Dry land

I need prayer. I seem to be in a dry land. There is no water anywhere in sight. No help just me sitting in a desert. I can't seem to find the strength to get up. I am physically sick. Mentally drained. With no will to go onward. The only light I possibly can see is the glimpse of Mexico. But that is slowing sinking to but a small blink far off. I can not find anything to live for. Nothing!!

Thus far...

Hola again to all. Seeing it has been a while since I have last blogged I figured there is no better time than the present to fill you all in.
I just got back to Cancun after a few days visit to Chetumal. I was there visiting a friend. I must say it was more of a vacation than work. I got to catch up on some sleep and rest that I have been missing over the past year of craziness!! I went swimming, watched an authentic Mexican parade, and ate some amazing tacos!! It was really a great time and God has been showing me glimpses of my future. I am not sure of the immediate future at this point but I am not worried. As my God is not a God of confusion but peace (1 Cor 14:33). Tomorrow I will be heading to a village with Isai (the boyfriend) to do some evangelism. There is a team of pastors here from Minnesota that Isai is going to be working with for the next week and I wanted to be able to go with them once before I left so here is my opportunity!! I am really looking forward to it.
As my time here is drawing to a very near end I can not help but thank the Lord for this opportunity to be back. It really has been amazing. There is no doubt in my mind that one day I will be living here. And can not wait for that day.
Thank you all very much for being there for me. None of this would be possible without you. God Bless

Hola!

Well here I am sitting on my bed in one of the greatest cities in the world, well hottest cities, Cancun. I landed in said city at 1:30 am on Saturday. As my ride and I were leaving the airport I some some hitch hikers and jokingly I was like "Let's pick 'em up" (Dumb and Dumber style of course). And well that is exactly what we did. So here we are at 2 in the morning with 2 hitch hikers from Belgium. It was quite funny to watch Isai(my ride) and the male hitch hiker converse. Of course it is in English which happens to be neither of there first language. And of course me being me I let them try to figure it out, and not offer any English expertise. If you can call it that. Well long story short we drive them completely out of our way to a hotel where they said they had friends staying there. So we make our trip to the famed Orange house where I am staying. I did not get into bed until 3:30. And did not fall asleep until after 6!! I got out of bed around 9. So needless to say I am pretty tired. And the sun is way hot so that doesn't help the tiredness! Tonight I am going to church. Hopefully I won't have to preach but, really it is a possibility in Mexico. Tomorrow, Tina (one of the people I am staying with, and will be working with) and I may be heading to the beach!! Pray that I won't get to sunburned. Starting on Monday I think I am going to be working at the City of Joy. Which I am really looking forward to! Well that has been my life for the past day or so of being in Mexico, I will let you know when more exciting things arise!

In God's Grip

Choice

choose to look beyond.
forgiveness...
finding the good
love
choice
love...
as Christ loved

Mexico Home Mexico

God is calling me to Mexico. This is where my heart is. That is where I want to live. Odd yes, but the truth. Not odd in the sense that it is always hot there, and now I am currently living in the land of -20 degree weather. But heat is not the thing I most desire. It is the love of the Father. I found love in Cancun. A love that surpasses anything I have ever felt before. The kids of this country have torn my heart and make it new all at the same time. I am not sure I have shared this story with you all but if you have already heard it you may move on. We were in the village of X-Can in the Yutatan State of Mexico, and we and we had just finished a program for the community. And we I had about 50 kids hanging on and pulling on my cloths. And we played for many minutes well I can not remember the exact time all I know is that it passed to soon. This is the place God really showed me my heart for children. And it has only grown stronger since being in India. But all throughout India God was showing me that I was called to Mexico. One day I wish to start an orphanage there. But I do believe that is a distant dream. But as for right now, I am heading back to Cancun on the 18th of January. For 2 weeks I will be volunteering my time to the YWAM base there. It is something that I am really excited for. As anyone who I have talked to in the last couple of weeks can vouch for. I am not sure exactly what I am going to be doing yet. But I wish to work with the organization City Of Joy. An organization that helps out the community by caring for those who can not care for themselves. Young, old and in between. I would also like to find and work with an orphanage there. I am not sure if this is possible but I will be looking into it.
Thank you all for being in support of the work that God is providing me with. Please be praying that I will follow all that God has for me.

Walk in Love.

