Ugandan Christmas 2014

Merry Merry Merry Christmas, twas the night before christmas and all through the house not a creature was steering not even the coach roaches and lizards.  We all were waiting to hear the bells a jingle lingering and the wind whistling as the sleigh approached, would Santa know that i moved and am no longer in the snow? will he know that my climate is 80 degrees and it feels like the summer solecist not the birth of our Lord Jesus, is this really the Christmas season? Is it alright to wear flip flops and drinking ice tea while doing my christmas shopping……. 

It is always fun to be in a another country during Christmas and to learn about what they do to celebrate. There have been wonderful children’s plays and productions at church and it always hits your heart strings when you see little ones acting out the birth of Jesus.  Since Watoto was founded here in Kampala there is no shortage of wonderful music and holiday productions. I went to an outdoor venue and heard a couple sing love songs and christmas songs. Coming home the other night I got to see some of the buildings decorated with christmas lights. And the hustle and bustle of shopping is no different than in America we all get crazy. Many people are very excited about there chicken, like we are excited about our turkey. There are turkey’s here but it would come to your house live and I am not a farm girl. This girl purchased a whole chicken ready to pop into the over. Most people will travel back to there village and celebrate with family. It is the thing to do. I actually was at the market the other day and the gentleman was like you need an african name I said oh i already have that, Mukisha (means blessing) and he was like what tribe are you from. I said the irish/german tribe and he was like so will you be traveling to your village for Christmas. 

I hope your holiday season is warm and bright and that the LOVE of our Savior is filled in your heart. 

I would love to reflect back to this year and say how blessed it has been. I have come full circle as i left Uganda Dec 3 and know i am back. After i returned in December from being over in Uganda for 6 months, i was at a Nine70 worship night and I heard for the 1st time Oceans by Hillsong United. I broke down and cried and worshiped and prayed through those words and continued to do so for many months. Each time i listened to that song  i really was convicted by the words TRUST w/ OUT BORDERS.  Can i really do that with God and what does that look like.  What does it look like to trust him so much that there is no boarder to what he can do w/ my life to bring others to know his love. Many times i had to really rely on him for what i was asking of him and he was really testing me as I went deeper in my walk w/ those words. God put my feet one in front of the other and it was not always a simple path, but he provided everything i needed in his timing and his plan. I am the type of person who is not patient and likes to do it her way and get it done. This year he has shown me it is in his timing not mine and also given me a boldness in my prayer life. Sometimes we are blown away by the things he does for us and a friend of mine has started to call them the of course moments. Of course he is going to provide and of course it is God. I am not sure how God works in your life but he has placed people in my life, my blessing this year have come by ways of meeting the people whom have come a long side of me and trained me or fed into me or let me intern with them. He has provided divine appointments of meeting Omar from Nafarious, Viorcia in Greece and of course the many woman and men in ministry or law enforcement who are battling human trafficking.  I use to think God isn’t moving in my life and actually when you start really looking at each blessing and how much he truly loves you it over whelms you and you realize how blessed life is.  I don't want to boast but i really want everyone to know this love that God gives. Does it always turn our perfect and the way you planned. NO.  But then if it did I would have made a huge mess of things and gotten things i really didn’t need. What i did get this year is my prayer life and I hold on to that with both hands. 

 God listened to a huge prayer i had this year , I kept praying for Rahab Uganda and i kept putting it as God help me to get these programs running please bless the work that needs to be done and how are we going to get the funding. When i came back there were over 24 girls attending a day, food was provided and they were learning hair dressing, candle making and basketry. God did provide and it was not through me, he brought in a team of volunteers who’s heart are so full of love. I had to humbly look at myself realize that he needed me to pray for it not do it he has called and equipped others. I learned that i can’t take it all on and to  pray for others to come. I didn’t know how he was going to do it, but know i see how he is working within so many of our lives to full fill his purpose. This team of volunteers is amazing and to sit down w/ them and hear there journey and watch how God has placed them in this is priceless. 

This month we graduated 13 girls from hair dressing class and know they have a skill that can generate an income.  The next step is to have them work in the salon to get the practice piece. They have had devotionals and bible study and some concealing as a means of restoring them and empowering them to make better choices. We will still continue to come a long side of them and pray with them as the road is still being traveled. 

our 2015 will be extremely busy and filled with many projects:

    1.    We are looking to open an agricultural center and partner with Makera University in the Agricultural economics department. Our goal is to use our 5 aches of land and have a dorm setting and produce a product and then package it and sell it in the local market. Thus employing many of the girls in all aspects of the business.

    2.    we are looking at reopening our 16 week business class and having 2 opportunities to employ the girls a warehouse selling bales of clothing/ sewing project: making pillows and cushions for resorts/hotels and restaurants.  This will tailor to the girls coming back from being trafficked abroad.

    3.    we need a BIGGER  center we are GROWING!!!!!

    4.    Awareness campaign. to go into schools/ orphanages and  church’s.

Please prayerfully consider being a financial supporter and giving 25.00 50.00 or 100 each month. If you are still in need of a tax write off please consider donating today at www.cten.or/sarahmiles or mail you check to Commission to Every Nation PO Box 291307 Kerrville TX 78029-1307

our current needs and prayers are 

16 week business start up capital per girl who wants to start her own business $500.00

6 month beauty/hair dressing classes 100.00 a month

employee a girl for 6 months while she is training in our salon after graduation 150.00 a month for salary and transportation.

Monthly sponsorships 

An intercessory team to cover us this year.

Pray for volunteers and staff as we grow and have the 2 big projects this year.

Prayer focus's and a trip to Jinja

This past 2 weeks has been filled with so many moments to Praise God about.  I had really been praying and seeking God on how can we really bring an impact to the girls so they can really get to know you and rely on you.  This week we have 13 girls graduating from hair dressing and so i new that once they are graduated they will have the means to go and find jobs and that the stress and this newness is here again. I know that they will have challenges and so i was like God you need to have them centered in you…. or they will fall back into prostitution.  Last Monday one of the girls said can we have a lunch time fellowship and they all went into one of our smallest rooms and worshiped and prayed. I was all up in a roar of excitement and went in w/ them and had the best fellowship. We only had about 6 of us, i came back on Wednesday with a friend of mine and she new my heart about wanting the girls to know Christ more. This time i think all but about 5 girls were in there worshiping and praising God. They have been doing this every day. And to watch someone pray and worship and really worship in there native language and give it all to the Lord is one of the most beautiful things to see. PRAISE GOD….. not only are they seeking you, but it was one of the girls who started it… Thank you Lord for the victory.  

