He Works it all together for His perfect will

Alright, I got myself exactly 28 minutes to try to write something to yall before this little cafe we are sitting in closes!

The place that we were staying at the past few days did not have internet, so that was the reason for the lack:(  The past few days we have been staying with a pastor named Mark and his wife here in Hattieville.  It was such a blessing and we are were able to spend time with also his wife and 2 children!  Lets just say the little one, he has some dance moves like no one has ever seen!

The Somerville Boys

Pastor Floyd and Mark helping us with Count Me In

We went around visiting pastors some more, inviting them to the conference and was able to meet up with some people we did not know at all as well.  When we got to church Sunday night, we had like a dance RAVE for Jesus in that church.  It was seriously about 100 degrees, and we were dancing like there was no tomorrow, literally!  It was so refreshing, and we were so thankful to have that time to be refreshed with the Lord!  In the past couple days we also we able to scope out a place to have Count Me In Camp! We were so excited!!!!!  We visited a couple places that did not work out at all and we got to the point were I was starting to get a little worried.  We know that there are a TON of kids that would come and we were just needing a place to have it.  As we were meeting with one more pastor, the Lord just really encouraged us and there was just hope and peace that fell over our spirits.  So, as I have been trying my best to make the Lord my first thought in everything, to lean on Him and realize that I am nothing without Him, there is nothing good without Him....we just prayed and asked the Lord to just bless the steps we were taking and to guide us and prepare the way to where we were suppose to go.  Then it happened...we arrived at the grounds that was perfect!  It was a boarding school....where kids can sleep!  They had like 28 acres!!!! They had facilities to hold 200 people comfortably!!!! WHAT!  God you know exactly what is best, and what is better than even we can imagine.

Hatieville Church Service

Visiting the Nursing Home with the Lady who Kisses Jesus who lives under her bed

So today we met with some more pastors and also just drove up to some churches too.  We went to an Anglican church and was able to meet with someone that we have never met before and she invited us into her church to talk for like an hour.  The Lord is so good and as the Lord continues to do a work to prepare for Count Me In Camp and the Leadership Conference...the Lord also is doing such a work in us as well.  The Lord continues to answer Lauren and my prayer....Lord let us die to our flesh and make us one who is more like you, one who is living out of your will alone.  It is funny how when we have this prayer....how we can go with it and actually die to ourselves, or we can continue with our lives.  It has really been for us...there is no other option but to die to ourselves.  There is no where else for us to go, no where for us to run.  I feel as though the Lord is completely changing us both into new people, and for that I am so thankful.

Alright, well i just have a couple minutes to leave, but tomorrow, there will be more...and pictures as well!!!!

I really miss you all and thank you so much for your prayers!!!!!!!

Opened Doors

Wow, it is so crazy how we have only been here for like a week, but it feels like we have been here for weeks!  The past few days have been so fruitful!  As most of you know, we are having a Pastor/Leadership conference this March and the Awaking Church (our home church) will flying in to host.  The past couple days we have been meeting with pastors, trying to get our car fixed, experiencing the Lord's refinement and so much more! 

As we I am writing our car is gone once again trying to be fixed...our bumper finally being put on and hopefully our windows finishing the tinting process.  So as I mentioned a time before, our AC broke and we only have 2 windows that work! haha it is seriously like a hotbox:)  The incredible pastor Henry is helping us try to get parts from the states to fix our car.  His family is just so great! Him and his family has let us stay at his house for the past week, cooking us meals, letting us shower and giving us a bed to sleep in! 

Baizner Family

A couple days ago we met with Pastor Crawford, who is helping us with the conference and had such a great time being encouraged and talking through what the details of the conference is going to look like.  At this time we are trying to still secure a facility to have the conference.  Please pray that the Lord will open doors to exactly where we are supposed to host it and that He would continue to make the way obvious. 

