Hello
Lovelies,
It
finally happened it’s our birthday!!! Happy one year to us!
I’m so blessed to be running an organization
that really has blessed me and countless others ( that I don’t even know about). As I sit her and think about how a year ago-
I was sitting on my couch in my living room with only a name, trying to come up
with every reason in the book to God as to why I wasn't capable to do what he
was asking – God just kept saying trust
in me and follow my lead. I did and here we are a year later!!! I think about
all that the staff has dealt with in a year and I think being able to blog
about it to you all made it easier. J
There’s been sadness, depression, loneliness, heartbreak but through all the
downs there has been major ups- there’s been love, and joy, and friendships
formed but through it all we have been strengthened because we had to trust God
and his plan for our life. So today this
blog is to say Happy Birthday to us, and also to share where I hope and dream
we will be in another year!
So here’s
my dreams for Love’s Journey in the next year:
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I
want to see us reach more girls and young women
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I
want to have video blogs sometimes
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That
God continues to direct our path
Goals:
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That
we would start to fundraise
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Start
a building fund with the money raised
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I
want to take the steps to find out all about what I have to do to make us a
non-profit
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I
want to share Love’s Journey with lots of people and bring more people on board
I’m
so blessed to serve on Love’s Journey
and I think since It’s been a year I’ll share what our mission and
vision is here and if you want to know more about it you can go read some of
our starting blogs.
Our mission
is “ Love’s Journey exist to simply love on girls and young women and girls and
young women who are in human trafficking./modern day slavery who are having a
rough time in their lives and need someone to remind them that they are loved,
accepted, and known by the maker of the
universe
no matter what they have done or will do. “
Our
vision statement is simply to love on girls and young women we encounter in our
daily lives.
I want to end with a passage from the Bible “1 Corinthians 13
The
Message (MSG)
The Way of Love
13 If I
speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but
the creaking of a rusty gate.
2 If I
speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything
plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it
jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.
3-7 If I give
everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr,
but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I
believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.
Love
never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
I want to
say that this chapter really is the heart beat of Love’s Journey and I pray it
will be for a long time.
If you
could lovelies please keep our own staff member Yolanda in your prayers – she’s spending the summer
working for a company in South Africa and then when they get back she’s moving to Texas- I know she
would love your prayers.
Love,
Jessica
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