Then as I was leaving the center I was on a boda boda and headed to my taxi when i get to this intersection and we are stuck in jam. But i look over and the absolute cutes kid in a wheel chair is parked on the side of the road w/ his friend and an officer is giving them a lecture and you can see he is being very stern with them. (actually probably giving them a few words on not to be in the middle of traffic begging as they are coming down hard on all beggars in the city). I just sat there and prayed over them and asked God to please take care of the situation. And all of a sudden the police officer looks up at me and gesters his hand and smiles like it’s al well. It seriously was one of those moments that was not of me, but the Lord moving because the way the officer looked at me was not him looking at me as Sarah. He has no clue i was even there praying over these boys, because the boys didn’t even look my way he directly did like confirming that all was well w/ them.

Then i get on my taxi and head towards home about 1/2 way 2 girls get on that i had met about a month or so ago and they are all getting in and we are all greeting each other and talking about how they will come visit me next week and the whole bus mind you is silent and just looking at me and how is this white lady friends with these two. I think they sometime get thrown back that i am not just a visitor but i live here. Anyway after we get to our stage (drop off point for taxis’) i get out and the girls and I get caught up on life and Fatimah says i was just downtown trying to interview for a job they said was available and then i get there and they said no they are not interviewing. So i said lets pray about it, and it was funny we all literally jumped and held hands all 3 of us like it was the excitement of our lives and i prayed right there in the middle of this busy taxi stage w/ people bumping us from all around. 

I tell you all of these stories because i want to you to know that I give all this glory to the LORD… I have found a boldness that i never had and as he prompts me I have been more faithful in doing it and not worrying about what is surrounding me. I have a friend who was going through something got a call on the phone we were in the middle of the supermarket in the female beauty isle and i turned around and said ok lets lift this up to God, I started praying w/ him.  

the Wheels on the bus go round and round

On a fun note with children. I had to travel to Jinja to renew my travel visa yes 3 months will be up on Jan 3rd and with the new year and holiday i was like lets get this thing done know. So we stopped by my friend Jean Kaye’s project and they had put in a play ground and I just had so much fun…. I was the bus driver and the little ones just enjoyed the imagination of this crazy lady.  The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round…… but since we are in Uganda the wheels on the bus go bump bump bump, bump bump bump….  like popcorn all over town. We had a blast or should i say Sarah needed some kid time. 

I also had a loss in our family this week my Aunt Bert passed away and she has gone home to see the Lord, please lift up her children 3 and grand children 4 all under the age of 6 as they work through this holiday season and the grief of loosing there loved one.

November Downtown

1 Thessalonians 2:8

    We loved you so much that we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well because you had become so dear to us. 

Yesterday at the center before i left I was standing amongst the girls as they were doing there hair dressing class. I was saying goodbye and I reached out my hand and either rubbed or touched one fo the girls on her shoulder. She started talking to Allen one of the staff members and i could tell by a few words she was talking about me. I thought she was commenting on why would i want to know about products and why we use this for that. Then Allen said she loves it when you touch her it makes her feel like your her mother and you love her.  Well I told her i absolutely do love her an gave her a huge big hug and told her anytime she needs one of those or if any of the girls need those i am available. I truly love them and pray for them like they are my own daughters. Then today i needed to stay home, get caught up on emails and blogging and rest and quite time. (bible study as well)….. So i picked up my bible study, that seems to be 1 or 2 days a week not daily. When i do pick it up it blows me away.  The scripture we worked on today was 1 Thessalonians 2:8 and I just sat here in God’s presence and realized how incredible it was today to pick up that bible study and how much i love those girls and said your timing GOD i am learning..God is really showing me it’s in his timing not mine. and here is why i say this. I have delayed more and more on doing this bible study and each time it is perfectly fit into my daily walk. Example of the story above. And God’s timing is something that has really been a lesson learned.

 I came ready to hit the ground running and that has not happened at all. Things are taking a bit longer. The sermon at church this week also hit point w/ me, it was about God’s timing and that he’s really not silent. It’s like a play when intermission happens we are asked to take a break so they can set up an scene behind the curtain. When we come back after refreshments or potty breaks we are ready for the 2nd half. So really he is not silent he is working behind the scenes and sometimes that means slowing down, eating a snack, and prepare for the whats to come. I know his blessings will be big because he is giving me this time to rest in him, and really trust in him. Pastor also pointed out how we like our lives instant we have google, instant coffee, and our computers can get things pulled up and done right now. And that’s just not how it works all the time. If you’ve ever been in Africa you’ll understand things don’t run like that, and I the most impatient perfectionist instant coffee girl am learning that God is not silent he is preparing me and allowing me to settle down and acclimate and find my rhythm here. I love this time in my life of learning about God’ s timing and seeing how much i have struggled and learned in leaps and bounds to really trust his timing…..I will wait upon the Lord. 

On a fun note, i have been driving in this crazy capital city….. and it is an adventure all itself and i typically pray very hard before i leave my house. I was downtown and parking and there are always a ton of people waiting to work and wanting to watch your car and help you park. So i had like 9 guys trying to help me parallel park (remember we drive on the opposite side of the road and sit on the opposite side of the car-have you even tried to parallel park from the passenger side)….. i did it but had to tune them out as they all were putting there helpful input into my maneuvering a land rover into the spot a mini cooper needed to fit. I could tune them out until i heard this guy say he Americanies turn turn turn. I have never heard that it was so cute and the way he said it w/ his Ugandan accent just busted me into tears as i continued to try to park. I got out and just said thank you guys your a blessing. Americinese. ( like chinese)

So Christmas is coming and a friend of mine is explaining how traditions nd what people do he tells me about these pampers that you give out. and i am like diapers? i was so confused and then he is trying to explain how you wrap them up and they are like boxes of food and goodies. I was laughing so hard and come to find out they are gift baskets, but they call them happers. It was so much fun.

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October Halloween

So many wonderful things that happened this week. I finally was able to find Amos and he actually came back from the village and we meet with a friend of mine Moses and we had coffee. Amos updated me with the last 10 months since i last saw him and his story just tore my heart apart. After leaving he lost his maze crops to drought. and then he got engaged in January and the day before Easter actually he had just dropped off food for her to take home with her and he left and came back to work a few more hours. She was waiting to cross the road it was about 930 pm and she was hit by a drunk driver, who nocked her into a small ditch and then proceeded to run over her to make sure she was dead so she didn’t sue him for hitting her. Since this time he has returned to the village and worked very hard at using the 1 ache of land that he has and is growing tomatoes, green peppers and carrots. He put in a pond to keep water available for when it is drought.  He said he is so happy and enjoying his time there he said his mom and dad just love him and he stays with them. he does work a few days a week on the motorcycle and delivers things to people. He has another bike and for most of you who contributed i continued to talk with him and ask him his goals and he said he wants to stay in the village. but he still wants to learn english and had only finished p4 which is really only grade school by our standards. Why i took my friend Moses with me is that he has a business that supplies cars and drivers to people who come to visit for safari or missionary teams or anyone who needs the services. Since i can recommend Amos’t temper and how he exhibited great service and honesty and work ethic, Moses is willing to hire him… In order to do that his english needs to be better and he needs to get an actual vehicle license. So what i offered to do and we worked out a plan, he will come for 1 week a month and I will pay for school. I will give him one round of lessons for driving a car and then this way he can still be in his village and he is training his cousin who can saty and do the work for the week. Our goal is to hire him and he can work a week here a week there when he is asked. He can also bring his motorcycle and work while he is going to school so he can pay for his food and what nots. He said he can stay with his auntie while he is here. I know that this will give him incredible opportunity and a future. 

