Yes, it has been a long time since Aerelle updated her blog. Some of this is my fault, her mom and editor. She started high school in August and took a trip to Haiti in October. Her first race since July was in November. With the spring, she is ready to rev things up again, and after watching the Winter Olympics and Paralympics, she is sufficiently inspired to get to to the hard work of training. She has some exciting events coming up--I'll let her tell you about those, but first, a couple of blogs she wrote in the fall that I didn't get around to editing. Here they are. . .
Many of you know that my dad has gone to Haiti on numerous occasions. This year dad asked me to join him. I have not been on the foreign mission field in over 5 years. I have been to Brazil (when I was 2 years old) and later to the Dominican Republic three times (between ages 6 ½ and 9 ½). Now I excitedly look forward to stepping into a new country. We plan to look at clean water wells and help with a youth camp. Also we are going to visit an orphanage. Our main goal is to do whatever the Haitian leadership asks us to. What I am looking forward to the most is the youth camp.
God laid on my heart to bring in soccer balls for the churches there. I told my Nana about this and she mentioned that there are soccer balls in the colors of wordless book. I loved that idea. When I was sharing that idea with some friends they said they would make some wordless books. Now we are taking ten soccer balls and twenty Wordless books. This is so cool because we can train the youth to use this tool with the books, and then they can use the ball.
The wordless book is a tool to tell others about salvation. As the name suggests the book has no words; it only has colors. This may seem odd, but this is part of what draws people, and illiterate people can share this story. The five colors have meanings and Bible verses that go with them:
Gold-- (Heaven) We all want to go to this place with no pain or tears.
Black--(Sin/Darkness) Because of the darkness in our hearts, we cannot enter Heaven.
Red--(Blood) Jesus gave his own life, and rose again for us so we can be free of darkness
White--(Clean/Light) Jesus' blood made us clean so we can go to Heaven and has set us free from darkness
Green--(Life) If you accept Jesus as your Savior and proclaim Him as Lord of your life, He makes you a new person with a new life. After you decide to follow Jesus, you need to grow and learn more about Him.
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