~MMI~

"Missionary Medicine Intensive" What more needs to be said, It was very intensive, very educational an I enjoyed immensely.
 After living in Krinkrin almost a year me and Eva really felt the need to get more education on medical. The need is so great and there is no hospital close enough to help in emergencies. After a couple month of living there we realized that this was going to be a huge part of what we do and none of us have any training. 
 After hearing about MMI in March, I felt God telling me that this was a door he opened for us to walk through. Of course I immediately started looking into it but soon came to the realization that I didn't have enough money to pay for the school much less the plane ticket to get there.
 After much prayer we signed up and put half down for the school "in faith". My faith got stretched after a couple month of not getting any closer to finish paying for the school and for plane tickets. I starting wondering if this was actually was God or if it was something that I had wanted to do so bad that I hadn't heard clearly. 
 About a month and a half before we needed to fly to the States I came down river in mind that if things didn't line up and the money wasn't there for us to go then we would just leave it as it was and not go.
 After making a few phone calls when I came down I was completely blown away. I was told that the school was paid in full and that the money was in my account to buy plane tickets day.
 Yes my faith had faltered and I hadn't trusted God as I should have but he still took my weak faith and helped me in my unbelief. He and amazing God!!!!!! He loves me and cares enough for me to pick me up and take me to the next level. 

Many hours spent pouring over these books.

 My wonderful sister giving it her all.

Getting to practice the long roll.

Practicing suturing.

Poor Eva :( 

We got a lot of  hands on experience.

With our broken arms :)

Our wonderful an amazing teacher. He is a huge
blessing and has helped me so much!!!!

 God let us spend time with some very inspiring people. It was so wonderful meeting each of you and getting to know just a little bit of what God is doing in your lives. I am praying for each you and the mission that God has given you.
 Ya'll have encouraged me more then you can imagine. It was a wonderful honor to be in your class.
I miss each of you Hushpuppies :)

Dear friends.

Another wonderful an encouraging friend.

The Darrow Family has encouraged us greatly and have become
very dear to us.

More beautiful friends.

God has blessed me with so many Godly friends :)

Our class. Each of you have inspired me and encouraged
me in many different ways. May God Bless You!!!!



Eva and I with our completion certificates. 

Here are all the different languages that our class will be working with.
Each one says Thank you to our teacher in their own language.

I want to tell each person that has prayed for and given for this a huge THANK YOU!!!! You guys are the ones who have made this possible. We had way more than enough money for the school and travel expense.
Because of your support many people will be reached through medical help. Many more will come to know our wonderful savior because we will now be able to be much more effective in reaching our community and the people of the river. Thank you for your service to God and His people. Blessings,,,,,

 Your sister in Christ,

 ~Mary~

Sorrow

Last week a young man named Steven died in our community, from what we think is Dengue leaving Mijila his wife to be a 17 year old widow with their one year old son Jon.
My heart is broken for this young girl, barely old enough to be wife and mother and is now widowed at 17.
What can I say to her, words are meaningless. No amount of words can heal her heart. All I have managed to do so far is sit and hold her as we cry together.
Seeing her sit on the ground and cry as they buried her husband tore my heart. All I can do is ask God to be her comforter.
Now their son asks his mom daily "where is daddy"? She just holds him and she cries for how can she explain to him that daddy will never come back. The man they both loved and respected is gone. As Jon grows up he won’t remember that his dad would play with him for hours on their porch or carry him on his shoulders and take him with him wherever he went. All he will know is what his mom will tell him.

They are living with her parents right now so she has someone to take care of and provide for them, but please pray that God will heal her heart, that she would lean on Him and that through this she would draw close Him.

This is Mijila with Jon a couple month ago. Please pray for them.

Missionary Medicine Intensive

I am very excited to right now because I get to buy my ticket to the States today!!!
 Me and Eva are planning on coming to the States on October 3rd to study at Missionary Medicine Intensive (MMI) in North Carolina.  After much prayer waiting God supplied the money for us both to go. This is a huge blessing to us the community of Krinkrin and the communities up and down the river from us.We plan to be in Missouri for about 2 weeks then drive to N Carolina and be there about 3 weeks, after that we plan to drive back to Missouri and fly out of St Louis the following week. In all we plan to be there approx 6 weeks. We will be at the 2 week intensive medical course. They are training missionaries practical medical. Things that they are likely to run into out on the field. As of right now on a daily basis we have approx. 6-8 people in our house that are sick or have a machete cut that needs stitching and other general health issues.

