If you notice my blog has a new tab at the top… Yesu Asobola. If you go to that tab you will find the ministry info and website that will tell you all about the visions and goals of this ministry. Right now I want to share with you why my family has chosen to partner with Yesu Asobola.
A couple of months ago our homeschool co-op was having registration for our 2013-2014 school year… and in walked this lively woman with a beautiful array of eight children to register at our co-op from all different nationalities and backgrounds. I love diversity and open minds and open hearts and from the moment I saw this woman I knew I would like her…
As I showed her around the co-op and we talked about her children she shared with me that there were even more! She has two children by birth and she and her husband have adopted nine. Then she shared with me how one of her daughters, who had just recently graduated high school, yes high school people, high school. This daughter graduated high school with intentions of attending college to become a human rights lawyer… she went on a mission trip to Uganda… and through God’s beautiful weaving of relationships she and two other young girls founded Yesu Asobola. Three girls with a heart for God and a willingness to dream big and submit to His will were given a dream to start an orphanage and help the women and children in this village and God has moved on their behalf.
For where two or three have gathered together in My name,
I am there in their midst.
Matthew 18:20
I fell in love with this ministry because it embodies everything I have taught my own girls and those in my past college classes and now those in my children’s classes… God wants to do amazing things through us, if we are willing to listen and obey.There is not an age limit, geographical limit, or financial limit to our God.
I adore this mother for embracing her daughters dream with willing support instead of telling her how crazy she was and how she needed to go to college first and get her degree. I adore this mother for embracing her daughters dream and saying, Uganda? Really? Uganda? Amazing! I am so excited for you! This will be a beautiful journey of faith! (I don’t know if she really said those exact words, I just imagine that she would have). When most mothers would have said, Absolutely NOT! Over my dead body!
I believe God brings all people into our life for a reason… the people you meet are there to help you learn more about yourself and more about God… I believe He brought this family into my family’s life for a purpose and I intend to find out what that purpose is… so we are joining the dream and the journey.
This is why Yesu Asobola…
I encourage you to check it out.
I encourage you also as mothers and fathers of the children who are the body of Christ, would you be willing to let your children dream outside the box of college degree… and allow them the freedom to be as the wind?
The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it,
but do not know where it comes from and where it is going;
so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.
John 3:8
Here is Kristianna’s latest blog post update on the progress of Yesu Asobola:
We set out to raise $2,000-, that would almost bring us to the amount needed to drill a well for Onyerai village.
I’ll be honest, when we started I didn’t think it could be done and I was a bit hopeless. In the first 6 days, we had absolutely no donations.
Well, God taught me two things these last couple weeks:
1. Trust Him.
2. When you trust Him all heaven breaks loose and the blessings fall.
In the last 8 days we raised $4,275.
With our donor agreeing to match up to $2,000 it brought our total up to$6,275.
Do you know what that means?!
That means, along with money previously raised, Onyerai village is going to have a well!
God is so good, friends!
We have seen Him continually bless us through unexpected gifts, and have seen the body of Christ stand up for Onyerai village. God is doing something big through us.
We are so overjoyed at your love and so thankful to every.single.person. who has donated, prayed or hosted an event for us in the last couple of weeks.
So, what’s next?
Next, we are hoping to raise $7-10,000 for a van to drive to and from the village, and provide transport to the hospital- or to school if needed.
~Kristianna
“Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.”
-Corrie Ten Boom