I want to invite everyone to the
SECOND ANNUAL ICHOOSEYOU FUNDRAISER
SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 31
6:30 pm
CYPRESS CREEK CHURCH
WIMBERLEY, TEXAS
It is going to be a fun night with
Live Music
A Djembe Band...COME DRUM FOR FUN...from Ausin
Silent Auction
Beautiful hand-made items for sale by that IChooseYou Moms
IChooseYou T-Shirts
Stories and updates from last years trip
Amazing food...catered by MY MOTHER'S DAUGHTER CATERING and TEXAS ROADHOUSE
Tickets are only $15.00 per person
Tickets available at Cypress Creek Church...512-847-1222
DON'T MISS THE FUN....YOU WON'T BE SORRY YOU CAME!!!
ALL MONEY RAISED GO TOWARDS, SCHOOL SHOES, BACKPACKS,MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND WHAREVER ELSE GOD HAS PLANNED!!!
Hope o see you there!!!
Becky
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
I missed someone!!!
One more lady that will be joining us is Lauri Bunch!!! This will be Lauri's 2nd trip and she brings so much with her!!! She has taught at a private Christian school in Austin for several years and is an amazing teacher!!! The children love her and are already excited to have her back with us this year! I'm sorry for the mistake but that is what happens when you can't sleep and you blog at 3:00 in the morning!!!
Good night all :)
Good night all :)
HOW TIME FLYS!!!
It's hard to believ that we are gearing up to go back to Uganda!! Plans are being made and the team is set and we are so excited to see just what God is going to do this summer. We have 16 people going this year...some will be stayingfoes 2 weeks, some for a month and some for 6 weeks!!! we are hoping to have a medical team ready for us to put on two 2 days clinics in the Village of Namatala...they say that we will have THOUSANDS come through the clinic...I love seeing how God works these things out Nd puts a team together to help these wonderful people...people that have become our family. I'm not real sure what this will look like, I just know that the doctors and nurses said for us to be ready foe anything!!
We will of course spen time with our IChooseYou families and the children...I can't wait to see them all...they grow so much in a year. Right ow we have 46 children in school and hopefully will add 4 more this summer.
Our IChooseYou moms are still very busy sewing and making jewelry and doing so well with that work. They are so dedicated and work so hard. We are so proud of them. Darby is hoping to spend some real quality time with them this year taking them away to a new location and away from distractions so that they can concentrate better and so that they can feel a little special...because...these ladies ARE SO SPECIAL.
Brandi will be taking "Pink"....our ladies Bible study...to them again this year. This is such a blessing to the ladies...something that they look so forward to!
It is such a blessing to have 7 people return with us again this year!!! Darby Burleson, Brandi Silva and Deanna Duke will be returning for there 3rd year!!! Haley Littmannwill be returning for her 4th year, Callie Eacret returning for her 2nd year with hopes and dreams of returning for several months next January. Then there is Ted Ball returning for his 5th year...at the age of almost 82, the children probably wouldn't let us in the country without him...what a true blessing he is to the team and especially to the our IChooseYou family! Then this will be my 7th trip over to my "second" home...how blessed I am!!!
We have some amazing new faces on our team this year...Mark Muhlstien...yea another man!!! He will bring so much knowledge and so much love to the team,,,yea Mark!!! Also Kristyn Kicey, a graduating senior at Texas State will be ging foe the first time and will be staying foe 2 months....how exciting!! Next is Jennifer Thames....an amazing person, wife and super mom!! She will be graduating fromTexas State in May with a degree in accounting....oh is she needed....what a blessing she is!!! Then we have the life and the energy of the team...TEXAS STATE STUDENTS...Madison Nye...dance and theater major....will the kids love that!!! David Booth...no words to describe him....singer/songwriter...the Pied Piper with the kids..then we have Kady Gill and Scott Perez joining us with their energy, love and enthusiasm!!!! Also to friends fromKaty Texas will bw joining us....Haley and Scotty Jones....brother and sister that are amazing!!! 2nd year back or oth of them...Haley was with us some is last year....can't wait..It's going to be an amazing trip.
We would all love your prayers from May 21 - July 11. We know that we need your prayers and we as one them....this is not our team, our trip, or our IChooseYou ministry....it all belongs to our Lord...how blessed we are to be ale to be a part of this oth Him!!!
Now...would you like to join us and be a part of the big picture???? You are needed!!!