This kid is like a son to me and when he told me of his fiancé he just cried and just cried. God has been with him this whole time and the challenges have been able to give him a new perspective on life, he likes the village life. He likes being a farmer. And i know were my tomatoes and carrots are coming from. Amos….

So I officially have a PO Box and many of you asked prior to me leaving if i can accept goodies and care packages. I can and would love them. I am not sure if people want to chip in and contribute things and money and connect w/ my mom and you send one together.

here are some of the items i am looking for 

- basil,kale and baby spinach seeds. 

 -bath salts the eucalyptus one at Walmart- dr teals

- the little scissors that they use when i get a pedicure and the larger embry board for my   heels. (if they have a kit that would be great)- the nail salon’s tend to share the equipment

dryer sheets downy

-zip lock baggies the snack kind and the quart with the zippers. 

and www.MacroLifeNaturals.com if you go to this website you can get macro greens. (we are looking to make this product here and i need 2 bottles of it so i can show the team)

I need a few supplies to make jewelry and can order it on line if anyone wants to help w/ that and shipping them over. I will be making these bracelets with the girls.

Prayer requests.

For health as i fight off sinus infections from dust and the elements, may my body get use to the pollution and climate

As i start to build a team for the awareness campaign that God will  either present the people already doing this and bring us all together or that he will bring specific people who need to be a part of this team. 

I continue to pray for favor as i try to purchase a car and that it will be a reliable vehicle, that the price will be manageable and that I can bless many by having the car. 

Pray for colleges and friends here in Uganda and for those who are seeing the effects around them of Human Trafficking. We pray for provisions and guidance as we move forward in helping the vulnerable groups of people being effected here.

Praise report: the center is moving a long w/ such amazing projects and opportunities for the girls to learn hair dressing and opened up a salon, an organization is teaching other girls to make baskets and also have had opportunities in candle making. we pray as we move forward with other projects and means of income generated ideas that it is something that the girls themselves are pursuing and coming up with. 

Amos (my driver from last year) has has a really bad year please lift him up to keep trusting God and his plan for his life.

October 2014 Settling IN.

week one highlights:

Arrived to find my apartment was occupied, but that my friend and the landlord had put me in one of the new apartments and that i was not fully finished. So i enjoyed a few days at guest houses and just took the weekend to catch up from jet lag and reflect on Greece.  Sunday at church i was a blubbering idiot and my pour friend Moses had no idea what was wrong w/ me. It was the 1st weekend of the month so they do worship and then we all take communion and then ask for those who need to prayer to come up and so the worship songs continue and it is just always a time of feeling the Holy Spirit and just being one with God. I was working through the emotions of seeing the brothels and all that effected my heart.  The worship songs were powerful and strong of emotion of God’s love and healing and it just fit perfectly with his light and love in the brothels and i know that he loves those girls. I also realized if it breaks my heart that much and i love those girls this much, just imagine what his heart and love is like. It’s beyond measure WOW Our God is an awesome God he reigns.(sing it sarah)….. then God slipped in my favorite song and I was just knowing my blue print for his plan is taking off. It is Ocean’s by Hill Song. My favorite part of the song is 

Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders

Let me walk upon the waters

Wherever you would call me

Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander

And my faith will be made stronger

In the presence of my Savior

It is something i prayed over when i first came back from Uganda and have been really working at trusting him without borders…..it’s hard but my faith has been stronger in his presence. 

So then Monday comes and I am able to stay at my house the plumbing is done, but then it is still a construction zone new counter tops and painting and finishing touch’s…. I know now what it is like to live in your home while your remodeling…. it’s crazy but i was able to assist in the details of the house and make sure things are up and running. I was a little stir crazy as i was held up for 3 days. So between jet lag and construction I stood.

I finally was able to get out of the house and then it was running around trying to get my phone fixed and to get connected. I can say that it was very very frustrating. I did however accomplish a lot yesterday and it was a truly blessed day… I ran to the Center and it was a beautiful reunion and so many hugs and kiss’s and catching up to do. So many amazing changes and God is just blessing the staff and the girls. I could not have been more excited for them. It is nice to see so many new faces at the center. I can’t wait to jump in and help.  

Sunday at church again i felt the Lord’s prompting and just wanted to share this testimony.  Pastor was speaking out miracles and how you can’t have a formula for them and how we usually only allow God into certain parts of our life and then at the end he started praying over the church and he said there is someone here that needs complete healing and if that is you stand up. I sat there and listened as he said more…… you fell and strained your hip area if this is you and you need prayer….. still sitting there listening….. and that it is effecting other parts of your body……OMG I stood up and claimed that prayer. I was sitting there in pain that morning i thought i had been doing well w/ my tailbone and hip and then went on a boda bode ride and it is not healed, but i will tell you this it is tuesday and i have been on boda’s and I feel amazing.  I have had no pain what so ever. I have had people lay hands on me and pray over me and w/ me. I didn’t expect this miracle but he has taken care of me. PRAISE HIM….

So some of the fun new things that make me go HUMMMMMM…… went to a gym yesterday to see if i could sign up for yoga classes and found out that it cost 1300.00 us dollars a year to be a member and then you pay for each class…….. that comes out to 108.00 a month. I about fell over. I was shocked. and to do a daily membership it is 18.00 a day plus the fee for class. OK no yoga for me there. praying that i find another place.

I was in line at the bank paying rent and met a girl from Ireland and we got to talking and we live close by each other and she has a friend that is leaving soon like maybe monday and will be selling his car. It’s a rav4 what i was going to purchase from another friend of mine but there car was to working. So this could be a blessing please pray that my Honda sells so i can purchase this car.  Also that Katie the girl from Ireland and I can hang out she is here 2 years.

