Thankful

As we are coming into the Christmas season, most of us get to reflect on all that Jesus has done for us. There is the personal aspect of it and then the huge reality that He saved the whole world, and that all who would like to be a part of his eternal love, can be.

This last year has been so hard for all of us, with the unknowing, the tension and the unrest. There has also been so much to praise God for! So many miracles.

If you haven’t heard, I got my R1 visa accepted this last month! Accepted during wildfires in California (Where the USCIS office is), an election and a pandemic. I had so much around me to be a good reason why I wouldn’t get it, yet God’s word stood.

I want to share with you a testimony of what God did this summer in our kids. The summer seems so long ago, but this is a testimony of something that is continuing daily here. We just have physical proof of it. On week one of our summer camp, Camp Hope, we got every one of our kids to draw their self-portrait. Except to explain what that really was, we didn’t give them much direction, so it was purely them. 7 weeks later at the end of the camp, we asked them to do the same thing, again, without interfering.

The differences are huge! When I saw this, I cried as I got to see what God had done in some of our new kids in just 7 weeks. You see that they know who they are way more, their emotions are healthier, and their self-esteem grew! Then I got to thinking about our kids that we have had come to us for years, and the differences I see in them! Kids who used to throw chairs at you and get so angry very quickly, now walk in peace. Peace from an all-knowing heavenly father that is teaching them who they are. Peace that means that they now lack nothing, as when you have His peace you have everything.

When you live in this peace you live in a place of being content and your sustained. Our kids know it.

Please continue to pray for them, their families and our adult friends that come and play in our basketball gym, get food monthly and work and learn in our woodshop. Plus our team of missionaries.

I would like to send out my thanks for you. I need family around me to pray for me and support me. We all do! Know that I am here for you also. If you ever feel alone, do reach out to me as I would love to pray with you!

2020 can’t steal from us, but God’s mercy, miracles and beauty gets to reign! Jesus came, Jesus won!

Merry Christmas!

4 years

I haven't written here for over a year now. Not due to lack, but simply out of changing the way I share; however, 4 years of being at We Will Go, is a great milestone to celebrate!

The number '4' in Hebrew and the Bible represents: creation, wholeness, complete, pathways to Him, etc. The number '4' is shown through the letter 'Dalet'. It can represent the name of God and also 'lowliness'. I see it as, the places where we have the choice to open ourselves up to God. I am ready for Him to be fully in this next year, even in those deepest places.

When I first moved here in 2016, I lived in a house called 'Love House'. I have since moved to 'Faith', 'Hope,' and now 'Life House'. Each place has taken me deep into what God has for me around each title. Since turning 32, God has taken me back to the start and has taught me a lot more about His 'love' all over again.

'You don't believe that I love you Ruth' He says to me, with comfort wrapped in His gentle tone. I argue with Him and wonder where He is coming from. He then takes me through scripture and reminds me of things I have said to prove me wrong. He always has access to my heart as long as I remain open. God has gone deep and revealed hurts and insecurities that I didn't know I needed to deal with. 

With going deep in His love, I get to learn how to grow my roots even deeper. Something else God began to teach me in 2016. My thoughts varied echoed, 'I wasn't meant to be here this long.' 'I was only meant to be here for a few months, and then a year, then two.' In 2016 He began taking me through Jeremiah 17v8.

'They will be like a tree planted by the water

    that sends out its roots by the stream.

It does not fear when heat comes;

    its leaves are always green.

It has no worries in a year of drought

    and never fails to bear fruit.'

He showed me the posture He wanted me in. Full of faith with no fear, going deep and standing firm.

In my 4th year, I now look at what God did on the 4th day. He created all the aspects I need to place my roots deep. He made the ground, trees, dirt. This year is the year of things being complete...me being able to put my roots deep.


To be truly rooted in something, it needs to be on the inside out. Everything that God has placed in me gets to go deep.

I am excited for another great year! Excited to be whole in Him.

He is my solid ground. He is enough.