Talking about Count Me In and the Leadership Conference

We have been meeting with Pastors, and yesterday I believe we met with about 10 or more pastors!  It was so crazy how every hour we had appointment, after appointment.  Almost everyone was really excited about the conference and was excited about everyone coming together with the desire to experience revival.  We also have been able to meet with many different denominations of pastors.  It is so great to see how God is bringing everyone together.  We had some really amazing meetings too where we had the opportunity to pray for pastors...one pastor gave us anointing oil to use as we prayed for healing! 

Meeting with Pastors!

We also were able to talk more about Count Me In and share the vision of having a country wide camp with with the youth!  We visited a youth group and was able to present to them details about the camp and get their feedback.  They were so excited, the youth, the parents as well as the youth pastor!  We are praying for a facility to open up for us to use that will hold all the people the Lord wants to bring.


God continues to transform my heart as well.  I feel like everyday the Lord says "Tati, are you ready to die to yourself, because this is what you pray for, and I am giving you opportunity to do it."  I feel like the Lord continues to humble me every single day.  It is in so many ways that I am having opportunity to trust the Lord, and look at what is right in front of me...not tomorrow, not next month, not in June...but right now.  If we do not have tomorrow, did I live this day????? I need to start living where my response will always be yes!

My little nephew!

Today we went to a Central Assembly of God and was able to really have a great time with the Lord worshiping.  It was really great to see how they are really going after the fullness of the Lord and I was so excited and thankful to leave so refreshed.  Tonight we are hoping to get over to Hattiville where we can go to church tonight haha we are praying our car is done being pimped out! (haha meaning our bumper is on).

Thank you so much for your prayers!!!!  Thank you for your love and thank you for support! I really miss yall a lot!

Made it to Belize!

It really was beautiful

I am SO sorry I have not been able to post sooner!  We thought it would be easier to do video blogs for the past couple days, and well then the video would not load and then you could not hear it well...anyway so that just did not end up working well.  But I hope that all yall were able to see on facebook that we arrived safe and sound here in Belize this past Sunday night.

one of the cities we went through

Mexico was truly an experience!  As we left the border on Friday we were very much going into a situation where we were not going to know anything.  We woke up at 7am to get ready and get all of our car stuff situated, but it turned out we had to wait until noon to actually be able to leave because our paperwork had still not been processed.  As we were pulling out, let me tell you, driving a 15 passenger van while towing a car is a very different feeling and a lot of pressure!  It took a couple hours to go through the process of crossing over.  We had to get our vehicles checked, get insurance, check ourselves through, get our cars sprayed, and so much more!  It was a time where we almost laughed the entire time because of the fact that we do not speak Spanish, we were almost completely unable to communicate with anyone.  For example there was this one guy who was saying to us "Teeps? Teeps?"  We responded by saying we were so sorry that we did not know what he was saying.  I guess it turns out he wanted a tip from us! haha  So all that to say we believe that our lack was really able to help us in this part of the trip.

This is what i looked at for 48 hours:)!

bridge over some river

It was crazy after we reached the border, completely going through without any problems (all three of the people in our caravan), we stopped to exchange some money and the guys we were with and a little lunch.  Then we a man who is part of the cartel (which for those of you who dont know...they are the bad people who want to rob you).  And he offered to take us through if we paid him.  So our fearless leader Marconni decided that we should do that for the next 60 miles of the journey, where it is the most dangerous.  And let me tell you, I know it is not like this all the time, but the trip was literally like cutting butter! The Lord truly heard the fighting prayers for our safety going through because it was not even scary at any point!!!!

huge statue with man trying to carry oranges?

As we got past that first 60 miles we were pretty in the clear.  Now the details from here are a little bit more difficult because basically I was the only one who could drive, and we did some crazy hours on that road.  We drove from 12 that afternoon straight, until 11pm that night.  We had stopped at a hotel, but instead of staying in the hotel, we totally saved our money and slept in our cars! haha  The funniest part was that there was a dance party going on, on the opposite end of the compound.  We tried to get the most sleep we could and then woke up 3 hours later at 2am to begin driving again.  So in all reality I really think it was 2 hours of sleep! WHAT!  Then we were on the road again where we would drive, and drive and drive! We made some stops here and there for the bathroom, or to fill up on gas but we then literally drove until 10:30pm....now for those of you who are want to know how long that is...it is pretty much driving for more than 20 hours!!!!!!  I no longer will ever thing a trip to the ATL is long!!!!!