Greece 2014

3 Island tour 43'rd birthday relaxation

1st day of Athens: 3am arrived at airport and a nice gentlemen helped me put all 4 huge duffle bags on a cart. I enjoyed the Athens airport for  a few hours as people woke up and Athens came alive. My friend Viorcia came to get me at 6am and then we took a 45 min drive into Athens. dropped off my bags and then i took a shower slept for 2 hours and then Viorcia took me around and we walked about 3 1/2 hours and did a loop around the Parthenon. On our our walk we had 2 encounter with men who said i look more greek than her. I believe it’s my hair. we had a wonderful meal of Greek salad.: cucumbers, tomato, feta, black olives salty ones, (not my mom’s 15 cans of black olives and saw she had another same run pack in the garage). and a gyros. MMMMMM i miss them. use to eat them in Germany.  Then the next day we went out to Ancient Corinth: It is about 1 1/2 hour drive from the city center were i am staying. This is who  Apostle Paul wrote to in 1st and 2nd Corinthians. he had been there and he walked to Athens we again drover it’s a long the coast and beautiful but he walked. Corinth was a small beach side town that is know about 10 min drive from the beach side. it’s incredible to see how much it’s changed since then.the ocean use to be at it’s edge and know it’s really far.  It sits below a castle and the castle is were people were going to the temple there and worshiping there Greek Gods.  and then we saw were the shops were that Paul talks about w/ the markets and it’s neat to be were the Bible stories are, it’s like you are walking the bible out and it makes the sermons i will listen to or reading scripture more intimate.  I understand know why people are so changed after coming back from Israel. its our lineage our history, just like if your irish and you go to Ireland your like that’s my family. But this is bigger. 

We also stopped and a sight that they dug out a canal for ships so it would cut out days off there trip it was started in 1882-1893 length is 6343 meters,width is 25 meters and depth is 8 meters. its incredible the greeks partnered with Hungary to get it done.  They also do budgie jumping and so we got to see 3 brave souls jump and enjoy the adventure of free falling. It was really high up and I  thought WoW y ou would have to push me and i would have screamed screamed screamed…. this also was the day of Sarah being introduced to Frappe’s.. The real ones not those of Starbucks. I am just going to be honest. Starbuck’s has no idea what they are doing. Frappe’s are incredible here and i am so hooked. that my host Viorcia promised to teach me so i can make them in Uganda. OH YEA!!!! 

I will be talking a lot about food and showing some very yummy pictures. this is a disclaimer be warned you will get hungry after my blogs. I told Viorcia yesterday if she saw eat pray love She has.  I advised that right nowI am in the Italy portion of the book. actually the last couple of days have been relaxing and trying to get caught up from jet lag of 1 over night flight w/ 5 hours sleep a 9 hour lay over in London and an over night flight to Athens w/ no sleep an got in at 3am and picked up at 6am. mind you i had left my home in fort collins at 10am had a full day of the botanical gardens and lunch w/ my cousin and her children prior to leaving. I arrived on a friday so the center is not open on the center is not open on the weekends. So the ministry part will start on Monday. 

So day 2 food was incredible we sat at a cafe looking out at the city of corinth and under the castle: we had a dish called Moussaka (my big fat greek wedding_ what she is eating in the scene were the girls make fun of her in elementary school- oh how those girls were missing out on an amazing dish) it is oven baked, layered eggplant, ground beef,and tomato with a thick topping of béchamel sauce. and another greek salad and tazikii can’t get enough of it.

then we drove back into Athens and walked a long the beach and I got to see olympic stadiums from the most recent games, a professional soccer pitch. (HUGE like the broncos stadium) then it was resting in the afternoon and dinner was a scoop of pistachio ice cream and a scoop of Ferrero ice cream. 

It is very typical for greeks to eat at 10pm. I agree it is very hot during the day and most people don’t go out between 2-5 it’s the resting times. I am all about it and enjoying these times to blog and rest. 

Eggplant lasagna.... AMAZING

Today i went to church with Viorcia at a church that the building was build i think she said 143 or 148 year ago. it sits across from the original gate into Athens. I had a head set on for the translation as services are in Greek and then after our service there is a Russian service and an arabic service. We then went to a hill right under the parthenon this is were Paul came and preached please read acts 17. I was standing right were he was and it’s an incredible sight to see he would have been very very high up on the hill and to have so many people hear him they said w/ the environment back then there are no cars or as many sounds so it would have been easy for people to hear him. I would have had to be at the front of the group. then we walked to a cafe were i had more greek food this time i tried the Dakos: it is wheat bread  soaked with water, olive oil and vinegar, topped with juicy tomato, feta cheese and oregano, green olives and capers. YUM and a greek salad. ( i like them)……I know i talk a lot about food the 1st couple of days and the architect and history. But as of Monday I have been able to actually start doing the ministry things i came here to take place in.  Monday was my 1st time in the brothels of Athens. I am not sure what i was expecting them to be, and the only reference i had was Amsterdam and Frankfurt's red light districts which i had seen over 10 years ago. If you were a person walking along the street you would have no idea they were there. It is doors to rooms and the only thing that sets them apart are the front light bulbs lit up. There are shops and restaurants and even people’s apartments above them.  We headed out into the area of town and we had 6 woman and one gentleman. 2 teams of 2 ladies who go into the brothel and then 2 of us outside w/the guy who are praying while the teams go in and speak with the girl and the madam. I was outside and praying for the teams since it was my 1st night. After the teams come out they tell us a little about what they encountered and what needs there are. Most of the girls are from Romania, Russia, This team has been doing this for a while so they have built relationships with girls and madams and while i have been with them the last 2 days 3 bibles have been given out and most of the girls are asking for more literature and tracks in there language. So we were praying while the team went in and they came out and were updating about  girl who had been there only 1 month and how she is paying off her fathers hospital bill. We look up and she is peaking out the window. I think the thing that hit me the hardest was 2 things i am outside and have the freedom to walk away. I am also so blessed that i am able to sit outside each one of these brothels and on one street there were 27, that I can pray for these girls. They may have no idea that i am there on the other side of the wall. But that i can pray and bring light into the darkness. This ministry is incredibly needed and making HUGE impacts this girl has been here a month and God places us in the right spot to go in and share with her that we are here and leave her with info about Jesus and also that the ministry is there if she ever wants to get out. They are the breath of fresh air. These girls feel there is no hope and to be here 1 month out can you imagine how scared and traumatized she is and to have someone come in and speak Romanian to her and love on her, so when i look up and see her peaking out and I get to walk away yes that effects me. My heart just broke more and more as we walked and i saw one after another after another.  But what is so Great about our God is, he is so big and loving and is there with all the girls. He is the one who stays through all of this. He will never leave us even if we don’t know him yet. I know God was along side of me prior to being a christian because there were dark days and poor choices and he saw me through even then. He loves us that much. 

