Update

I just wanted to update you all on how I am. I´m still in the hospital but they have ruled out all heart stuff. My heart is healthy, strong and pretty so no heartache or heat disease! I am currently on a 24 hour monitor for my heart beat which will end at 4pm Friday. So that means I'm staying here for another night...which actually made me cry hard. I'm sooo bored. But thankfully God has provided me with two friends that have come and hung out with me a bit. Today they did a CAT on my neck and spine to make sure I didn't have a pinched nerve causing the numbness. Which came back good. I had the heart sonogram and stress test (which was nice to do some exercise). Tomorrow morning I will have a scope put down my throat to check out my stomach to rule out all of those issues and I will also have a CAT on my head to check for nervous system things and because of my headaches. So I´m praying that I get out tomorrow. Thank you for all your prayers! -- Grace and peace be yours from God our Father, Sunshine Loveland

Urgent Prayers Needed

Well I haven’t written for awhile and I have been meaning to. Unfortunately this is not the type of post I’d like to write. Please be in prayer for me. I had to go to the doctor this morning because I continue to have chest pains, numbness in my left side of face, neck and arm, some shortness of breath and so on. So he had me come in immediately and wants to run a lot of tests on me to make sure there is nothing going on with my heart.

The problem, I am being admitted for the next night or two so that the tests can be done. The problem is I have at least a $1000 deductable and then the bills themselves. Here you’re supposed to pay as you go and I can’t because I don’t have very much to use. Therefore my doctor is vouching for me, which in and of itself is huge.

So for the prayer part, that they can find out what is going on with my body and that it’s not my heart. Also, for the financial means of it. I don’t have a clue how this is going to get paid and still meet my monthly needs here. So please pray for God’s provision in that as well. (Side note if you are interested in helping out with the expense cost of what the next few days will bring please contact me or you can send in a donation to CFCI. Instructions are under my picture to the right of this post on my webpage.) Thank you for your prayers and I’ll keep ya updated.

A High and Low Kind of Day

Today was an up and down day. I started off with a very beautiful display of how alive and perfectly timing God’s Word is in our daily life. I felt good about the day for the most part. I was a little nervous about the conversation we were going to have with our boss on how we will be restructuring the Formacion Cristiana program between the three of us. I was excited to teach my newly developed lesson on salvation as well.

We had the meeting this morning and it went alright. I was informed that I am now the leader of the Formacion Cristiana and the go to person to communicate with the rest of the team. I was shocked that they were placing me in such a position of trust and confidence. It was a very welcomed quiet complement.

Then we discuss the Bible studies and I will now only be teaching the 2nd and 3rd phase, which opens some time that I need for the rest of my work. We discussed how we will be doing individuals and this is where it gets a little tough for me. I see things differently in regards to individuals than my bosses, but I know they are my bosses and I expressed my concerns and desires and now I must let God take control. I need to be faithful to what God has called me to and be responsible for how I handle those responsibilities. I do pray that God will allow the doors to open up so that the individuals can become a bigger part of the girls’ process. Please be in prayer for me as I daily submit to my leadership and handle it in the best possible way that brings glory to God.

Then I had my lesson on Salvation with Ester (2nd phase)…I had too big of a goal in mind when I wrote the lesson and it so didn’t go well. Thankfully God’s Word does not return void. It wasn’t a bad lesson it just was way too advance for the level in which I was teaching. So back to work on editing lessons to create a better learning environment that meets the needs of all the girls at their levels of learning and their levels in their process.

Please keep me in your prayers as I now have the new responsibility of being the leader of the Formacion Cristiana team. Pray for wisdom in how I handle the day in and day out of the team. Pray for the continual process of writing the lessons and editing them. My boss would like all of them asap (yesterday would have been preferable) and we still have at least 30 lessons left to write. We want to do a good and solid job and meet the needs of our girls so pray for our creativity in how we teach them as well. Thank you so much! Please pray for me as I teach tomorrow, Thursday, on spiritual warfare to Debora (3rd phase) and the armor of God to Tamara (4th phase).

Finally!!!!

I have been in Costa Rica for two and a half years and I have yet been able to find someone who can cut my hair. I'm spoiled by having the best hair stylist (Ryan at Karma Salon in Springfiel, MO)and it's just been so hard to find someone to even come close. That is until today. If you're here in Costa Rica then you need to go to Esteban at Noon in San Pedro. He did a very good job and I just might have found my stylist here. He does have to pass the second haircut trial and then well know for sure.

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Prayers Wanted

This will be quick. Tomorrow, Wednesday 2 March, I will be teaching a lesson on angels, demons and satanic games. Please be in prayer for me as I teach this at 2:30pm tomorrow. Please pray for the words, the wisdom, the guidance, and the spanish. Pray that the girls will be attentive and really understand the dangers of these games. Also please pray for me personally. Today was a hard day, nothing really specific but just an accumliation of everything and also that my spanish has been really rough this week. So rough that one of my girls pointed out in the middle of our Bible study today. Thanks for your prayers.