Hola from Paraguay!
It is hard
to believe that we have been in Paraguay for 1 week! We have been walking through lots of
transition as a family. We are staying
at another mission’s guesthouse while we look for a home to rent. Our children have been enrolled and are
attending Asuncion Christian Academy.
The school schedule is new for us homeschoolers and we are trying to
adjust! This means lots of early
mornings! (For mommy this means getting up at 5am!) The good news is that we get to see a
beautiful sunrise each day.
Transition
is hard and the truth is we are being stretched. There have been challenges…but we remember
that OUR GOD, OUR LOVING FATHER is
the one who called us here. WE ARE
TRUSTING HIM. We are struggling yet
we trust Him. We are walking in a new
dying to ourselves as we trust OUR GOOD
GOD.
This week God has
been speaking to me through this passage
Acts 17: 26 “From one
man he made all the people of the world. Now they live all over the earth. He
decided exactly when they should live. And he decided exactly where they should
live. 27 God
did this so that people would seek him. Then perhaps they would reach out for
him and find him. They would find him even though he is not far from any of us.”
In God’s
goodness He decided that people would live here in this city, in these days so
that they could hear from us the good news of the gospel. The people of Paraguay are a needy people
without much hope, and we have the greatest hope to give them!
-Please pray
for us to find a place to live so that we can settle in.
-Pray that
we could raise funding to quickly set up a home with basic needs and buy a
vehicle.
-Pray that
we would have God’s heart for the people around us.
-Pray that
our children would experience God’s love and grace in this transition.
-Pray for
John Saapia and family (one of our teammates who is headed to the USA today for
surgery to change his pacemaker battery and lead.)
Thank you so
much for your emails and Facebook messages! They have been encouraging! Love Carlos,
Lily, Carly, Elia and Lucas Saavedra.
If
you would like to give you can do that online! Go to https://secure.cmalliance.org/give/ Type in our names in the area where it says give to international
workers. Three big needs that we have right now are our “outfit” which is
all we need to set up a home in a new country, a vehicle, or our “work” which
is ministry expenses.