Then today we went out at 1045 am. Yes 1045 am, they are open 24 hours a day. again learning and observing what these wonderful ladies do each week. I think that what hit me today was that there are so many men were out at this time.  Monday night was crowded and know wednesday morning crowded. there is a lot of activity on the men’s part and I had to remind myself that God loves them to and that it is important that we pray for our men leaders to start taking action as well and reaching out.   Nea Zoe keeps reminding me we are a seed planting ministry and what a difference they are making in the lives of these ladies and madams who feel no hope or way out. or who may not accept them right now, but as the team is consistent they will see that they are really there to help out or talk or as many times rescue a girl

walking were the Apostle Paul preached to Athens. Holding up the Parthanon like i tried to hold up the world globe in North Carolina

September 2014 God moments with a South Dakota Trucker and my car breaking down

So yesterday i had an GOD moment. I went to a friends home to catch up and also to get my hair cut. He lives on the way to Red feather. So i was 20 miles north of Fort Collins and I was driving back in and my car died I made it actually to the turn off there to go to the Poudre Canyon. I called my mechanic who i just gave a large sum of money to, to fix my transmission. It would take him about 1 1/2 hours to come get me so i did what any person would do. I started texting and calling people. I had texted my cousin and said i am stranded and she said that stinks, i replied yep but for some reason i broke down here and God has a plan…….. I thought oh yea he is giving me a few minutes to journal and i can reflect on all the stuff that is breaking down around me. I have 12 days until i leave and the devil is hot on my heals.  As i was journaling a gentleman walked by said “ You know us low landers get up in here hills and it all goes to hell…… I am going to be hitting church and putting a 20.00 in the offering plate.” I said “ what tell me what happened.”   He and 2 other semi’s had pulled in and parked while one of the semi’s was fulling up. So he told me his name is Denis and he was coming through Eaton and a belt in his gears or something broke and that God was looking out for him today because if that would have broke going over rabbit ears pass on his way to Steamboat it would have been really bad. He said they are going to get 800 pound cows and take them to Tyball South Dakota.  Then it was his turn to go fuel up and he headed off. I sat there in my car thinking how Angles were around this guy today… I was sitting there being prompted to go and pray over this guy. I thought no not me, then i said no Sarah get up and go pray over there travels. So i locked my doors and headed out to pray over Denis. I got to the rig and he was cleaning the window. I asked if i could pray over him and the 2 other trucks as they finish there journey, his face lit up and he said oh yes please. He took off his hat and I prayed for there journey………. He told me that i better tell this story because God was looking out for him today and he is was just praising God. i just think it is so cool that even in the middle of something going awry i am like ok God it’s your plan lets do this thing. 

August 2014 Poudre River Retreat

Poudre River Retreat

Each year I go on a small little retreat up to this spot on the Poudre River. It started many years ago actually it was the summer between Kiesha’s Sophmore and Jr year. Things were getting pretty tense between the two of us, she was in her teenage drama years and I was at my last thread of hope as a single mom who ran out of skills. I needed a break and a time to have a retreat with God. At the time money was tight so I decided to fast that day and go up to the river and spend some quiet time with God. I drove and drove until I found a spot that I could sit and be alone and pray. I found this incredible rock and a nice part of the river. I sat there and worshiped to God on my ipod and praised him for being in my life. That day I surrendered my daughter over to him.  I told him that I can’t be there for every moment in her life and I need her to survive high school and to protect her in all she does. It was so incredible how life changed for both of us after that she and I were back on track and she started to make better choices. So each year I have gone back to this spot and spent some time giving my life over to him. It is funny how each year in July I am pulled back to this spot. Even when I was in Uganda I found myself in July needing the space. 

So this year I changed it up a bit. I took a sharpie with me and on a rock I wrote out the prayers I had for my family and friends and my ministry. I through those rocks in the river knowing that God was going to carry them, he alone was the one in the storm that was going to take care of the prayer requests and needs. It is therapeutic to toss those rocks in and let go in the storm.  I praised and worshiped him and sang and danced on that rock like no one was watching me, until people in kayaks came around the corner thinking what is this woman doing….. OH well they got to see a woman seeking her Father and claiming his promises.  2 things came to mind while I was doing this: 1. I remember in a bible study hearing or reading that God has a stone w/ our names on it and when we get to heaven he will give them to us. 2. That as the water rushes over the rocks he will clean the marker off those rocks w/ the force of the river continually flowing over it. Sounds like his perfect love that he has for us each and every moment in the day and it is never ending it just keeps flowing. 

I also looked down and saw this beautiful rock two of them together 2 hearts.  When Kiesha was little she was into rocks I would have to clean out her pockets before I could wash anything she would have tons of them in her pockets. And one day we were up walking in a cove at horsetooth and she found a rock in the shape of a heart. She was so excited and gave it to me saying she loved me. She was like 6 years old. Ever since she and I have collected heart rocks were ever we go if we find one we take it and add it to our collection. We have them from all over the world. I also being single mom and traveling a lot for work would find them in the country or city I was in and bring them home to her. So this is  why I placed a rock on my home page of my website. It is because no matter where I go I know that I will find a heart rock and know that my daughter who was a big solid loving rock in my life is there with me, but so is God. These are the tidbits in life that show you the path and remind you he is incredible and he is there for you.  So today when I saw these two rocks together I knew he was there and kiesha was there. It gave me the peace that leaving my family and granddaughters is going to be tuff but God’s call on  your life is also the most rewarding thing you can do. He has all of it covered. 

Chicago 2014

Chicago…… the windy city! Actually when I left Ft C we were having 100 mile hour winds and so it made me giggle to think going from one windy city to the other…. Would my flight be shorter w/ all that wind… no it was right no time. Just like God he’s right on time. 

TIDBITS…….This is the word I have come away with this week. 