Home Snow Home

Home again... Home again.... So you know you arrive in Saskatchewan in November when you get off the plane and you freeze your butt off. Well not quite because because you ask your mother to bring you a jacket and some mitts. But I was very thankful for snow on the ground when I flew over Saskatoon. I have not seen really snow since January and was really missing it.
But anyways enough about snow. I am doing really good. Being home has been really good. I have been able to catch up to some of the sleep that I have not been able to get over the last 11 months of my YWAM adventure. I am still not to sure exactly what the next year of my life will look like. Let alone the next week. I really do have a strong passion to take a trip to Mexico within the next couple of months. Well that seems to be all that is coming to mind at the moment.

One very long day

The journey back from India. That is one I will never forget. It is hard to explain but lets just say that I had Sunday morning twice. I left India on Sunday at 1:30 am and got to Nashville at 3 pm on the same day, although the journey actually took over 2 days. Crazy I think so too. But thank the Lord the way our flights worked out we were able to sleep at the times that we needed to to work out jet lag. So I think I have offically beat it.
India was one the greatest things I have ever done in my life and I would not change it for anything. It was also one of the most challenging things. God has stretched me in so many ways. But all for good yes. The week of leading was one of those challanging moments. I don't think I ever shared this with you all but I was also in charge of all the team money. So here I was always the one you go for for money. That also means I had to make sure the books where in line and we weren't missing any. I actually didn't mind it but it did take up a long time.
Honestly I think I have a lot of stuff I need to process because the last 5 weeks of my life I have spent in one of most amazing and hardest countries in the world. But it was great and there are some many things that I never thought I would see, and learned things about myself that never knew was there. I feel like I am just blabbing so I will leave you with that.

Oh and I am heathly as a horse!!

India thus far

India has been amazing. And everyday I fall more in love with Jesus. There is so much hidden beauty in India that gets looked over. For example you can go up to anyone and just start talking to them. Also this is one of the most loving cultures that I have ever been in.
God has been speaking to me a lot about my future here in India and I am really excited about it. I know He has amazing things for me. And I am not going to compromise what He has for me. The great thing is is that everything he has been telling me about my future is what I want. So I am not worried about what is to come.
I guess I can get back to India now. We are having an amazing time here in Chennai. The last couple of days we have been doing a lot of friendship evangelism. Which is basically go out in the community and make friends in hope that you can tell them about the love of Jesus. Yesterday we invited some of the neighbourhood kids to come over and play cricket. It was so much fun. Never have I thought that cricket could be so much fun. Oh and it was so hot out yesterday that I got a sunburn. Yeah imagine that a sunburn in November. Something I thought would never happen. I guess that goes to show that you can never say never.
Something else God has been teaching me is that, I have to expect the unexpected. Nothing ever seems to happen the way I thought they would. I guess that is why I am not God. Thank you Jesus.
Peace and love to all!

To lead...

To lead or not to lead that is the question? And the answer for Megan Manson is to lead.
So for some background first.
Tonight my team is splitting up. Half of the team is heading to Coimbatore, it is another city an 8 hour train ride away. The other half (the half I am on) is staying here in Chennai. We are going to be teaching english to university students as a way to build a relationship with them and tell them of the love of Jesus. I am really excited about this as I am going to be coleading this team with another guy on the team. The School of Ministry Development really has a focas on leading and this is a chance for me to follow in the calling God has placed on my life. God has been showing me in many ways that I am going to be leading in some sort of way in my future. I can not share my excited in words. As I said in my last post, I am going to end up in Mexico sometime in my life and I would really love to lead a team there first before I live there. So if anyone is interested in doing missions in Mexico let me know. But please do not take this as me forgeting about India right now. My heart for this moment in time is completely here in India.
This was short but I hope it explains what is going on in my life to this point.
Love you all!

India Con't

Hello again!! Lets start with a little update. Since the last time I have wrote to you I have been sick, road in a car that comfortably seats 5 with 10 people, including one on my lap for total 3 hours, that is both ways so only an hour and a half at a time, and done about 15 programs. I don't know how else to express my joy for India. Nothing the same ever happens. Everyday is a new adventure. Like today, our driver got a little lost and we were late for church but we still got there and were able to do our program and the people really seemed to enjoy it. Oh I forgot to mention that it is rainy season here and it has been raining for like 3 days straight and there is no end in sight. So all the while being lost we are in a car with the limit of people of course, and it is raining in the car (we have to have the windows open becuase for some reason Indians don't like air conditioning). It has been really good though and I don't want it to sound like I am complaining becuase I am not. I really love it here and am having the time of my life. It is just the Lord stretching me in all my comforts. But I do have a bed to come home to everyday so that is a blessing from God.
Being in India, God has really shown me my heart for Mexico and all of Central America. He has been showing me that it won't be to long until I will return there and continue with the ministry that He started in me. Yesterday we went to an orphange, and it made me really excited becuase that is what I want to do one day is start an orphange in Mexico. God has also been showing me that I really do have a heart for children. I love kids and can not get enough of them. It is a good thing because there are kids everywhere. And a lot of them are searching for love, and are very easy to love. There are even 3 kids where we are staying. We are staying at YWAM Chennai the School of Evangelism base. There are some staff families that have children. And there are really cute. The oldest is 3 and she has a little brother who will be one on the 31st. And there is also about 9 months old.
What else has God been teaching me? Well that I can easily get frustrated and I need to work on that. Especially when it comes to communication. Not only with people on my team but with people back home. That is why I love the internet because it is so easy to communicate with people. I can talk to Melissa via skype and it costs nothing!!! Free!! Now who doesn't like the sounds of that. So if you could please be praying that I will work through my frustrations and be able to lay them down to the Lord. Because He has taken away it before but for some reason I keep picking it back up.

