I have been blown away by God why he works, the way he works, and when he works.
He is such I big God teaching me new things each day. I want to sit at Your feet, drink from the cup in Your hands, lay back against you and breath, feel Your heartbeat. This love is so deep, it's more then I can stand, I melt in Your peace, it's overwhelming.


When I am found in him this is when my life makes sense. Lord fill me up so I can be poured out and all glory be to You alone. God is so Good!

The Holy Spirit

"It really is an astounding truth that the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you. He lives in me. I do not know what the Spirit will do or where He'll lead me each time I invite Him to guide me. But I am tired of living in a way that looks exactly like people who do not have the Holy Spirit of God living in them. I want to consistently live with an awareness of his strength. I want to be different today from what I was yesterday as the fruit of the Spirit becomes more manifest in me. I want to live so that I am truly submitted to the Spirit's leading on a daily basis. Christ said it is better for us that the Spirit came, and I want to live like I know that is true. I don't want to keep crawling when I have the ability to fly."
- Francis Chan


But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all, the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God and declare that God is really among you.
1 Corinthians 14:24&25

This something God has been teaching me the whole time in Honduras, and to this day he is teaching me. To stand to the power and to be made new in the Holy Spirit of God.
God gave me these wards today. The way God works blows my mind.

Remember

Today as you walk through life, preach the gospel everyday; if necessary use words
- Francis of Assisi
remember all God has done over the years in your life. We love a BIG GOD!

God has taken me all over the world

It is so humbling to see were God has called me. Over the years to share his love and power to his people.

Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches. 1 Corinthians 7:17

I am always in awe that God has called me to deeply love people all over the world. Because I am so unworthy, but if the God of the universe says GO how can you say no? and like my mother has always told me God dose not call the equipped but he equips the called.
GOD IS GOOD!!!!

More to come!

These storys are from the trip I was just on to Honduras. There are going to be more soon. I can not wait to sher the many ways God worked, and touched my heart.
ALL glory to our holy and big God !!!!!!!!!

we"re hoooooome!!

we’re hooooome!!

13 Jan

Party in the USA!! We’re home!!

Friends and fam, glory to the Father! We’ve made it home!! We started at 9am this morning, had emotion-filled goodbyes to our new best friends in Honduras, flew to Miami, almost missed our Miami flight to DFW because we were enjoying eachother’s company so much (woops!), and made it home safely to DFW right on time… God is so good! We are a changed people by the work of the Spirit. We have tasted and seen that HE IS GOOD. We have been entrusted with SO much and have SO much to tell! We look forward to telling you personal testimony to what we have seen, what we have heard, and what we now KNOW concerning our God and Father. You have played a HUGE part in our experience and we are FOREVER thankful for YOU and the way you’ve supported us, prayed for us, and praised God with us for what He’s done and is doing.

There is much more detail to update, and that WILL happen soon.. but we just wanted to let you know that we’re back to Dallas safely! Pray for Josh as he flies back to CO tomorrow, and for the rest of the team driving back to Tyler and then home tomorrow as well.

More to come soon! We love you! Glory to the FATHER through JESUS alone!
the woods honduras team

Best last day...SO sad to leave

best last day… SO sad to leave

12 Jan

Hola friends and family!
We’ve made it safely back to Cofradia — praise the Lord! Our day was precious and so fun… the perfect weather, sweet sweet time with our campers, and solid debrief time with our own team as well as the Hondurans. It was SO hard to see our campers drive away on the bus… but we had to remind ourselves, mid-tears, that we are simply the ones who get to plant and water seeds… and we FULLY TRUST our God to grow those kids and continue to draw them to Himself.

The fun surprise of the day was waiting for us when we got back to Cofradia. We pulled up, and as we got off the bus we were greeted by people of the church, some dressed in traditional latin dress, cheering for us Pine Cove style. We walked into the church and plated tables were waiting for us… with candle centerpieces and everything! They did a little (HILARIOUS) drama for us, we ate, learned how to dance, and got to hug the necks of the people we’ve fallen in love with while we’ve been here. It was goodbye for many of them, a few we’ll see tomorrow morning before we leave for the airport. We are SO SO blessed by the relationships and friendships that God has given us here… we are literally grieving as we leave them. However, we are excited to see yall when we’re back… there is LOTS of processing to do between now and then, so we can give you full yet concise (is that possible? haha) details on all the things we’ve seen God do here. We are SO excited to testify to His work!

We leave tomorrow (Thursday) at 9am to go to the airport, depart time is 2:10… and then be back home by tomorrow night — another update then! I really am so sorry that these are getting shorter and shorter… but know that Friday there is going to be some major blogging going on… and hopefully a TON of pictures (we have over 1500 to choose from!… woops! haha!)

We love you and are VERY thankful for the way you’ve faithfully prayed for us and supported us as we’ve been here. Please keep praying as we travel, debrief, process, and walk where God takes us! We love you!

because of the grace given us by JESUS,
the woods honduras team