Love Crosses Over

Sending Love from the Red Earth

Nancy Garver Prayer Warrior

Love is a conquest. Here in Ghana, Africa it is both challenging and rewarding to walk in villages that desperately lack the basic medical and survival needs. People still give you a smile while others call you Oboroni (White Person) and in the states I am a Bibini (Black Person). The Love of God compels me to move forward in the upcoming year and not focus on the hard times. I am a firm believer the best is yet to come for 1DivineLine2Health and partners. It is the last day of 2016 and reflecting on all the challenges in the mission field and at home I am stronger, wiser and persistent and God's divine protection kept me safe. It was not easy, a lot of sweat, pain with mostly victories. The positive has been more than the negative. Blessed to have new friends and family members. The Gilgal Coordinators and Jennifer the Marketing Development Director are God sent in helping to share the work load. Nancy Garver, who I call the Nuclear Weapon is a prayer warrior and the others like her have been instrumental in this Faith walk. They have earned their badges for their suffering endured and standing in the gap for the remnant who serve where no one likes to serve. Breaking grounds is never easy. I am getting ready for a 12 hr drive to a village with a local missionary and crew to reach out to a nomad Muslim community.

Heart of God

God has surrounded me with a core of lovely people in all the places traveled that makes the task easier to achieve. I call them the ministering angels. God's Love is selfless & sacrificial and human love is naturally selfish. I heard a pastor say death and life go together in Christ. Basically you die to self in order to love like Jesus. The Golden Rule is to Love God first and Love everybody. The children listen and are amused when I play with them charades and demonstrate  love by kissing a boy on a cheek and lightly pinching or punching someone as examples of no love. They understand when it is time for them to answer they collectively give me the response when I point to the cross. I still can't understand why adults can't practice it? Greed is so prevalent here. I was shocked to see a pastor preach a bogus sermon out of context from Exodus and people showered him with money. Same preacher receives money from American churches and doesn't forward it to the designated missionaries and pastors. My friends this is happening here and in other places I have traveled. Imagine you are teaching the golden rule in the communities and the first thing people do is volunteer their frustrations about the church's pastor. I get it unfortunately this also happens in nonprofits. Even if you try to talk to the pastor he denies and pouts to mission headquarters and is enabled to continue the work without counseling.

The biggest challenge when you work with organizations that want to take your supplies abroad is selling them. It hurts when you see the items being sold in front of you. This is the reason I challenge every organization to do their due diligence. What I have experienced is an unbelievable adventure this year. See for yourself in these photos. Thank God I was able to retrieve most of the medical supplies that was sent here. There were a few boxes missing and there was no purpose for the supplies where they were discovered. I am sure they would have been auctioned. Thank God for the ministering angels and officials that agreed to help. They realized the original documents were falsified. 

As a Love warrior, I need to "take the helmet of salvation and the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God." Sometimes people don't understand the labor it takes to establish the connections with the donating organizations and institutions. It takes mental, physical, research and spiritual discipline. It is a collaborative effort that makes this mission a blessing. Another year the organization operated from my basement. The supplies reached Guatemala and Africa twice, met the needs of local organizations and other states. We have now three new major suppliers aside from Nationwide Children Hospital. Riverside Methodist Hospital OR team, Unisource and Helping Hands have joined in the donations of medical and other types of supplies. The most enjoyable part of this organization is the power of Love demonstrated by the children, volunteers and others outside the 4 walls of the church to those in need locally and internationally. I pray the Love Depot will be purchased or donated in 2017. 

We need partners and new board members to help fund the Love Depot, orphanages, water projects, and toilets in schools to decrease urinary tract infections in girls. There are villages that need schools built that can be fully endorsed by 1DivineLine2Health. How sad to see mission schools underserved because their teachers salaries have been diverted by the local mission organization. The mission of 1divineline2health is local and global we only endorse organization that live by the Love Warrior's code of honor; "Love God first and love thy neighbor as thyself."

A few weeks ago Wanda and I entered the Love Depot. It was a wow experienced. There were a few miracles that day that reassured me that building is the love terminal to save people locally and in many other countries.

Another miracle for 1DivineLine2Health is the Gilgal house that helps rehabilitate women who are survivors of human trafficking it was donated by a kind man. The organization has the Love mobile perfect to transport girls to detox centers when we are ministering to them. The Love mobile is used to pick up the medical and other supplies to sort and distribute them. All of these are victories of 2016.

I thank all the donors, volunteers, children, teens, prayer warriors, TBN team,
organizations, institutions, Rhemanites, and family for supporting the vision of 1DivineLine2Health. Missionaries please don't give up the call God has placed in your hands. Suffering leads to God's glory in you. You become His-Story of Grace and love on earth. Love until it hurts but set boundaries. Advocate for the disenfranchised.  My sincere prayer is for everyone to leave your regrets in the past. Join me in another Love Journey in 2017. Let us cross over to the new year by choosing to Love others by helping them experience hope and faith through your actions. Spend sometime with a stranger in a soup kitchen or support a project abroad next year. Be the Love that heals the young and wise. If you would like to be a part of 1DivineLine2Health in 2017 send me an email  at 1divineline2health@gmail.com or give me a call 614-313-0544. Have a Joyful & Blessed New Year! Remember the only remedy to Heal the Sick & Heal the World is Agape Love.

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