Hi Everyone,
It has been a long time since I sent out an actual News letter and mailed it to all my non- email using friends and supporters. I am sorry for that. You get used to just posting things on the blog site and expect everyone to know what is going on with you. When I started to think about it I realized, if I am not reminded, I don’t go to blog sites and check up on my friends; so maybe they don’t do that either. I don’t want to loose track of you all. I want to remind you how important you have all been to my life and ministry.
I was working in my office trying to put away some things I brought home from my son and daughter-in-law’s house where they had been sitting for about two years. There were a lot of things from my time with Mercy Ships. I found an envelope with a bunch of cards and notes encouraging me when I broke my leg within the first month of sailing with Mercy Ships. Once I started reading them, I was encouraged anew. It is funny how Satan tries to attack us with the same old discouragements again and again by just packaging them a little differently. Many of you may not realize (because I haven’t been writing as much) that I have been quite discouraged from time to time since embarking on this new journey with God to start a Crisis Pregnancy Center in Atascosa County. Well I have, and your past words of encouragement touched my heart all over again. Thank you again! And please don’t stop thinking of me and praying for me. I need your prayers.
Here is one of the scriptures you sent me almost five years ago. It still works! Praise The Lord!!
“Dear brothers and sisters, whenever trouble comes your way, let it be an opportunity for joy. For when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow, for when your endurance is fully developed; you will be strong in character and ready for anything.” James 1:2-4.
We had a great steering committee meeting this month. We had 10 people in attendance. Praise the Lord! We discussed how to use the bottles donated by FBC Splendora, Texas for the “Baby Bottle Boomerang” fund raiser. We also received some large size bottles to place in businesses. We have already started to distribute them. We also made further plans concerning the fund raising banquet. Our hope is to have it before the end of the year.
On a personal note, I was blessed by Pastor Kerry(left) and Frenchy (right), from FBC Splendora! They came and chopped down and mowed the jungle I was living in. I didn’t have a lawn mower of my own and had been out of town quite a bit as well. I had bunches of small china berry trees growing everywhere. To make a long story short, it had really gotten out of hand. Praise the Lord again for the help of these two great guys!
Continue to pray for:
· Financial support
· Volunteers
· My personal finances and family situation.
In Him,
Collene Myers
The Refuge
Atascosa Pregnancy Care Center
830-569-5883
TheRefugeAtascosa@yahoo.com
http://www.therefugeinatascosa.blogspot.com/
(Ps. 139:13 NIV)