Here is how my Tid bit started… Kari, Michelle and I are walking around the conference(Christian Alliance For Orphans) along with a thousand other people and as we walk by this guy I tell Kari,  this guy looks so familiar and I am not sure why. I didn’t want to point at him so I said the gentleman in the blue plaid shirt.  We continued on our day and each of us went our separate ways to a breakout session. After the conference was done we headed out to the car and by this time it is late and we see that we have a flat tire. I start to take out the spare and get going on the exchange, mind you I have injured my tail bone and after sitting all day I am pretty sore. Kari had gone in to go get someone to help us. She said she asked the 2 guys out in the front smoking and neither one of them knew how (I feel that odd isn’t that in the DNA of a man… car stuff). So she said I asked God ok then who should I ask as she was not seeing anyone that she should ask and then she sees the guy I had said I knew him somehow. She went over to him and asked if he would help out. She said he really looked at her oddly(this will make since).  She had a conversation with him on her way out to the car and she called him sir and he said not to and so she asked what to call him and had a strange conversation with him.  So they show up to our car and meanwhile Michelle the nice person she is saw how much I was struggling w/ my pain and went and got a few guys so know we have 5 guys who are helping us… But as Kari showed up with Ohad I saw him and it is when he reached out to shake my hand and speak I remembered exactly who he was.  Since the other gentlemen were working on the car I asked him if I could walk back w/ him. (I didn’t want to say anything in front of the other guys) As we walked away, I said this is strange but I need to ask, he looked at me like with a yes face because he already knew what I was going ask him. I said you’re the gentleman from Nefarious and he said yes. I gave him a huge hug and said it is so neat to meet you. (Nefarious is a documentary that was filmed about human trafficking in many countries and what it looks like for so many.) He is in the documentary because he himself use to traffic woman from Russia to Israel. We then exchanged info and arranged to meet for coffee the next day.  Before he walked away I told him that I wasn’t sure why I had come to the conference you always wonder what it is you’ll learn or take away from them. I felt at that moment I was to have met him and God was giving me a divine appointment. I came back out and in the car told Kari and Michelle who he was. We all were so excited about this God moment and what it would bring the next day. We were excited about our flat tire and how God is on time.  A shout out to the gentleman that changed our tired what a blessing he is.

That night as I lay in bed I remembered the days leading up to the conference. I had watched Nefarious when I was in Uganda and had come home and ordered it and wanted to show it to friends but had not been home long enough to set a date to show it. I had been in New Bern NC were I met Viorcia from Moldova who also is a part of the documentary and there center is linked to helping in the film. So Tuesday night I stayed up late to re-watch the film because as I am working w/the Pearl ministry I felt I need to get more acquainted with the film. How timing is perfect because then on Thursday I met Ohad. In my alone time w/ God laying in the hotel room, I had started out by praying to him thank you for this divine appointment and this God connection and I was thanking him about me me me…. And then I became silent and I was like no Sarah this isn’t about you this is about Ohad. Tomorrow when you are talking w/ him listen to him, pray for him and hear his side of how he changed his life. Support him and those efforts he is taking to make a difference in this monster we call trafficking. There are not many on that side of the story that talk or change. 

So the next day I was like a little kid and so excited to hear his story. I went and met up w/ him and 3 other woman from the community near Willow Creek who are working in local trafficking joined us. I learned how his life got him to the point of trafficking and how he was on a huge binge from alcohol drugs and broken and found himself at a missionaries home who when he opened the gates, He said I have been waiting for you. It was for this missionary whom changed his life. ( short version of his testimony) He is still in Israel and is married and has one son and is taking care of 8 foster children. He was going to be going to talk to over 200 young college aged men on Saturday about Trafficking and pornography. He is doing what God called him to do from the past that prepared him. He and I related a lot on that level as neither one of us has had formal education, but life experience. We were able to connect and share about what we do with our organizations.  He gave me great advice and the realities of helping girls and that you may talk to 200 girls and 10% come for help but you really only have 1 who gets completely out and away from it. He said it’s not us but we still give because we know at some point that she may hear it again and it sinks in that time. He said we also know the brokenness we had and how we needed to get to the same point that we wanted God in our lives.

So the moral to my meeting Ohad, was not a divine appointment, but to me a TIDBIT…. God gave me another TIDBIT to the journey I am on and it is just the thing I needed to keep me moving forward.  I hope that I can be a blessing and that the friendship will continue to grow and that I can watch him grow in his ministry back home in Israel. It made it real for me from the other side of the monster. Not just from the point of the girls I work with but who’s trafficking them. It made me realize I need to be praying for them just as much as I pray for a girl to get out. God call’s us all to love everyone and it brought that home in my heart that I pray for all to come to know him. ALL

The other thing I would really like to talk about is adoption/foster care. I have so much more appreciation for those who adopt and foster and I learned how biblically we are called to take in the orphan. We were all orphans until God took us in. I thought WOW that’s pretty powerful. We all have fathers and mothers on earth, but really we are orphans and God is our father.  I went away from this conference with the mindset that even if I am not called to adopt or foster. I am called to help out and support those who do. It’s in the bible a lot of times to help the window and orphans. I think it may be something we want to listen to if it’s in the BIG BOOK that many times… 

Please also in light of the recent events in Nigeria can you please all pray for the 200 girls, there family and the men who took them. I am not sure if I am like many of you I am pretty angry and feel like my hands are tied in this situation, but to be honest we can choose to allow the devil to make us feel that way or we can do something that is more incredible than anything hit your knees and ask for prayer for everyone involved. I ask not just a nation, but all nations will come together against what plagues every part of this world. So many times I feel overwhelmed by the sadness in our world, but then after asking God to lead I feel so much better.  

April 2014 April showers bring May flowers

Downtown Raleigh NC.

Smilesinternational is partnering with Northern Colorado Christian Alliance for Orphans.  The Run for Orphans race is a 5k race on Saturday May 10th 2014 at 8am out at the The Ranch in Loveland. You can sign up at http://www.runfororphansrace.org/sign-up-today/.  Please indicate you are running on behalf of Smilesinternational/Rahab Uganda. If you can let me know you have registered by emailing me at smiles970@gmail.com. I want to be out there cheering you on at the race. Funds from signing up will go to the Orphan Alliance and cover all race costs, all pledges you collect for running will go to Smilesinternational to support my ministry in working in Uganda. Attached is a copy of the pledge sheet.

I will also have a table w/ information about the girls I am working with and the Center in Uganda, and local organizations that I will be partnering with. If you are unable to come out and run but would still like to donate please visit www.cten.org/sarahmiles to give today.

I was able to spend time in New Bern North Carolina again and welcome into our family granddaughter #2 Anatella. She is just the cutest thing ever. I also enjoyed hanging out w/ my 1st granddaughter Ryland, and boy did we enjoy getting into trouble and being twinsies. She is so much fun and just a cool kid to hang out with. While I was there I went to Raleigh NC and was able to go to a prayer breakfast before heading over to a blessing of liberties, we prayed w/ Senators in a courtyard/mall area w/ local agencies that are working to end Human Trafficking. It was such an incredible event and power time of worshiping and praying. I have been working with the Pearl ministry (who put on the event) and have an opportunity to train with them in a few areas before I head back to Uganda. One is a 3 day training that will give me skills to train other on how to work and provide the best outcome to girls who have been trafficked. It will give me the education I need to go back and train the staff at the Center and Home of Rahab Uganda as well as other organizations in Uganda who are doing the same thing we are.  It will give me a base to teach others and travel and share the best practices. The program is written by a woman Beth Grant who has been working in India for several years she and her husband are founders of Project Rescue and organization that U COUNT from Timberline works directly with.  The second opportunity that was presented is that I met a woman who was trafficked from Moldova and is now living in Greece,  She ministers to Nigerian girls who are in the brothels of Greece were prostitution is legal. The model that she uses is incredible and something that would fit w/ the demographic of girls I am working with.  She also has a program that is funded were in eastern European countries they are training girls from  the local community in Human trafficking awareness and allowing them to organically work in a 3 month window of time with a stipend  to go out and campaign in their local community the way they see best. It is an incredible way to educate people of the effects and to raise awareness.    The other opportunity that I have is an internship with a local nonprofit, Help International. I will be able to work for them until I need to return to Uganda. I look forward to the community awareness and partnerships I get to build being there volunteer coordinator. Not only that Jean Kaye the founder is my mentor and also wants to partner with me in Uganda. I am so blessed to have these incredible women in my life who are training me and preparing me for what the Lord has called me to do.

