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Dearest Friends and Family,

This October I will be going on a mission trip to Punta Gorda , Belize. The Lord has been nudging me to be a part of this trip for a couple years now and I am so blessed to get this opportunity. This will be my first mission trip AND my first time traveling outside the country. I cannot wait to see what God has planned!

The trip is scheduled for Saturday, October 22nd through Tuesday, November 1st. Before the trip I will be attending several meetings to help prepare me. Every other meeting is also a financial checkpoint that will help me stay on track with raising the money and the needed support. All $2,700.00 is due by September 18th of this year. This amount of money is a lot for our family to come up with on our own but I know how huge my God is and am trusting Him to provide a way to do what He has called me to do.

Throughout the course of this trip we will be working with Laugh Out LoudMinistry to minister to the children at their orphanage as well as ministering in the villages surrounding.

I humbly ask for your participation in prayer, donations, and more prayer.

Please pray for:

          • Travel & Safety for our team
          • Boldness and strength
          • Guidance for myself and our team
          • Health for myself and our team

As I write this letter I am in the middle of laundry, dishes, homeschooling, cleaning the house and all the necessary things that come with running our home. Please pray for my family, both leading up to my trip and while I am away. This will be the first time that we have been apart for longer than a weekend.

Another important thing I ask that you help me with is donations. Anything and everything counts, whatever amount you feel led to give will be helpful and definitely not wasted. Any and all donations and prayers will be a HUGE blessing to me. All donations are tax deductible.

There are 2 ways that you can donate:

          1. You can send a check made out to “JFC” with “Hilgers, Belize 2016” in the
               memo line to:
                           8200 Southpark Circle, Unit A,
                             Attn: Global Missions
                           Littleton, CO 80120

          2. You can give by credit card online at JFC.org. If you have not given through JFC online in
               the past this will take a brief moment to ‘create an account’. When filling out the form select
               “Missions Fund” and in the comments section write “Belize 2016 – Hilgers”.

Thank you so much for being a special part in this amazing adventure. I have set up this blog that I plan on using to share as I walk through this.

You are my support team and I cannot wait to share with you everything that God is going to do!

So much love,
Heather

Pioneer

Hello Everyone!

I'm sorry for not writing again sooner. I am finding it difficult to put into words everything that I have been thinking and feeling since my last post. There have been so many things going on inside of my head and my heart since deciding to go to Belize.

I just finished up a Bible study by Beth Moore a week ago titled Believing God. In the notes for session 7 Beth says "God has assigned each generation a tremendous responsibility to its children and it's descendants. As the spiritual seed of Abraham, we are called to be far more intentional about building a heritage of faith into our children." This resonates with me.

I don't want my children to say that they are Christians just because I am. I want them to inherit relationship and passionate faith because they see that I lived it. I don't want this to be a case of "do as I say not as I do." I want to leave a clear road for my kids that they can look on and say "that's the way my mom lived, she was crazy in love with God." My goal is to show my children by example what it is to be wildly and wonderfully in love with God in such a way that it's contagious and desirable, so that it is impossible for them to walk away from it because it is such a deep part of them. This is not because I want to indoctrinate them but because I am sold out for God in such a way that it is who I am, how I want to be remembered and the legacy I am choosing to create.

In my notes from the Bible study I wrote this note to my children:

          "My dear children, God has chosen you. You are a part of an amazing heritage. Your heritage
            is a passionate love for God and an amazing testimony to see all saved and healed."

This is what I choose to create. This is what I choose to leave in my wake.

Love. Passion for God. Devotion. Salvation. Healing. Wholeness. Truth. Joy. Peace. Stability. Foundation. Relationship. Love for the Word of God. Excitement. Obedience. Calm. Roots.

I want the glass ceiling of my faith to become the springboard launching my children further and deeper into relationship with my God than I can even imagine possible.

This is why I am doing this. This is part of my why for going to Belize. What I do now in obedience to God blazes the trail for my children to follow. My faith paves the way for the generations that follow me to run down, to go further, do more, and best of all to experience even greater with God.

Verse 2 of this song has been beautifully dancing through my head, and that is why I'm including it. It goes:

You travel light and you travel alone

And when you arrive nobody knows
But your Father in heaven, He is glad you can go
Cause those who come after you will need the road

I am here for a purpose. God has told me to do this for a reason. He has placed me where I am for such a time as this.

This post has become much longer than I intended, but that is what happens when my brain is full. 

Thank you all for reading this and for your support. I will try to do better about posting. Hopefully if I write more often it won't be so long. Hahaha.

Thank you all for your support, encouragement and prayers!

Heather

An Exciting Beginning

Hello dearest family and friends!

This is my 1st time writing a blog as an adult. I'm hoping to be able to keep this fun, interesting and entertaining. I apologize now if my thoughts come out a bit scattered as I learn to write this.

You're probably wondering why I am writing, right? Part of it is to get thoughts out of my head and written down before they are lost in the chaos of life. Some of it is because, as a stay at home mom, I long to connect in real, adult conversations. Most days I can get by just fine with the conversing of my children (who are currently trying to make up their own language and discussing the difference between pooping and passing gas, lovely I know), but there are just some days when I need just a little bit more. Mostly it's to share with you in a way that's more meaningful than passing conversations.

Another reason to start this is to share some exciting news. October of this year I am going on my first mission trip to Punta Gorda, Belize. This will be my first trip outside of the US. I have so many thoughts and emotions going through me right now. I know, without even setting foot on a tarmac that this is going to be an amazing adventure and I'm hoping to keep everyone updated as I travel this path.

I wanted to be able to share a few details of this trip, both for personal education as well as to give you some details on where I am going and what we will be doing.

Belize is located on the south east side of the Yucatan Peninsula in Central America. It is bordered by Guatemala and Mexico.

We will be traveling to the city of Punta Gorda to work with Laugh Out Loud Ministry or LOL, an orphanage in Punta Gorda. We will be doing construction for LOL, working with the kids in the orphanage, as well as ministry in Mayan and Q’eqchi’ villages.

The final thing that pushed the scale in favor of tackling this adventure was the team that is going. Of the 10 members of the team 3 I am blessed to call family, my cousins Dan, Sarah and Dawn. I cannot wait to spend this time with them and have family to share this adventure with.