To be continued...

Chennai

So here I am sitting in one of the million internet cafes in Chennai wondering what you all out there want to know. Well to start of with we made it safely to Chennai on Friday morning. It is a lot different than Kolkata. It is not quite as populated. About 7 million less. There are a lot more cows here. And when I say cows I mean cows walking and living on the street!! What a sight to see. We went to the slum area yesterday and it was amazing. The people are so loving. One lady invited us into her one room house and made us tea and gave us crackers. This all just for some prayer. In the slum area we went to there are about 10 000 people living there. That is all in the size of maybe Birch Hills. There are people every where. But I love it. Today we went to church and 3 of us gave our testimonies and did some worship. It was cool becuase it was an English speaking church so no need for a translator! Not to sure what is going on for the up comming week but I will let you all know! Love ya

I LOVE INDIA!!

Okay so India is amazing! We have been here for just over a week and I am in love with the place. Our team of 19 split up into groups of about 4 or 5 and was doing different ministry. We are working with a school for street kids, in the train station with street kids, in a day care with street kids and a muslim ministry. I and 4 other girls were working in the day care. We go to the day care in the morning and help out. It really consist of helping the kids bathe and playing with them. They are some of the most amazing kids I have ever met in my life. Than in the afternoon we go to the street were these kids live and we play with them. It was really a shock to go to the street because it was a reality that these kids really don't have a house to go home to. They love us and can not let go! It is really amazing because even though these kids are dirty and most of them have lice, I don't care and sharing God's love with them is really my only priority! I am forever changed by them. This ministry is run by a lady named Loche. She loves these kids so much and you can really tell that they are her kids even if not by birth. I have a lot to learn from her if I ever want to work with kids long term.
So on Tuesday evening (which is early morning for all of you) we are leaving for Chennai. It will be a 30 train ride. And not to sure if we have air conditioning. But it is a sleeper bus so we will have "beds" to sleep in. It really is a testimony to God that we got tickets at all, becuase there is a lot of festivals going on in India right now and they usually do not sell tickets within 1 month of the travelling date! So here we are going to Chennai!!
Have I told you that I love India!! Well I do!
Peace and God Bless!

Ps. Please leave a comment. I really appreciate knowing thoughts!!

Welcome to India!!

Well today I write to you from an internet cafe in Kolkata, India. Things are going really good. It is our first day in India after 3 days of traveling! Let me tell you that I have had about 6 hours of sleep in the last 3 days. So tonight I am going to bed really early and try to get over jet lag.
India is completly opposite to every thing I have ever seen. There are people everywhere, children begging for money and sleeping in the street. It is definatly going to be a time of surrender to the Lord and have him lead this outreach. Because if it were up to me I would be taking all the kids home with me. Please be praying for me and the whole team as we are all very tired and feeling a little stressed out. I know that this is going to be an amazing time, but with that there are going to be many hurdles that I will need to jump over. Please be praying that I will be able to put my eyes on Jesus and no one else and from that intimacy that is where my ministry will flow.
I love you all very much and talk to you later. I will be keeping you updated.

My life thus far...

My life is really amazing if I think about it. I get to go all around the world under only one stipulation. And that is I get to tell people of the love of Jesus Christ and his saving power. And on top of that it really isn't that hard. It is just telling people about my best friend. Who doesn't like to talk about there best friend. There may be some rocky times, but who doesn't have those? In just 2 sleeps I am going to India. I would be lying if I said I wasn't scared but I know that my God is bigger than fear. 1 John 4:18 says "Perfect love casts out all fear" and I know no greater love than that of my heavenly Father! On top of the fear, winning out on my emotions, is excitement. Not so much for the incredibly long plane ride, but for that of stepping out of my comfort zone into the unknown. Peace and Grace to you all!