Jesus looking out over Mexico

We then found a gas station, we slept again in our car for another 3 hours and then woke up to finish the rest of the journey.  And of course there are always your little fun adventures here and there but the two that stand out the most was when we pulled over on the side of the road for a minute and our vehicles literally sunk into the soft tar.  We went to move our cars and could not.  We finally were able to get our car out but because the bus was so heavy, it was not budging.  So we stood on the side of the road in Mexico trying to wave down trucks to stop and pull us out.  Now let me tell you...it took about 15 trucks till a little chicken truck finally stopped offering up their services.  We got out! Praise the Lord.  And then the only thing that was tricky the entire trip was one time the military people stopped us at a checkpoint and started talking to us asking for a flashlight (I guess they like those).  We said we did not have anything in the little we could get across to them, but as this man was talking to us...there was a guy in our back car trying to open the door to see if there was anything he wanted.  Now here is the punch line....the only little bag he could get to was a bag with make up...haha jokes on you as we pull away!!!!

bus wheel stuck in the earth!

We finally arrived in the city next to the border of Belize later that night and was able to get a hotel room and get a good night rest and a shower!  We woke up early the next day again (6am) and started the process of waiting at the border to cross over into Belize.  This was once again a all day process where we had to wait for our paperwork at many different checkpoints.  Upon our last stop of giving a man 1000 bucks for bringing our car into the country we were home free!!!  Thank you Lord for your protection and making the way!

they are obsessed with white bugs in Mexico (even though i know this one is dirty)

we literally could not take any more to the point of delusion!

Our Fearless Leaders!!!!!

Later that night we arrived at Pastor Henrys house (a pastor I have known for a long time here near Belize City) and he welcomed us in with so much love!  This is where we still have been staying as we are trying to get some details taken care of with our car, my tooth (have to go to the dentist today), etc.

But since being here it has been great!  We have been able to talk to a couple pastors and leaders about the conference in March as well as Count Me In and they were very receptive to both!  We are figuring out details that might work for Count Me In, as well as we had an opportunity to meet with the Pastor who is "covering us" for the conference.  We are really excited to start meeting with more people and just be used in whatever way the Lord says!

Oh we also got our windows tinted the other day and our bumper but back on the car:)

I am so thankful that the Lord is at work in what is happening but also my heart.  It is crazy to literally feel like sometimes you are having open heart surgery in the middle of walking through life.  But it is good, it is really good!

So I gots to go get in the shower right now so we can meet Marconni to see about getting our air conditioning fixed in the car.  Check this out...so our ac broke and there are only 2 windows that role down in the car!  Now for those of you who have been to Belize before, you understand but lets just say it is like sitting in a hot box on wheels.  Please pray the Lord supernaturally fixes the ac/or the windows and it is for free!!! haha

Love you all lots lots and miss you so much!!!!!!

At the Border!

So we made it to the border! Crazy!  Thank you so much everyone for your prayers and your love and support!  It is so crazy how you can commit to do something and know that is what the Lord said...but there is nothing like actually being in the position where it is happening. 

So thankful for Vincent and Ang in Grandbury, TX

 We will be heading into Mexico tomorrow!  We plan to get the process started at 7am tomorrow (Friday) and be on the road soon after.  Today we drove from Grandbury, TX to the border her in Los Indios, TX.  We left at 2 AM!!!! Now let me tell you, we were planning on going to bed last night at 7pm...but that did not happen.  We slept for maybe 2 hours and we were off! haha Brave Lauren took the first leg of the 10 hour drive and then I took the second.  But the important thing is we made it here safe and sound.

Driving to the Border after the sunrise 

The past couple days have been so great! We were able to spend time at Convergence (where the Awakening is a church plant from) and had the opportunity to visit their School of Supernatural Ministry. 