We are having our 2nd IChooseYou dinner and fundraiser on Saturday, March 31...6:30 at Cypress Creek Curch in Wimberley...tickets are just $15.00 each. What do you get for that $15.00 you ask...wonderful dinner catered by My Mother's Daughter Catering and Texas Roadhouse...Live entertainment....2 different bands; Chris Kipp and then a band from Austin that plays the African Djembe's....so cool!!! We will have a silent auction...IChooseYou t-shirts for sell...the opportunity to sponsor a child. We will have videos and great stories from last years trip. There will be bags, pillow cases and hand-made jewelry from the IChooseYou Mom's Sewing Club!!!! Last year was our first dinner and we had several people say that they had bad so much fun and if they had know what it was all about then they would have brought their friends....sooo...BRING YOUR FRIENDS AND COME HAVE A REALLY FUN EVENING!!!!
I know that is a lot of info....but we have a lot going on...SO COME ON OUT AND JOIN US!!!!
Tickets are being sold after each service the next two weeks, at the church office or from Brandi Silva, Darby Burleson, Emily Dudley or from me!!!! COME JOIN US!!!!
Keep watching foe updates....love and hugs to all of you.
Blessings,
Becky Ball
"For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the people's on the face of the earth to be His people, His treasured possession.".
Deuteronomy 7:6
We will of course spen time with our IChooseYou families and the children...I can't wait to see them all...they grow so much in a year. Right ow we have 46 children in school and hopefully will add 4 more this summer.
Our IChooseYou moms are still very busy sewing and making jewelry and doing so well with that work. They are so dedicated and work so hard. We are so proud of them. Darby is hoping to spend some real quality time with them this year taking them away to a new location and away from distractions so that they can concentrate better and so that they can feel a little special...because...these ladies ARE SO SPECIAL.
Brandi will be taking "Pink"....our ladies Bible study...to them again this year. This is such a blessing to the ladies...something that they look so forward to!
It is such a blessing to have 7 people return with us again this year!!! Darby Burleson, Brandi Silva and Deanna Duke will be returning for there 3rd year!!! Haley Littmannwill be returning for her 4th year, Callie Eacret returning for her 2nd year with hopes and dreams of returning for several months next January. Then there is Ted Ball returning for his 5th year...at the age of almost 82, the children probably wouldn't let us in the country without him...what a true blessing he is to the team and especially to the our IChooseYou family! Then this will be my 7th trip over to my "second" home...how blessed I am!!!
We have some amazing new faces on our team this year...Mark Muhlstien...yea another man!!! He will bring so much knowledge and so much love to the team,,,yea Mark!!! Also Kristyn Kicey, a graduating senior at Texas State will be ging foe the first time and will be staying foe 2 months....how exciting!! Next is Jennifer Thames....an amazing person, wife and super mom!! She will be graduating fromTexas State in May with a degree in accounting....oh is she needed....what a blessing she is!!! Then we have the life and the energy of the team...TEXAS STATE STUDENTS...Madison Nye...dance and theater major....will the kids love that!!! David Booth...no words to describe him....singer/songwriter...the Pied Piper with the kids..then we have Kady Gill and Scott Perez joining us with their energy, love and enthusiasm!!!! Also to friends fromKaty Texas will bw joining us....Haley and Scotty Jones....brother and sister that are amazing!!! 2nd year back or oth of them...Haley was with us some is last year....can't wait..It's going to be an amazing trip.
We would all love your prayers from May 21 - July 11. We know that we need your prayers and we as one them....this is not our team, our trip, or our IChooseYou ministry....it all belongs to our Lord...how blessed we are to be ale to be a part of this oth Him!!!
Now...would you like to join us and be a part of the big picture???? You are needed!!!
We are having our 2nd IChooseYou dinner and fundraiser on Saturday, March 31...6:30 at Cypress Creek Curch in Wimberley...tickets are just $15.00 each. What do you get for that $15.00 you ask...wonderful dinner catered by My Mother's Daughter Catering and Texas Roadhouse...Live entertainment....2 different bands; Chris Kipp and then a band from Austin that plays the African Djembe's....so cool!!! We will have a silent auction...IChooseYou t-shirts for sell...the opportunity to sponsor a child. We will have videos and great stories from last years trip. There will be bags, pillow cases and hand-made jewelry from the IChooseYou Mom's Sewing Club!!!! Last year was our first dinner and we had several people say that they had bad so much fun and if they had know what it was all about then they would have brought their friends....sooo...BRING YOUR FRIENDS AND COME HAVE A REALLY FUN EVENING!!!!
I know that is a lot of info....but we have a lot going on...SO COME ON OUT AND JOIN US!!!!
