Because that's just who God is...

Ok, so i have to document all this or there's no way you would believe me. so, i am working until all hours of the night last night putting all the donations we have in faith album supplies in my computer, with all the donors and what they donated...it's OVERWHELMING because literally hundreds of albums and supplies have been donated from all over the U.S. and i get at least 2-3 boxes everyday in the mail and from UPS...i think people in clyde are wondering if i'm doing something illegal..lol

anyway, a friend of mine from college is going to ghana with a group of college kids (GOD MOMENT #1) and I talked to him last week and he said they would be willing to help us get our supplies to ghana so we didn't have to pay for shipping and of course, our little group of 7 from Clyde can't take the HUGE amount of albums suppplies that we have for the 170+ kiddos and house moms that are going to make a faith album...so of course this alone was a HUGE GOD THING! I mean of all the groups going to ghana, it just happens to be a group from Edmond, OK who my friend Jeff McMillon from college is leading and they are going in May (3 months before us)...yeah, I know God is on His throne LOVING that He's being so obvious about his hand in all this!

So anyway...I stayed up till REALLY LATE last night getting it all organized and putting it in packing boxes so my sweet husband doesn't divorce me for having albums and boxes covering our gameroom from floor to ceiling for the next 4 months...(lol)...so I got the albums packed up and most of the pages and protectors and I was hoping to take some of the boxes to Ft. Worth this weekend and have Kelly (a friend coming from Edmond for me to take her pictures) take some of them home with her, even though she has a really little car and most likely wouldn't be able to take very many boxes...at least I could get a couple of them out of our house and to Jeff...

Well...my friend Lindsey who God sent to Clyde as a guardian angel and precious new friend came to my house for lunch today....she'd never been to my house and we'd been trying to do lunch for the past 2 weeks...well it JUST SO HAPPENED (GOD MOMENT #2) that she walks in my door, sees all the albums and boxes stacked to the ceiling and I tell her that I have to get them to Edmond, OK...she looks at me and says, "I'm going to Bartlesville today and I think Edmond is a city I go through on my way when I looked on my map, do you want me to take them to Edmond for you?" NOT KIDDING!!! We pulled it up on MSN and sure enough, she is driving RIGHT through where Jeff lives....so we took the 161 albums that were boxed up ready to go and guess what...they fit PERFECTLY in her trunk...every single box!

So...because God is who He is and His plans are perfect and wonderful, Lindsey is on her way right now to see her boyfriend in Bartlesville with 8 boxes of faith albums in her trunk for Jeff.

I LOVE GOD MOMENTS...and I love my sweet GOD! Everyday He shows me another reason to trust him...and He gives me yet another glimpse of how much He loves us an takes care of us...because that's just who God is...

God's constant reminders....

daily God sends something...a check, an album (or 15) a call, an email, a text....something to remind me that this africa trip is ALL ABOUT HIM and ALL FOR HIS GLORY and that He's thought of EVERYTHING (go figure)! I love it!

There's a sense of anticipation and i'm not going to lie...i'm the fly by the seat of my pants kinda gal...i'm the one making it up as we go, and i work really well under pressure...so this is a little out of my gifting...planning i mean...making sure that we have our shots and that i get all the supplies organized and that a trip to ghana africa is not something you just hop on a plane and go do...you know?

so, we're going to start meeting every thursday night as a ghana group to pray, ask God to guide our thoughts and every step of this mission...to get to know each other deeply and to share our hearts and our thoughts and to love each other more so we can go love these children with everything in us!

Please pray for us...please pray for me, to have time to do the "real life" things I have to do too...(like take and edit pictures for my real job..lol)...its a little overwhelming and I just need peace and time management which don't come very easily to me most days.

Pray for these children, who God is preparing for us to meet, pray that we are instantly bonded to them in every way..and that they can feel and see in us the love of Jesus....

thank you....for everything that all of you have done to help make this mission trip possible and even more such a blessing for the girls involved.

loving my Father....thanking Him for knowing the future and knowing that He has planned in that future protection and His perfect will....all before we were even born....k

Abums albums albums....God is GOOD!