Amazing Convergence School Leaders

 The Lord blessed us so much during that time as well as having another opportunity to meet with Chris and Amber about details for Count Me In http://www.countmeinglobal.org/

Danielle and Amber from Convergence!

I am crying right now thinking about how blessed I am and how I am so grateful to have you all in my life praying for me and supporting me financially.  To be honest I have lived in a "poverty mentality" for so much of my life.  For some reason there is something in me that believes that there will not be enough, that God does not have enough resources or maybe I am last on His list of people to get to.  THIS IS SUCH A LIE!  It is funny how we know truth:

And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. (2 Corinthians 9:8)

Now put you together, provide you with everything you need to please him, Make us into what gives him most pleasure, by means of the sacrifice of Jesus, the Messiah. All glory to Jesus forever and always! Oh, yes, yes, yes. (Hebrews 13:21 Message)

....but at the end of the day it is hard to believe that this is really true for "me."  But it is! IT SO IS!! God loves to show us that it is all the time but sometimes it is just hard to see.  As we were driving here...yes this whole trip is walking by faith and choosing to trust that God will provide.  Even as we were on our way here God continued to provide, for all our needs in so many ways!  Our car has been taken care of, we have always had a roof over our heads, we have been fed meals all the time, we have been spiritually poured into!  Yall, GOD PROVIDES! His provision is for real! We get to trust Him, and He truly gives us everything we need! 

So something that I have been taught, is as we learn something, and God gives us a revelation (for example with this "poverty mentality," we have a chance to walk the truth out for our sealed healing.  For example today:

We found out that it is going to be better to sell the car we are driving in Belize instead of driving it back in June, with that I need $1000 to pay duty tax tomorrow!....Truth-God has/will provide!

We found out that we have entrance fees that we have to pay to enter the country of Mexico and Belize....Truth-God has/will provide!

We found out that our car was too rusted to be towed by the van we are taking tomorrow...Truth-God has/will provide!

Poor Car that needs to be towed

It is already done and we get to live in peace and freedom!

I also have learned that God allows us to make declarations with of His Word to help us through walking out our healing.  So I know that:

God is able to bless me abundantly, so that in all things at all times, I will have everything I need, I will abound in every good work. (Hebrews 13:21 Declaration)

Thank you Lord for everything you are teaching me!

So tomorrow at 7am we are starting the process to head to Mexico.  The drive through should take about 2 days, with 1 stop along the way.  Prayer Warriors, please be praying for safety and that the Lord would hide us in the shadow of His wings.  Please be praying for our health during this drive and for our vehicles.  Thank you so much!!!!! This is the last blog I will be able to do until we reach Belize.  Thank you so much for your prayers! I love you all so much!

Have we been gone for a month?

It truly feels as thought we have been gone for a month almost feel as though we are suppose to be heading back home, but in reality we have been gone 5 days.  Right now I am sitting here in the kitchen, listening to some good ol ihop prayer room....in McKinney, Texas.  We have been running around a lot...

Friday: Meet with some people from Convergence who are the main couple in charge at the school of Supernatural Ministry (we are going back tomorrow to hang out and getting a little prophecy from the students!)

After our meeting we went to Target to get a couple of things we thought about and were so tired!!!!!! We then sat outside the dressing room...haha...and ended up talking to this awesome woman for like an hour and got to meet all the Target staff!!! It is just so crazy when you dont have anywhere to be and nothing to do...what can happen.  What can happen when we just sit and experience what is truly happening in the world at that very moment. 

Then I dropped Lauren off at her cousins house and I went to meet some amazing people who I know from Grandbury. 

Lauren trying to walk up 3 flights of stares with her suitcase

And I was able to hear the whole engagement story of Elise and Robert! I love yall!!!

Robert, Elise, TJ and I after playing fishbowl!

Saturday: Lauren and I met up to meet with some of Jessica and Travis (our Pastors) friends from convergence who are the youth pastors there.  They are so great!!! And we got to talk to Chris and Amber about everything that is going on and also the potential of doing Count Me In-Belize!!!!

http://www.countmeinglobal.org/

So as we travel around, we will see what God has for the future!!!!!