Tickets are being sold after each service the next two weeks, at the church office or from Brandi Silva, Darby Burleson, Emily Dudley or from me!!!! COME JOIN US!!!!
Keep watching foe updates....love and hugs to all of you.
Blessings,
Becky Ball
"For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the people's on the face of the earth to be His people, His treasured possession.".
Deuteronomy 7:6
Sunday, October 9, 2011
The Garden and The Well
Hi Everyone,
Hope everyone is doing well....hope you got some rain!!! We did in Wimberley and are so thankful.
I just wanted to check in with you and let you know all is well with IChooseYou. I have gotten a couple of emails from Aida and from Sarah. The children are doing well in school and are healthy and happy. The mamas are working hard sewing and making jewelry. We hope to have more items when Morris and Aida come to the states in January.
Two of my Texas State students, Callie Ecret and Jessica Chapman have started a new facebook page called "The Garden and The Well"...go check it out. They are wanting to raise money to drill a well in Namatala and to have a garden to feed 400 (yes, 400!!) people!!! They are doing all of the research and the fundraising so check it out, help out if and however you can and most especially pray for Callie and Jessica and this big project that God has laid on their hearts!!! Thank you and bless you girls!!!
Also, would appreciate spreading the word that we are looking for sponsors for our sweet little IChooseYou kiddos. Cost of food, clothing and medical is continuing to go up so if you know of anyone that would love to sponsor a child please send them to the website http://www.ichooseyou.net/ or email me at ichooseyouministries@gmail.com .
I am working on updating the website...please be patient with me....I am learning as I go. I've had a sweet lady offer to help me and I am going to call her but I need to find a day to do that!!!
If you all would, I would like to ask you to pray for the following:
1. Health for our IChooseYou children
2. Health for our IChooseYou moms, dads and siblings
3. Continued prayer for Regina...she is better but still not completely healed
4. Continued prayer for Agnes....she too is better...pray for her salvation and her health (picture of her at bottom of page)
5. More sponsors for IChooseYou so we can help more children
6. Baby David (Loru) is doing well...praise God!!! Have had good reports about him!
7. Another praise....Sulli, Maureen and the JaJa (Baby David's family) are doing well and are going to church and studying the Word!!
8. Pray blessing for Pastor Morris, Aida and their family
9. Blessings for our sweet Sarah that works in our office
10. Blessings for our IChooseYou Sewing moms and the work of their hands
11. Blessings and guidance for the new Garden and Well project
12. Blessings for all of our IChooseYou sponsors and supporters
We all know how important our prayers are for our Ugandan family and for each other...I hope you will join me in prayer for them and for each other.
If you have a prayer request or if you think of something that I have left off, please add it to the blog!!!
Love and blessings to all of you,
Becky
This is a picture of Agnes!!! She is doing so much better!! God is so good and He does answer our prayers...please continue to pray for her to KNOW the Lord!!
Hope everyone is doing well....hope you got some rain!!! We did in Wimberley and are so thankful.
I just wanted to check in with you and let you know all is well with IChooseYou. I have gotten a couple of emails from Aida and from Sarah. The children are doing well in school and are healthy and happy. The mamas are working hard sewing and making jewelry. We hope to have more items when Morris and Aida come to the states in January.
Two of my Texas State students, Callie Ecret and Jessica Chapman have started a new facebook page called "The Garden and The Well"...go check it out. They are wanting to raise money to drill a well in Namatala and to have a garden to feed 400 (yes, 400!!) people!!! They are doing all of the research and the fundraising so check it out, help out if and however you can and most especially pray for Callie and Jessica and this big project that God has laid on their hearts!!! Thank you and bless you girls!!!
Also, would appreciate spreading the word that we are looking for sponsors for our sweet little IChooseYou kiddos. Cost of food, clothing and medical is continuing to go up so if you know of anyone that would love to sponsor a child please send them to the website http://www.ichooseyou.net/ or email me at ichooseyouministries@gmail.com .
I am working on updating the website...please be patient with me....I am learning as I go. I've had a sweet lady offer to help me and I am going to call her but I need to find a day to do that!!!
If you all would, I would like to ask you to pray for the following:
1. Health for our IChooseYou children
2. Health for our IChooseYou moms, dads and siblings
3. Continued prayer for Regina...she is better but still not completely healed
4. Continued prayer for Agnes....she too is better...pray for her salvation and her health (picture of her at bottom of page)
5. More sponsors for IChooseYou so we can help more children
6. Baby David (Loru) is doing well...praise God!!! Have had good reports about him!
7. Another praise....Sulli, Maureen and the JaJa (Baby David's family) are doing well and are going to church and studying the Word!!
