Passion.

Passion.  
It is what moves you, drives you.  
Supposedly what you do stems from a passion that you have.  If you are a teacher, you have a passion to teach. 

I have lived my life as a missionary here in Mexico driven by passion.  Passion to work with kids, passion to see their lives transformed.  However God has been showing me something important about passion these past few weeks that has surprised me.  

We are in the process of starting up a few safe houses to work with girls on the streets.  It is very exciting to see all of the contacts that God has put in my path.  Actually it is quite amazing and a complete miracle.  I won't go into great detail, but He is working...

• A girl in Guadalajara who used to walk the streets is showing me the ropes of what it looks like to minister to the girls.
• A trafficking ministry in Nicaragua that has worked in Mexico & South America has invited me to train under them in Nicaragua.
• Contact with trained individuals who can do the dangerous operations of going into a brothel or cantina where the girls are at to rescue them.
• Contacts in Immigration for girls trafficked from other countries
• Churches here in Guadalajara wanting to back up the project
• Various key people in Guadalajara and Chapala dedicated to the project
• A group of prayer warriors praying for the project
• Other training materials, healing through art, etc.  
• Contact with a Christian Senator whose platform is human trafficking

All of these contacts have come to me without me even searching.

You would think this would passion me.  That this would increase the passion I have for the project.  But honestly it hasn't. 

Am I excited?  Yes.
Am I amazed at what God is doing in such a short time?  Yes.
Is this project what moves me or passions me?  No.

I think before I was moved or passionate about projects, ministries.  At first I was worried that this project didn't give me passion.  But over the past few days God has really been speaking to me through His Word and through others that He is to be my passion.  I think as we mature and grow He starts to show us His excitement for what He wants to do without us being overwhelmed by our emotions.  With Him as our passion we can have a level head to make decisions and start up projects like this.

This is something completely necessary for this type of ministry.  We are faced with tragic stories left and right.  
Girls 10, 12 years old, orphans, scooped up and forced to be raped hour after hour.  Locked down.  Drugs.  Alcohol.  Hopelessness.  Helplessness.  Numbness.






I wish I could paint a nicer picture that would make a "feel good story", but this is reality. 

At first I thought my lack of passion was because something was wrong with me.  But now I praise God that He is my passion.  I would not be able to wake up everyday and see these things going on if He were not my passion, the reason I live. 

It is a dark and overwhelming world,
But He is guiding.
He is leading. 
He is what drives me.
He is my passion.
I am called to walk in obedience towards Him and move according to what passions His heart.

Map- Training Trip from Guadalajara-Pachuca-Mexico City

This upcoming week we plan to go on the streets and give white roses + a card to the girls.

The starting of our team.  Missionaries: Terry & Karen, me, Cheryl & Ray

One of the houses on the property we are praying for.

PRAYER REQUESTS:

• My trip the 1st two weeks of November to Pachuca and Mexico City to train with 2 YWAM bases who work with human trafficking, street girls and safe houses.
• Direction if God wants me to go to Nicaragua to train with this ministry.  And if so, the finances to make the trip.
• Wisdom and discernment as to how to continue ministering to the girls without "standing out" to the pimps.
• Land purchase for the 1st safe home.  Open doors in the process if He wants us to have this land.