In order to continue moving forward and gaining the education that I need I will need additional funding. If everyone on my mailing list gave me a suggested donation of 25.00 I would be able to go and do all the training. Please also consider getting involved. I am looking for people who will help out with an event that will take place in August and also someone who can work on my website and just help me finalize it. 

March 2014 Updates

Updates Updates Updates

No I have not fallen off the face of the earth. I did however fall madly in love with my granddaughter. I have spent the last few weeks in New Bern North Carolina.  God is so amazing and allowed me to hang out with my daughter and her family and just soak up being a grandma. Who knew how special that bond between a grandchild and grandma is, we were able to play and get into good trouble. We snuggled and laughed and played like I was a child again. I think grandchildren give you back your youth, not steel it and make you feel old. If you all know Kiesha and her silliness then you can just imagine the fun her daughter Ryland is. I laughed so much and smiled more than I have in a long time. My soul and liver are doing very well. (Known fact when you laugh you are exercising your liver)It was so hard to leave them, but I know that in a few short weeks I will be able to spend more time with them and welcome into the world grandbaby #2 Anatella Stallings.

The Pearl Ministry- partnerships                      

While I was in New Bern I visited a friend of a friend and was introduced to an amazing ministry. Right now they are called the Pearl Ministry, but are in the process of changing the name because they are expanding and God is taking them to all nations to work with girls who have been sexually exploited and trafficked.  www.pearlministry.com  It is wonderful they have been making bracelets that have a pearl on them.  By purchasing a bracelet you get one and then another one is made and given to a girl who has been trafficked. eTh  With your bracelet you get a card that explains to her why the pearl and in this card you get to write a word of encouragement to this girl that they are giving the bracelet to. They have been using them as a means of ministry and going into the strip clubs of Myrtle Beach, they are also working with an ex prostitute in Athens Greece who is using them as she goes into clubs and strip clubs and areas were girls are, they are also on their way to the Philippians parents of a girl who is on the world race took some with them as they meet up w/ there daughter and will be going into clubs passing them out to the girls there.

I am so excited about this partnership for 2 reasons. I have been given a few bracelets to sell and the proceeds made go to my funding and then when I return to Uganda I can give them to girls either ones at the center or as a means to witness to other girls in Uganda. I am also hoping that we can partner as a business in Uganda and allow Rahab Uganda and the girls I work with to make the bracelets. This will provide an income for the girls, how exciting is this.   God took me to New Bern NC. He is amazing and works even when we are on vacation. Praise him.  I have 11 bracelets left so please connect with me. Suggested donation is 35.00 and all funding goes to my sending agency so it is tax deductible.

Here is what the Card says inside

 Why the Pearl

There is no place too far away and nothing too dark for God's love. You are cherished and precious in His sight. Like a pearl, you are a precious gem. A pearl, which is the only precious gem that is formed by a living organism, is found at the bottom of the ocean. Because a piece of grit has placed itself into an oyster shell, a pearl is formed.

Imagine the oyster shell as the Hands of God. Through prayer, you can place the hurt and dirt in your life into God's loving hands. Just as the oyster shell covers the "grit" and turns it into a pearl....Jesus can also turn your pain into a pearl. When we choose to place the hurt and dirt of our lives in the loving hands of Jesus, He promises to heal our physical and emotional pain because of the completed work of the Cross. His blood covers all our sin. We are made into a new creation the.....Pearl of Great Price.

Each time you wear this bracelet, be reminded of Christ’s redemptive love and your new identity in him.

Amos update 

 We are still working at raising funds to support getting him another bike. He had returned to his village to attend to his farming. He planted maze, a drought came and he lost the whole crop. I just ask that you lift up this young man who was working so hard to make a better future for himself. Pray that he will be blessed and that something will open up and that he can keep the strength to keep going while he regroups.  I know that when I get back or sooner I will be able to supply him a new bike so he can get back on his feet.  We currently have 300.00 saved.  I want to tell you how strongly I feel about helping this young man. He never once asked me for anything he has only told me his story about the bike he never asked me to bail him out. He is one young man who was working very hard and doing the right things and preparing for his future he is very hard working and never works on Sundays he believed in giving that day to God. I know that this is hard for him he was so proud of himself and things were going so well. We can never explain why curtain things happen to people, but what I can say is we can make a small difference in his life.

News from Uganda:

The 16 week business class had graduated 10 girls and out of those we 2 girls who started their own shops and are up and running. Doreen is selling towels and Natasha has her own little non perishable goods store. 2 other girls are in the process of finalizing getting their products together and will be starting their shops any day. One of our ladies has a baby during the process but should be opening up as soon as she can. 2 other girls have opted not to start businesses. The others I will find out there progress as I learn. I believe that they already had small businesses and were waiting for the micro financing to help them grow. I am so proud of them.

At the drop in Center we had 12 or more girls graduate from the vocational skills class of hair dressing. This is exciting because many of them can work from their homes and know have a skill to use to make money. All the girls who were in school at the home have moved on to the next level of school we were able to get a few more girls into school this semester so I believe we are at about 21 girls in school. One girl did not go on, but will be going into a vocational school program. We are so pleased for all the girls. I am not one to typically use numbers but that is 43 girls lives who have been impacted at some level to show them they are daughters of the King and who have received a bit of Love from this amazing group of people who see that by giving a little it makes a difference in the life of someone

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Prayer requests

I will be traveling to New Bern again and we will have an opportunity on April 11,12th to have a prayer breakfast with senators and congressman and then later that morning pray in front of the Capital building in Raighley NC. May we be able to praise and worship our Lord that day and that hearts and doors are opened wide on awareness. I pray for radical things to happen with the presence of the Holy Spirit, that we see Gods hands in every part of what we are doing.