8. Pray blessing for Pastor Morris, Aida and their family
9. Blessings for our sweet Sarah that works in our office
10. Blessings for our IChooseYou Sewing moms and the work of their hands
11. Blessings and guidance for the new Garden and Well project
12. Blessings for all of our IChooseYou sponsors and supporters
We all know how important our prayers are for our Ugandan family and for each other...I hope you will join me in prayer for them and for each other.
If you have a prayer request or if you think of something that I have left off, please add it to the blog!!!
Love and blessings to all of you,
Becky
Monday, August 15, 2011
It's a good day in Namatala!
Good Monday morning!
I have just received an update from Aida (in her words)...
1. Baby Loru was taken back to the hospital last Friday (Aug. 12) and he had surgery on Saturday, Aug. 13, praise God everything went well! He is recovering. The parents are always coming to church and they are thankful.
2. Agnes continues to improve, and she looks much better, every Sunday she comes to church.
3. Regina was taken to the hospital and the results showed that she had STI which is something like candida, she was put on medication, but still she is not feeling well. I think we need to take her back and test for HIV.
4. Continue to pray for the children and their families. They are dealing with malaria but getting medication for it.
5. Continue to pray for us because the price of food is going high every day, it is difficult to budget.
Aida wrote, "Greetings to all of our sponsors, we love you soooooo much, Aida and the IChooseYou family."
Thank all of you for your prayers. Please continue to lift all of them up and the rest of the IChooseYou children and their families. As we all know our prayers are all BUT the BEST thing we can do...We love our family in Uganda but the Lord loves them more than we do!!! As they say in Uganda....God is good all the time...All the time God is good!!!
Becky
This is Baby Loru/David and Mama in the hospital after his second surgery.
Agnes....looking very smart! She is doing so much better!
Regina getting her CT scan done.
Baby Loru/David and Mama Loru and Papa Sulli...I think this was taken before the last surgery.
I have just received an update from Aida (in her words)...
1. Baby Loru was taken back to the hospital last Friday (Aug. 12) and he had surgery on Saturday, Aug. 13, praise God everything went well! He is recovering. The parents are always coming to church and they are thankful.
2. Agnes continues to improve, and she looks much better, every Sunday she comes to church.
3. Regina was taken to the hospital and the results showed that she had STI which is something like candida, she was put on medication, but still she is not feeling well. I think we need to take her back and test for HIV.
4. Continue to pray for the children and their families. They are dealing with malaria but getting medication for it.
5. Continue to pray for us because the price of food is going high every day, it is difficult to budget.
Aida wrote, "Greetings to all of our sponsors, we love you soooooo much, Aida and the IChooseYou family."
Thank all of you for your prayers. Please continue to lift all of them up and the rest of the IChooseYou children and their families. As we all know our prayers are all BUT the BEST thing we can do...We love our family in Uganda but the Lord loves them more than we do!!! As they say in Uganda....God is good all the time...All the time God is good!!!
Becky
Friday, August 12, 2011
What's going on....Is...
Hi Everyone,
Thought I'd better give you an update today. So here we go:
Ted is doing pretty well. The doctor in San Antonio could not help us but we saw a doctor last week in Round Rock that thinks he can...Thank you Lord!! Ted will have a procedure on Aug. 23...would love to have your prayers for that!
Crosstalk is going great!!...Had CT Community groups going all summer and they were amazing....thank you CT leaders for your faithfullness! Rise Retreat was last weekend and it went very well...Callie, John and everyone ... great job!!
Now for Baby Loru/David:
They were late getting to the hospital last week and the doctor left so it was postponed until yesterday (Thursday) kind of. Glenn sent Callie a text this morning (they are 8 hours ahead of us...so around 4ish in the pm for them) saying that they were at the hospital for cleansing today and that the surgery will be tomorrow....so I am thinking that his surgery will be on Saturday...Friday night/early Saturday morning for us. I ask again for your prayers...for the Lord to guide the surgeons hands, for Him to guide the nurses and everyone else that is working on Baby Loru/David and for peace and comfort for Mama Loru/David (Maureen) and Papa Sulli. Also for this to be the last surgery for this little guy and that he will grow up strong and that the Lord will use him and his family in mighty ways to serve the Kingdom!!
Thank all of you, the IChooseYou family, for your love, your prayers and your faithfullness.
I will update you when I hear something...I hope all of you are blessed today!