Then that night I spent time with my favorite Logozzo family in the whole world!  I went out to super with them and then we played the game "Logos."  If any of you have ever wanted a true challenge...you should probably buy this game.  They use "Logos" to make a trivia game and well lets just say if you play me...you WILL WIN! haha

Sunday: We were able to go to Convergence Church, where we are a church plant from.  It was so great to see our roots, and where we come from!  It also was such a blessing to be around people who love Jessica and Travis so much.  We got to hear stories about them, hear from other people perspective what it was like when Travis and Jessica left to start a church in Athens, Ga.  Thank you Royce and Danielle for sharing all the stories!!!!

 We also got to see Jessica and Travis old house!

Jessica and Travis' old house in Texas

We then headed back to McKinney to spend time with the beautiful Wilson family again.  We got to have an amazing salmon supper and watched some American Idol.  AND...we got to skype with Jessica and Travis! 

Oh I almost forgot...God provided someone to jailbreak our phone for free to use in Belize!!!!

Today we are about to go run some more errands...haha so as of right now our little car only has two windows that work and no air conditioning.  Please pray for her!

Update on crossing into Mexico....We are planning on meeting Marconni on Wed night and working on our papers Thursday to cross over.  We are scheduled to leave Thursday or Friday.

Thank you so much for your prayers!

2 Days FULL of Blessings

Our journey began yesterday, which is so weird to believe because if we could just literally tell you all the crazy blessings and divine appointments from the Lord....you would think that we have been away for weeks!

As we started the trip yesterday, we sort of got a late start, but eventually we got on the road (being gone for 6 months....it is crazy to pack).  It is so interesting when we are about to go do something that we know is going to be so big and how the enemy tries to attack us in the little ways.  So get this, like four days before we are supposed to leave I know only start having ear pain, but I also get teeth pain, eye pain...and there was something else wrong with me (haha sorry I am pretty tired right now).  I mean really....really!?  Well God is bigger than all that stuff so eventually it starts to go away and as we are getting ready to pull out our GPS breaks.  So realizing what an earthly mentality that I live in, my first thought is "OH GREAT! What are we going to do? How are we going to get to all these places we need to go?"  But as God is teaching me, He is so faithful and will always provide, because He always has a plan.  So literally about a minute later our beautiful roommate tells us that we can bring hers with us!  Now if that is not God showing up at the perfect time.  So we now have a GPS, Rachel,  that we named in honor of the amazing girl who have it to us literally as she was leaving for school.

We got inside our little car Blueberry (whose windows dont roll down and has kind of started getting to the end of her life) and started rockin out to some good music.  Now you would think 13 hours is a long time to drive in the car for one day, and it is but for some reason it went by SO fast!  Lauren rode sidecar for a good portion of the trip which meant that she got to practice her drumming!  She is going to be so professional at the end of this trip.

So like three days ago, we had no idea where we were going to stay along the trip.  We felt that God was saying..."you are supposed to go and if you trust me, trust that I will provide."  With that, we did not know where we were going to sleep last night or tonight.  And a day before we left, the Lord introduced us to an awesome guy who came to visit our community.  He told us he knew some great people in Brownsborro, Texas that we could stay with, and sure enough we arrived at the Berry house.  Now let me just tell you how incredible these people are!  They had no idea who we were and as of 5pm yesterday, they thought we were Philip's guy friends! haha  The Lord is so great though, and just really provides all the time.  They waited up for us and we pulled in close to 11pm at night and they had a bed ready for us and were just so loving, caring and hospitable!  When we woke up the next morning d plans for us to go stay with thewe were able to spend time with Roger and hear all about their life!  We sat at the dining table and looked out over their beautiful land and just really were able to take in the beauty that the Lord has created.  Now Mr. Roger, he is quite the hunter because any animal (big game) that you can think of, they had their antlers.  We got such an awesome tour around and got to hear many stories.