I pray for my daughter and the delivery of Anatella. I pray for her husband and Ryland my granddaughter who is 13 months old, it will be big changes.

I pray for my team in Uganda and one of the staff members Sarah (not me) is out for maternity leave she had a healthy little girl.  I pray for the girls who we work with and for those we are not yet connected to, may we be a beacon of light so bright that it’s blinding love that we give. That God is our main focus and that we give LOVE like our father has asked us to give. With him all things are possible so let’s make it possible for those who are broken. 

Financial updates

Please remember that in order for me to return to Uganda I need financial partners who would be willing to come along side of me monthly. I am getting close to my departure date of September 30th but sooner if I get fully funded. I am still in need of 1600.00 in monthly support.  Prayerfully consider your financial partnership because with your monthly donations I can effectively change the lives of girls in Uganda.  www.cten.org/sarahmiles

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January 2014

Many new UPDATES and my way forward for 2014:

I am home for a few months going to be visiting my daughter and the grand babies and will be headed back to Uganda in June. I will continue to work with Rahab Uganda. But in the meanwhile please see below how God has been moving in my life since i got home and how you can be involved.  

Before I left Uganda i was worried about coming home as he had been blessing me with many opportunities and I was in a spot in my life that every thing was clicking and coming together i was pretty torn about coming home and taking some time away,...... but little did I know..... please continue to see how God's timing is beyond perfect.

God’s timing is truly amazing. In short I want to share something that is dear to me. In November 2012 a friend of mine’s daughter was trafficked and it really hit me hard. I had been volunteering with U COUNT(an organization at church that works to give awareness and help those who have been trafficked) and seeing how this monster is destroying so many people in our world. I could not fathom that it would affect me so close to my heart. I didn't ever think it doesn't happen here in Ft Collins or it couldn't happen to anyone close to me. In past experience in my life from losing my brother to suicide I know things are always very close to home. And your world can change in a second.  What through me was the way it personally affected me.  I had to look way down into my past and how I had lived my life prior to being a Christian. You see I slept with men thinking they would love me; I hung out w/ the wrong crowds and partied. I could be were my friends daughter is. But more than anything what hit me was I had low self esteem and had been seeking my solutions in the wrong things.(BC-before Christ). So my actions back then and the guilt i had in me was rearing up. My past was being presented to me again. The only way i can describe it is i felt such a connection to my friends daughter, that i to use to be in a place of vulnerability like so many of these girls who are being solicited. I wanted a man to love me and I listened to them feed me lines over and over again.  I was able to walk a long this journey with her parents and was involved with the FBI and police and trying to find her. It was so hard to leave to Uganda and ask God to take over while I was gone. He did he provided some incredible resources and people in the lives of her parents. (Perfect timing)Not only that I have seen the power of so many people praying for her. During my stay in Uganda I got an opportunity to email my friends daughter and reach out to her. She was able to look at my website and read my blogs and see what I was doing with girls in Uganda who have been sexually exploited and trafficked. It opened up a time of emails and communication. The day after I got home I emailed her and said ok I am home give me your number. I was able to call her and talk and it was a beautiful moment in my life. I didn't try to steer the conversation either way all I wanted to do was be me and love her where she is at. I learned in Uganda that the girls that have been exploited just want someone to love them where they are at with no judgment. I am good at that. I love the people Jesus loves and he loves everyone. Well about 2 weeks ago I received a call that she wanted out and to be honest it is a great blessing she is out and in a safe place to heal. (it was not easy the Devil was fighting us hard because he knew that we reclaimed a child of God and that his love is so much stronger and she was coming home) I could not have asked God for a more perfect time for me to be home. He really times things and it makes my faith grow deeper and deeper as I see blessing unfold each day for so many around me. I use to be a very negative person and stressed out. I still get there but not as much as I use to. I know he provides everything and he makes way for those who follow him and know him. I see things so differently than I use to.  God’s journey in my life has transformed me literally from the inside out. He had taken care of my organs in 2012 and in 2013 he gave me such a knowing of him. I can’t wait to see what 2014 has in store for me.

I read in Beth Moore she talks about her believing in God and he said not to believe in me but to believe him and it was powerful for me. I have really been thinking about that, I believed in him, but do I believe what he promises me. It is my time of faith to BELIEVE HIM.

Ways to get involved:

Monthly-One time giving

Please continue to pray and consider partnering with me financially. I am currently looking for monthly support. I still need to raise 1700.00 in monthly sponsorship.  Please go to www.cten.org/sarahmiles to make your monthly or one time giving.

Business Opportunities/ Run for Orphans 5 k

I also have another opportunity if your business would like to donate you can do so by doing a Donor sponsorship through The Run for Orphan 5k they have donor sponsorship: In Uganda 2.3 million children are orphans, this is a very large vulnerable group of children who tend to be trafficked and exploited:  Please consider partnering with me. All proceeds raised will go to sending me back to Uganda to work with Rahab Uganda.

Gold 1000.00 :will allow your logo on the t-shirt and website if received by April 1st, premium table at the race to advertise your business, banner if provided by you, lawn signs, sponsor announcement at race. And 4 entries to the race

Silver at 500.00: will allow your logo on the t-shirt and website if received by April 1st, premium table at the race to advertise your business, banner if provided by you, sponsor announcement at race. And 2 entries to the race

Bronze at 250.00 :on race website if by April 1st, Table to advertise, and sponsorship announcement.

Awareness:

1. Consider inviting your friends and hosting me for a night to share what I am doing in Ministry. It can be an African Tea and biscuits party and they only last about an hour long. I will supply the African tea/Chai.

2. I am looking to see if anyone would donate 250.00 so I could host a table at Run for Orphans 5K and bring awareness to my ministry.

3. Another opportunity I have is to go to Chicago and go to the Orphan Summit in May. I will be raising money for my plane ticket

4. I also will be trying to go to Dearborn MI to work with a Muslim community. I currently have 2 girls in our business class’s that are Muslim and so the more education I can obtain the more effective I can be.  As you know trafficking effects all people it does not discriminate.

Prayer Team

Please email me and let me know if I can add you to my prayer team. Prayers are powerful as a community or individually he answers are pure hearts.

Volunteer Opportunities

I need help with designing a new prayer card, newsletter template and help updating my website and need graphics for a t-shirt idea.

I also need business minded people who can help me as Rahab Uganda moves forward to starting a business to employ some of the girls we have returning from trafficking.

AMOS’S UPDATE

Amos’s funding is at about 260.00 so we are coming along great. I hope that we can get him funded in the next month so we are still in need of 340.00. If you are able to give please let me know. Each week that goes by is harder and harder for him financially. And thank you to those who have donated. Every amount is a blessing.

Blessings to all….