I would say I can't believe how many albums have been donated, but once again, I STAND AMAZED AT GOD and HIS BLESSINGS!!!

So many precious CM consultants have mailed albums from all over the U.S. to us, that we almost have enough to do faith albums with the 4th graders at the orphange too!!! Is God good or what! THANK YOU...to all of you who have sent supplies to bless these children and leave a legacy in their life of the LOVE OF THEIR HEAVENLY FATHER. :)

I will be taking pictures soon and then figure out how to post them so you can all see the albums and pages that have lined the floor of my gameroom! WOW!!!

There are no words...but THANK YOU...for your heart and your gift of an album for EVERY CHILD...and that's what CM is about.....

Why to I doubt God...

After ALL the miracles and all the blessings from God that I have not only seen with my own eyes, but have taken pictures of and have recorded in numerous albums so I never forget...why do I still doubt God...

It's not even that I doubt Him as much as it is I forget to TOTALLY TRUST and TOTALLY RELY on my Father. I know He must get frustrated with his child Kimberli.

AGAIN, and ALWAYS, He is providing!!! God laid on our hearts before we ever started planning our trip to Ghana to do faith albums with these precious children at the Village of Hope. We decided to do 7x7 because they are the perfect size and there were lots of albums left for us to purchase...well...Creative Memories sold out of these albums unexpectedly at the first of the year and I was, let's just say, VERY frustrated. :)

Creative Memories consultants came shinging through (as always) because their hearts are full of love and generosity! We sent out an email explaining that we desperately needed 75 more albums and in just one week, we have a big chunk of this goal already donated! Yes, God is GOOD and He always provides for His children....another God Moment for me to journal in my own faith album!

Thank you God and thank you CM Consultants for allowing God to use you to share a blessing with a child who may not meet you until we're all in heaven together...

God Moments

There have already been so many, but I want (and will try) to share them all. I will start with this one today. There's a little girl named Anna in Bedford, how I know her...well, i really only know her mom Jerri because of the sovereignty of God:

jerri's cousin lisa had leukemia 7 years ago so jerri grew her hair to sell it as a blessing
i met and worshipped with debra and brian, about 7 years ago in southlake
God asked tracy and I to start a ministry called faithbuilders 5 years ago
jerri's son grew his hair a few years later to donate too
debra met jerri and her son at gymnastics because he had long hair, then cut it
i got an email from tracy telling me to pray for brian and debra a year and 1/2 ago
God called me to meet in person with brian and speak truth into the lies - i was obedient
jerri and i met (for 5 minutes) a few months later because we were prayer warriors for brian and debra
jerri and I prayed and emailed and had a friendship through debra over the past year 1/2
God ordained tracy and i to take some teen girls to africa this summer
i sent an email out to my prayer warriors and friends about africa...jerri got the email
and then God had Jerri send the below email:


A few weeks ago, Anna, my 11-year old daughter, found out that children in Africa eat clay cookies. You probably know about this. I did not. There is so little food and so much hunger that the adults make cookies from the clay, and the children eat them to stave off their hunger pains. This broke Anna’s heart. “Mom, we have to help them have food. How can we do that?” She even mentioned Mary and her work, and she said, “But, Mom, we need to help the children eat NOW.” Either that day or the day before was when I got your email, and I knew as soon as I read your email, we were supposed to sow into your vision. Then Anna said that, and I said, “Anna, I know a lady who is going to Africa for the purpose of the children.” I thought she would get all excited. Instead, her body sort of slumped in a relaxed way, as though a weight had been removed from her, and she asked, “We are helping, right?” When I nodded, she said, “Oh, thank God.”

Again, isn’t that just like our DADDY?

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Because my friend Jerri ONLY listens to the Holy Spirit, she said she knew God had asked her to help us financially but was waiting to God to put the same amount on her husband's heart that He has on hers...we received her check this weekend. It doesn't end there...her husband's company matches dollar for dollar their employers donations to 501c3 organizations so God just DOUBLED their gift....isn't that just like our DADDY....

I love God Moments....and I love Jerri and I love Tracy and I love Brian and I love Debra...and most of all, I love our DADDY.