Nancy’s Kitchen

Class was absolutely terrific!!  Our teacher is full of vitality and enthusiasm!  I expect to learn so much in this class!  Oh, yes.  ASL is her first language, so that adds a great dynamic to this class.  Reminds me of the TESOL method I took earlier this year.  Just jump right in and start using the language!! 

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Today I’m excited and having a litte apprehension- anticipation as I go to my first American Sign Language class at the local community college!!  I can’t wait to be able to sign with my deaf granddaughters!!

Addy uses assistive listening devices, so she is hearing and speaking but without them she is totally deaf! She is bi-lingual. Anna is still in Russia waiting for paperwork to be completed and for Steve & Jodi (our “kids”) to go find her and get God’s confirmation if she is to be their daughter, too.  She is also deaf.

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I’ll blog more when I get the chance, but right now I’m on my way out the door to the bus to go to the Kazanluk Gypsies (Roma) where we will host a feast for 5,000 Gypsies!

Yesterday, we had three outreaches, beginning with a government orphanage, a small Gypsy community with a new church beginning, and ending with a huge party in Kazanluk. We found compassion and the soothing power of the Holy Spirit in the orphanage and healings galore in the little Gypsy community!  Deaf ears are hearing, dim eyes are seeing, painful legs and ankles are painfree, fist-sized abdominal lumps are gone, breast lumps are gone, and many many more wonderful illustrations of Jesus’ mercy and love.  People are finding Jesus’ love and forgiveness with tears and joy, many responded to invitations to train for pastors, apostles, teachers, missionaries… 

Much more to tell, but that’s all for now.  I must run!!

Love to you all.

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The Global Celebration team is in Bulgaria!  We have had an awesome three days!  For instance, last night we made a “surprise visit” to a small gypsy camp, the poorest group in Varna GC has found yet.  Turns out, it’s about 5 minutes from our hotel!   Sweet, sweet people!  So beautiful, so open, so receiving!  A number of people were healed, including one lady who’s many lumps in both breasts totally went away, and a man confined to a wheelchair got up and walked!  He walked with help, but he stopped every few steps to do some shallow knee-bends — as if to say, “Look! I can do this!”  It was totally AWESOME!!  Check out the link to Global Celebration above and see photos and the team journal!! 

Please keep praying, as we also encountered some drug-related people who were not at all happy about us being there, but all was quiet and peaceful.  One man called the police, but since we had committed no crimes, the policeman told his superiors that he could not legally stop us.  :-) 

Other healings include a tumor dissolved off a man’s back, a child with cerebral palsy’s muscles completely relaxed in her father’s arms, another child healed of a hearing loss, a man’s severe vision problems cleared up and he invited team members who visited him in his home to come stay at his house next year! 

Packages of bread, rice, oil, and other essentials were distributed in the small community in Varna.  In Romania, we provided food for a sheep-soup & bread feast with watermelon for dessert… this meal has been known to bring tears to the people’s eyes, who have not had this favorite dish in many years. 

Today we are in Nessebar, an ancient shipping port on the Black Sea.  This is a tourist place and we are taking a break before we go to another new work in a Gypsy community near Burgass.  We will stay in Burgass tonight and head for Kazanluk, stopping in a small community in Sliven on the way.

As I was sitting waiting for dinner last night, I was telling a new friend that when Richard asked me why I am going on this trip again this year, I told him that I need to fulfill a promise to Lubcho (Sophia church musician) to take my violin again.  So I am here.  However, as I told my friend, how could I NOT return again?!!   I love it here!!

By the way, for you Kansans reading this, much of Bulgaria’s landscape looks so very much like the Eastern Kansas peneplain (flat-topped hills) that we grew up in.  The elevations of the hills are higher, but the look is exactly the same!!  OH!  And fields full of sunflowers, too!!  SO BEAUTIFUL!  and SPACIOUS SKIES!! 

Love you all,

Nancy

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Back to the Gypsies…

As I sit in the car, being chauffered to Washington, D.C. to catch my plane, my brain feels like a whirlpool and I watch the long list of items and ask, did I bring them, or did I forget them?  I’m excited, but not the exhuberant excitement I’ve felt in past years.  I have a suitcase that most likely exceeds the weight limit, full of 91 boxes of crayons, 25 toothbrushes and tubes of toothpaste, little girl things, matchbox cars, stickers, stickers, & stickers, clothes.   I am thanking God for last-minute monetary gifts that will likely cover any excess weight charge!!

Whew!!!!!    I must somehow decompress from all this preparation while my emotions are building, looking forward with expectation to seeing my friends on the mission team as well as the Gypsy friends I’ve been making over the last 2 years!!  It’s a good thing that I DON’T have problems with HIGH blood pressure!!  ☺

My biggest anxiety points seem to be: 1.    Looking for the people I took pictures of last year so I can give them prints. 2.    Staying focused among so many people and activities.  PLEASE COVER ME IN PRAYER FOR THIS ONE!!  I want to be where my Heavenly Daddy wants me to be at every minute, with every person He wants me to connect with.  John 2:5 – I want to do what He tells me to do, and say what He tells me to say.

God has consistently told me through His messengers to “Just be you!  You cannot imagine all that Jesus is going to do!  Jesus!  It’s just that easy!”  When I had not spoken it to anyone, He said that I don’t have to be “adequate” for anything, to just be myself!  It’s about spilling out God’s Love (Jesus) and Light and Joy all over the people!!  “Well,” I thought, “I can do this!!”

“Love them, Nancy.  Just be you and let my power and my light flow from you.  Remember Paul?  ‘I come to you NOT with fancy words to wow you, but in the power of the spirit!’  (1 Cor 2:4)  I call you to love and encourage, to BE MY LIGHT.  Go to the highways and the byways and love my people.”

Wandering with His Purpose, Nancy

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