As we left we were heading out to McKinney, TX where we were going to see one of the most incredible families ever!  When I used to go to Belize, I met the Wilson family and have been able to stay in touch with them over the years!  So God ha

m for today.  We were running around doing errands, we had such a great lunch where we talked forever! Then, we went to one of their children's (Ben) basketball game and just had a ball.  So just think of that movie "The Blind Side" well this is the family.  I just love them so much and I dont ever want to leave here!  They are so funny and caring and warm and giving and loving and well this list could be never ending.  And that brings us to now. 

We are getting ready to head to bed and as I look over everything I just wrote, my eyes are the size of little slits and probably most of what I just wrote does not make any sense (my apologies haha).  But another update on Marconni, he gave us a call and is planning on meeting up with us on Tuesday or Wednesday. 

Tomorrow we are headed to Convergence Church (the church we are a church plant out of) and have some great meetings set up.  I will try to write more tomorrow!

Prayer Requests: Thank you so much for yall who have been praying for us! We truly feel it and can already what God is doing around us, in us, and with our friendship.  If yall would continue praying for safety and for our little blue car, that she would continue to make it!  Also please be praying for rest continued eyes/ears to be focused on Him.

Love you!

 

New Fire

WOW! So we have now discovered the day (kind of) that we are leaving.  So the Lord is teaching me a lot about just going with the flow, and not really worrying about the details of the plan that lay ahead.  So this is what we know..... A great guy from Belize who I have known for a while is coming to the States and buying a bus.  He is going to to get in around 15th of this month.  Around that time, Lauren and I are going to start our journey to Texas in hopes to have some fun adventure along the way.  If anyone has some ideas we would love to know!  Then we will wait there for a couple days until we meet up with our caravan that is going to start the journey through Mexico.  The Lord is so good and so faithful! We plan to cross the border sometime around the 23rd of this month.

Also in the past week, Lauren and I have had the opportunity to see how the Lord is showing us more of His heart and more of what our purpose is!  I had the blessing to go to the One Thing Conference over New Years with IHOP.  The Lord was teaching me so much about the purpose that we have here on this earth.  We are only hear for a short time and SOON the King of Kings is coming back for His BRIDE (US) and we get to partner with Him and the book of Revelation is becoming so much more real to me!

I feel as though my Papa is giving me new eyes to see and new ears to hear.  I am learning about how the Lord is truly so jealous for us and how He desires constant communion with us.  I am learning that I have not done a very good job to fight for that and I really do not want to live my life anymore not fighting.  I get to be a warrior, and I desire to experience the FULLNESS of the Lords presence. 

During this next week, I am so excited to spend time in the Lords presence and meditate on His Word and Truth.  Thank you so much for your prayers!  I know that there will be difficult times that lay ahead and as you are continuing to pray, our desire is to be fully submitted to the Lord.  We want to move when He says move, go where He says go, stay when He says stay, speak when He says speak. 

I am still waiting to get some more letters back from the Mina project but as of right now....the Lord has provided about $1800.  Many people have asked what our goal is or how much we need to raise to survive while we are there.  The best response that I have for that is....I have absolutely no idea!  haha.  I know it is going to cost about $700 to just get through Mexico and back, Besides that, we are using what the Lord is providing for us and we are using that in the most faithful way we can while we are in Belize.  And if the Lord is saying to do some things we do not have financial provision for....we are coming expecting to see the Lord move and provide in crazy ways. 

A really great friend had a really good word she heard from the Lord about a week ago:

If we take ownership of something, we have to pay for it...

But if we give Him the authority and control, He takes the bill.

Knowing that we heard the Lord say go, and just have trust, have faith....We know the truth that He is the provider of all things, and He will provide all that we need.  For He provides and equips us for the things He calls us to.

I just loved that the Lord shared this, because it is so true and the Lord loves providing for His children.  So we are excited and thank you so, so, so much for all of yall who have deposited into us prayerfully and also financially.  Thank you SO MUCH!

I love yall a whole lot!