower in fear and tuck tail and go home. God has called me to Mexico for a reason and unless he tells me so iam not going to leave i am going to stand up and move on with the progra. things are going to be diffrent minstrys may change but I am willing to stick it out. As of know some of my teammates have decided to go home and will be leaving saturday.. I will miss them, I respect their decision and know that they are doing waht they feel God has called them to do. I am hoping only the best for them. please pray for them and pray for us that have decdied to declare war with the enmy and contuine to battle. This week has been good we have been processing things still and helping lead a group from canada. We have been doing gardening in the morning and outreaching in the afternoon. So other than that hings our great.

some things to pray about:

please pray for my team as things change.

please pray as the leaders are looking for housing for the girls

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