Becky
Thought I'd better give you an update today. So here we go:
Ted is doing pretty well. The doctor in San Antonio could not help us but we saw a doctor last week in Round Rock that thinks he can...Thank you Lord!! Ted will have a procedure on Aug. 23...would love to have your prayers for that!
Crosstalk is going great!!...Had CT Community groups going all summer and they were amazing....thank you CT leaders for your faithfullness! Rise Retreat was last weekend and it went very well...Callie, John and everyone ... great job!!
Now for Baby Loru/David:
They were late getting to the hospital last week and the doctor left so it was postponed until yesterday (Thursday) kind of. Glenn sent Callie a text this morning (they are 8 hours ahead of us...so around 4ish in the pm for them) saying that they were at the hospital for cleansing today and that the surgery will be tomorrow....so I am thinking that his surgery will be on Saturday...Friday night/early Saturday morning for us. I ask again for your prayers...for the Lord to guide the surgeons hands, for Him to guide the nurses and everyone else that is working on Baby Loru/David and for peace and comfort for Mama Loru/David (Maureen) and Papa Sulli. Also for this to be the last surgery for this little guy and that he will grow up strong and that the Lord will use him and his family in mighty ways to serve the Kingdom!!
Thank all of you, the IChooseYou family, for your love, your prayers and your faithfullness.
I will update you when I hear something...I hope all of you are blessed today!
Becky
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Baby Loru/David's second surgery
Well Hello IChooseYou Family,
It's been such a long while since I have updated the blog....We have been home about 6 weeks...wow, how time flies and how life does keep on going. Ted and I have been very busy....going to doctors and hospitals and I'm back at work with Crosstalk. Ted did have to have 2 more units of blood when we returned and we have a doctors appointment on Monday with a new doctor...looking to see if he can help with that darn ole tumor in his small intestines. We would love you prayers concerning this and I will try to be better at updating the blog to let you know what is going on.
Crosstalk is going great!!! We are getting ready for the students to get back to Texas State...we will meet some Freshmen this weekend at "Rise"...go Callie...so proud of what you are doing!
Now...for Baby Loru/David....
If you remember, this is the baby that we found in the village of Namatala with the intestinal problem. He had his first surgery when we were still there and he has done great with the wonderful nursing care that he has gotten from Becca and Taylor while they were still there and by Paul after they left.
Well...tomorrow, Friday...late tonight for us...Baby Loru/David will have his second and last surgery!! Please everyone pray that he does well with this surgery and that the doctors and nurses will be guided by the Lord throughout the procedure and afterwards. Also, let's pray for comfort and peace for Mama Loru/David (Maureen) and Papa Loru/David (Sulli). God is still in the miracle business and we have been blessed to watch how His miracle has unfolded in the lives of Baby Loru/David and his family!!!
If you are wondering why I am calling him Baby Loru/David....David (which I need to start calling him) is his new Christian name...oh our God is so good!!!
So, watch for the next update on this miracle!!!
Hope all is well with all of you.
Blessings,
Becky
It's been such a long while since I have updated the blog....We have been home about 6 weeks...wow, how time flies and how life does keep on going. Ted and I have been very busy....going to doctors and hospitals and I'm back at work with Crosstalk. Ted did have to have 2 more units of blood when we returned and we have a doctors appointment on Monday with a new doctor...looking to see if he can help with that darn ole tumor in his small intestines. We would love you prayers concerning this and I will try to be better at updating the blog to let you know what is going on.
Crosstalk is going great!!! We are getting ready for the students to get back to Texas State...we will meet some Freshmen this weekend at "Rise"...go Callie...so proud of what you are doing!
Now...for Baby Loru/David....
If you remember, this is the baby that we found in the village of Namatala with the intestinal problem. He had his first surgery when we were still there and he has done great with the wonderful nursing care that he has gotten from Becca and Taylor while they were still there and by Paul after they left.
Well...tomorrow, Friday...late tonight for us...Baby Loru/David will have his second and last surgery!! Please everyone pray that he does well with this surgery and that the doctors and nurses will be guided by the Lord throughout the procedure and afterwards. Also, let's pray for comfort and peace for Mama Loru/David (Maureen) and Papa Loru/David (Sulli). God is still in the miracle business and we have been blessed to watch how His miracle has unfolded in the lives of Baby Loru/David and his family!!!
If you are wondering why I am calling him Baby Loru/David....David (which I need to start calling him) is his new Christian name...oh our God is so good!!!
So, watch for the next update on this miracle!!!
Hope all is well with all of you.
Blessings,
Becky
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