Catching up

Ok friends, I'm pretty sure most of you know some of the stuff that has been happening in my life lately, but I wanted to give an update and more information. Most of you know that someone stole a car and crashed it into my car in the early hours of the morning on August 18th. What many of you may not know is that the man ended up getting out of the car and attacking me while trying to take my phone away. It was not a brutal attack, but he did injure my right arm pretty badly. This has made it very difficult for me to work and has prevented me from doing a lot of tasks because I am right handed and cannot lift anything with that arm. There is definitely limited function and mobility. I believe that it will get better and that God can and will heal it, but for now it is causing a lot of problems.

I only had liability insurance on my car since it was an older car. Because the other car was stolen, the owner's insurance refuses to pay any compensation for my car. My insurance is obviously not going to compensate me for the loss either. Therefore, I have no means at this time of replacing my car at all. I am waiting for God to send a miracle and relying on my awesome friends and family to help with my transportation issues. This is really difficult for me at times and has been very stressful. I cannot even explain how grateful I am for all the love and help that people have given!

Just because I am injured and car-less does not mean that the ministry activities I'm involved in have slowed down or stopped! Actually, things in the ministry are picking up tremendously and I'm trying to keep up. I am currently still working at CLO (though I'm on a limited schedule due to my arm), but it is getting more difficult all the time to work and be in the ministry. We are hoping to get to the point where I can be only in the ministry and not work outside of it, but we're not there yet.

All of this leads to a lot of stress and a lot of praying and trusting God. I'm being very open and honest with you all right now. The finances are not there for me to buy a car. The finances are not there for me to travel with the ministry like I need to. Apostle Lisa and the ministry have been awesome with helping me in any way possible and I will trust God and travel whether I have money or not when possible, but some of the bigger trips are more difficult to work with.

I am leaving October 9th from Lawrence and we will be traveling all throughout Western Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona before going back into Mexico and ministering there. We will be, tentatively, arriving back in Lawrence around the 4th of November. We will be ministering all the way back as well. These are things I would love for you all to pray about. We need strength. I need to be completely healed so I can be more effective in the ministry - drumming and playing piano are things that are very difficult to do right now and I need to be able to do them without hindrances.

I never enjoy asking anyone for money, but I am asking you to please pray about whether you can help in any way with either the trip or the car or however God leads you. If you have any questions please feel free to call or text me. Thank you for your prayers, encouragement, and support!

Love,
Tami

Oh the sweetness....

You know, one day a few years ago I was having a conversation with Addi, my little niece, and we were talking about Jesus. She was talking about something she said to him and then what he said to her and I commented that I thought that was nice. Her reply was so precious...she looked at me and said, "I know. Jesus is just so sweet!"
I haven't thought about that in a while, but this past Friday night Apostle Lisa was preaching and she was talking about the sweetness of God. During her sermon and afterward we all began to feel the sweet presence of God!
This week has been a little tough, physically speaking, because we all have a lot to get done and we're working really hard to prepare for our conference next week, but in the midst of it we are having prayer in the mornings and evenings. I have been coming at 7:15 in the morning and joining with some other precious friends and we have been praying and seeking God's face and his heart for our ministry, for ourselves, and for the conference.
Anyone who knows me KNOWS I am not a morning person! But I have to say that the sweet presence of God that has been in those times of morning prayer is beyond priceless to me! It gets stronger each day. His sweet presence is so overwhelming and overpowering that it is hard to leave! Walking away from the sanctuary on these mornings has been difficult to do, but we must press on to get things done.
I don't know if you have ever experienced God in all of his sweetness, but I highly recommend it! I encourage you to pray and ask God to reveal that part of himself to you. Just be sure you're prepared for him to show up!
Blessings!