One of the services we have been able to provide in partnership with local leaders serving on the island of Hispaniola is access to purified drinking water. This effort is a ministry through the local churches to the community at large. It is an effert to assist in renewing communities and restoring Creation. Currently we provide access to clean drinking water to at least 9000 people. Units like the one in this brief video are being run by pastor's and local leaders in La Mosca, Batey 9, & Batey Cuchilla as well as the Hole shown below. We are currently slated to do 3 (and possibly a 4th) more installations in the next 6 months in 3 other communities: Phaeton, Haiti; 2 in different mountain communities near Puerta Plata (and 1 in Los Perez if #4 works out).
Please take a couple of minutes to see how this system is working in the Hole.
Jamie Barnes & Brooks Ritter Play for G.O.!
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Jamie & Brooks just headlined our Breachbent Benefit show on March 30th! They're auctioning themselves off on Biddingforgood.com to further their impact for our ministry!
Have Jamie and Brooks come to your home and perform a private concert for you and your friends and family. The winning bidder will get an unplugged acoustic concert of shared songs between Brooks and Jamie and this will be a memory that lasts forever. When Jamie and Brooks have Grammy's piled up on their shelves you can proudly say "They performed in my living room once".
Current Bidder has secured them for $500 (as of 4/2/12)! Auction ends on 4/8/12
Register and bid here.
You're Invited!!
Please Join Us on the Rogers' Friend & Family Trip!!
Come serve with us in the
Dominican Republic July 17-24th as we work alongside local leaders to redeem people, renew communities and restore Creation!
We will be celebrating Vicki's 11th year with
the ministry and Jeff's 10th with any of you that care to join us. For those of
you who have never been, experience our ministry first hand and serve alongside
of us. For those that haven't been in a while, please come back with
us!
The focus of the trip will be
helping to construct the G.O. Medical Center, serve children in our nutrition
centers, children's ministry and more!
Cost for the trip is
$950+airfare.
If you are interested in this trip
please email Vicki
We need final commitments no later than March 26th. We would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to see you there!!
One Miracle to Another
Scars cover his body from unsuccessful
surgeries. But two scars in particular
take this mom to my knees. He showed me
during his last hospital stay. One on
his hand and one on his shoulder. With
his timid smile he told me it was from biting.
His mom further explained that his pain is so intense that he bites
himself to endure it until it passes.
Today, about 20 people gathered around this little
boy with the courage of a lion. Even
facing the biggest surgery of his life, his smile brightened the room and the
spirits of everyone around him. He has a
way of doing that. Of capturing your
heart with his smile. Of breaking your
heart with the suffering he’s endured in his short nine years of life.
We prayed for Wilson’s healing. We prayed for peace for his faithful mom,
Tatiana, who has been a warrior for her son.
Who was so willing to put her 9-year-old son on a plane and send him to
a foreign land with a foreign language to live with a family she did not know
in the care of doctors to save his life.
By the grace of God, she was able to come with him, however, she
painfully left two children behind with her mother. Hope in the face of despair. Determination in the face of suffering.
Today, at 8:00am two surgeons will begin restoring
his broken body. In a scheduled six hour
surgery they will be repairing Wilson's urethra and the fistula using tissue
from the inside of his mouth. In addition, they will be reconstructing the
anus, rectum and the colon. It’s a huge
feat for such a little boy. Over the
weekend he began asking his mother difficult questions about his
mortality.
After several people prayed today and the pastor
began thanking everyone for coming, my 6-year-old Sophi
spoke up and said she wanted to pray.
She put her little hand on her friend Wilson and asked the same God that
restored her 2 pound body that had holes in her heart, spots on her brain from
a brain bleed, multiple blood transfusions, a bad staph infection, and 61 days
in the NICU where she teetered back and forth between life and death. She spoke boldly to the God who held her when
I couldn’t and asked Him to heal Wilson too.
She prayed that he wouldn’t be scared.
She prayed that he would be wisdom, peace and light in the world. And with that, our little miracle said
amen.
Today, we pray for another miracle for Wilson with
the same boldness that Sophi prayed.
Please join us.
Red Beans, Rice & Gingerbread with Wilson
We were blessed to host Tatiana and Wilson at our home for a day during Christmas break. The girls got to play with Wilson while we treated them to a Roger’s style red beans an coconut rice. Wilson was not a fan of the coconut rice but enjoyed the beans well enough.
After
dinner they settled in around the table and constructed gingerbread
houses. A good time was had by all. We’re so grateful for the opportunity to
share with them as they await what we all pray will be life enhancing treatment
from Kosair Children’s Hospital.
Keep up with Wilson and other G.O. Ministries updates by clicking "like" on the G.O. Ministries Facebook page.
One Dollar
I was passing the hospital where all my girls were born and thanking
God for His amazing provisions of giving life to each of them when our van sounded
like it needed a trip to intensive care. It eventually started purring
again and I settled back into daydreaming until I got home and told Jeff about
the episode. The next day, she started coughing again, this time with a
massive fever that ended with Jeff and Ella being stranded on the side of the
road. Thankfully, Dave Vogt, a great friend and longtime supporter just
happened to be driving by, and rescued them. Another good friend,
supporter and mechanic took a look at it and gave us the bad news. Our
faithful companion was gone. Engine blown, no chance of revival,
destination…junk yard.
Our Dead Venture
We borrowed a car from Jeff’s parents and began praying for
another car. Old faithful had been paid off for years and we didn’t have
the money for another car. However, over the years we’ve certainly
learned that God supplies all of our needs according to his riches. He
has this way of showing off. Just flexing His muscles and charming
Creation to remind us who He is and who we are in Him. He tells us not to
worry about what we shall eat or drink or wear. We figured He meant what
we should drive as well so without a worry (seriously, this was a victory learned
over time), we put it to prayer.
My best friend and longtime supporter of our ministry called
me asking for prayer because she was discontent. Now this sister is
typically not discontent, especially when it comes to material
things. She saw a van (the day before ours blew up) and couldn’t get it
out of her mind. She wanted it and was even dreaming about it. She
was frustrated because her van was perfectly fine. But man, she wanted
this new van. I prayed with her about it and somewhere in our conversation
I mentioned our van. I didn’t think much about the conversation until Jeff and I were sitting at a leadership conference where the speaker was talking about being generous leaders. My phone beeped with a text message and I admittedly and possibly even rudely checked it during the session. It read, “We would love to give you our car once we have bought another one – if you want it, that is…we love you, friend!” I tearfully passed it over to Jeff who smiled and choked back tears. Seriously, a big show off our God is! We were so grateful (Jeff’s parents may have been more grateful because they would get their car back! J). We were floored even more as I thought they were talking about their older car. She later clarified it was their family van. Wow, humbled. I felt like one of the silly disciples who cast my net over the boat with low expectations only to be overwhelmed with a net so bountiful I could not pull it in.
So, with God’s provision, our friends’ faithfulness, and $1, we now are owners of a van that the girls say is a racecar and draw it with flames coming out of the back (I think that may be because of the way daddy drives it J). Today, if you’re burdened by what you should eat, drink, or wear, or maybe how you will pay that bill, let me encourage you to turn to the One who owns all the cattle on a thousand hills. He is faithful and He loves to show off!
Our Living Voyager!
And for each of you out there that support our ministry financially and through prayers serving vicariously through us, you continue to be a regular means of how God shows off his faithfulness to us and we thank you and Him for that!
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