Stateside

Well I am sitting in a youth centre in Orange Beach, AB wondering on where I should start with the update. For the next 2 days I will be sleeping in a beach resort with two pools across the street from the gulf of Mexico!! And yes that means the beach. Things are going very very good. God is showing His faithfulness more and more everyday. Us actually having a place to say is a testimony of it. The day we were driving down here we didn't even know if we would have a place to stay, we were thinking we were going to be sleeping in the van! But now we are in resort with more than we could ever imagine!! Mississippi was amazing as well. We worked with a church in Starksville. It is a college town to the tee. It has the University of Mississippi right in town. We did our program on Sunday as well as did some chair upholstery. So if you ever need some chairs redone just call on us.
On, friday we are heading to another town way north of here to do some more ministry. I am not to sure of the exacts that we are doing but I know it will be just as amazing as it has been so far. And as of today it is one week before we leave for India!! I am very very excited for this adventure. God is reading to do some really amazing things there.
Peace and love!!

Greetings

My apologies once again. Way to long in between blogs. I am way to busy for anyones health. Hope everyone is doing alright. I am doing really really amazing. Life is so good down here. It has been hot and humid, pretty much the entire time I have been here. But finally this weekend we have been getting some rain, I was forgetting what it looked like it had been so long since I had seen it.
God is doing some really amazing things in my life. He has been teaching me the true meaning of grace lately. Something given freely to some one you doesn't deserve it. And that is what I have been given is life and life abundant! He continues to show me Love and the true meaning of it. I can not wait to be able to go to India and show people who have never heard of Jesus his love to them! Please keep me in your prayers as it is going to take a lot of it while we are there.
Well on September 21st we are leaving for stateside. I am heading to Mississippi and Alabama. We are going to be there for about 10 days. We are going to be working in different churches doing programs and really just serving where we can. Thank you all for being there for me. I will try to keep a more detailed update when in India!!
Love you all!!

Here I am again!

Hey Hey all you peeps out there in blogspot land! Again I take to long in between blogs. Sorry about that. But just to let everyone know I am on Facebook everyday so if you have Facebook and I don't have you as a friend add me!! And if you don't know what Facebook is don't worry about it. I will try to remember to blog more often.

So the outreach location is decided. And if you don't already know.... It is INDIA!! WOO WOO!! Can we say Megan is excited??? Yes she is. But of course much prayer is needed.

Well a couple of weeks ago we went to Louisiana. We were working in New Orleans gutting houses. We got to lead a couple of youth groups from around the States. It was really cool, God did some amazing things in these kids lives. Not only in the kids lives but every one on my team.Megan tearing down the wall of a house in New OrleansSome of my team in the house we gutted!This is Kathryn and I. She is one of the girls from Maryland that I really got along with!
This is a UHAUL truck that I found on the way home from Louisiana. Yes it does say Saskatchewan on it. Jesus Loves Me!!

Greetings from Tennessee

So it has been about 2 months since my last blog. So I figured that now would be a good time to do it all again. So I am back in Tennessee to do the second school that YWAM offers. That would be the School of Ministry Development. This school is really about who you are in the body of Christ and what you can bring to the table. I am so excited! It has only been a day and a half and God is already teaching me so much. This is going to be one of the greatest things that has ever happened in my life. Of course prayer is always welcome. Well that is all I can think of at this moment in time. See y'all later!!

Hello Hello

So it has been a while since I have last blogged! I just don't seem to find the time. We are very very busy! But it is so amazing. We just recently got back from Belize! It was incedible. I feel in love with the place and the people. It might sound nuts but I can see myself living there one day! Or maybe even in Mexico. Well I am really excited as tomorrow our school leader is flying in. He will be here for 5 days. And he has already been to China so he will have some amazing stories to tell from there. Also we have been to the beach here in Cancun and I did get burnt! I was a tomato for about 4 days. It was not cool. But with it being over 30 degrees here every day well I guess it is expected! Love you all!

P.S. I am super happy as Mexico uses Kilometres not this mile poo!! Just a little sidenote I thought you would enjoy!

HOT HOT HOT

Hello everyone! Just a little update. I have safely made it into Mexico. Everyone got their luggage and we had no troubles getting into the country (praise the Lord). It was over 30 degrees this morning around 9 am. So needless to say it will only get hotter. I have never sweat so much in my life. We already had an opportunity to minister to someone. As soon as we got out of the airport and we were waiting for our ride, the guys on our team pulled out their guitars and began worshiping with this Mexican guy. It was so amazing. So that is all for now I will try to keep in touch via blog as my email seems to be doing silly things. I love you all.