This is a little boy from our community. A pick ax fell on his
head and made a 2 1/2 inch cut.



He got to go home with 7 stitches.

  The closest hospital is in Waspam 6-8 hours down river and most people can't afford to get the boat down river so many people die from something that could have been treated very easily. Our vision is to have a clinic-hospital in the future. A place that people can come to when they are sick and spend the night if they need.
We praying about a building in the community and we would like for you to lift this up in your prayers as well. I will keep updating you whenever I have internet.
Please continue to pray for us as we continue on this journey.
I am also in need of personal support right now. I am supported separately from my family and I have a couple needs right now. 
If God so leads you, you can mail a check to:
New Harmony Church
P.O. Box 724
Salem, MO 65560
 You can make the check payable to New Harmony Church and put my name in the memo.

 Many blessings to you and your family. Mary Lee

Day by Day

Blessings to everyone that prays for me on a daily basis. There is so much that happens Krinkrin that when looking at it from human prospective it would absolutely impossible. But somehow looking back it at it God somehow worked everything out in a wonderful and amazing way. I know that it is because of your prayers that brings me through. 

If we reach just one, none of it was in vain.

Life in Krinkrin is not easy and is almost always challenging. From the time I get up in the morning till I lay down at night it seems like I have been running all day. There is always someone that needs needs medical attention a listening ear or a little one that just needs someone to love them and show then that I will be there for them. As hard as it is at times I really enjoy everyday spent there. I would not have it any other way, these people need hope and direction. I can show them  and teach them. My daily prayer is that I would be able to shine His light into our community because it so desperately needs our loving Savior Jesus. The people need the hope and peace that only He is able to give.

I love these so much.

 I teach English to 1st - 6th grade in the school. Everyday as a teacher I am challenged in a new way as to what is the best way to teach these children. I might be there to teach English but I pray that I will be able to teach far more then that. I want to teach them that there is hope and that they can change their village. They don´t  have to go down the same dark path that their parents and grandparents did. I want to teach them that life is worth living its not just something that we do aimlessly and without more purpose then for today's food. I want to teach them that the only true meaning in life is to serve our wonderful and glorious Savior and He is the only way to abundant life.
Please remember to pray for me as these children look to me. Pray that I would be able show them Jesus.
Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants. Deuteronomy 32:2

Teaching 1st and 2nd grade

Please continue to pray for me as I minister to the young girls from our community. There is so much hopelessness. They don´t have any concept of keeping pure till marriage. It is expected that once you are at a certain age you will go sleep around with any number of men and usually you are pregnant or already have a baby at the age of 15. They look at me and my sisters and ask ...don't you like babies? My answer is ...of course I do. Then they ask... Well why don't you have one?
 How do I explain this to someone that doesn't even have a concept of what a marriage looks like. It is a huge challenge and sometimes I feel like it is impossible task but I now that it isn't because God can change anything. Please pray that I would be able to show them and teach them a better way, God's way.
For what you have done I will always praise you in the presence of your faithful people. And I will hope in your name, for your name is good. Psalms 52:9

This is the girls soccer team and many of these are the ones I am
trying to reach. Please pray for them.

Thanks again for all your many prayers.
But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love Psalms 33:18

Our God is a God of hope!!!!!!!

May the Lord bless y'all, Mary Lee

♥Sweet Wedding Bliss♥

 Moses and Anna Lee

Moses and Anna Lee
Saturday, March 23, 2013



It  was one of the most beautiful blessed days for me. So much peace, joy and happiness was present that I always smile when I think of it.

 God has blessed us with such a beautiful, Godly and selfless new sister. We all love her dearly and it was very exciting for me to be there to celebrate with them. Anna makes a wonderful wife for Moses and he is so good to her and makes wonderful husband.
I will let you look at pictures for they tell a far better story then I ever could.

The wedding ceramony.



I DO!!!



You may now kiss your Bride.



For the first time as Mr. and Mrs. Moses Lee




Greeting their siblings...




....all the way from Nicaragua on Skype.




♥Happiness....




♥Love...Peace ...Joy and pure sweetness...♥



And some good humor.



All of our family that was able to make it.



With our very dear Grandma Ward.



Anna's family.



♥♥



 

Happy sigh.
May God always help you see the best in each other now and onto forever!!!
I love you Moses and Anna.
Sincerly your little sister Mary♥



Yes God still does write beautiful Love stories. We just have to let Him have the pen and He will always take your breath away at the beauty of it all. Why would I try to write my own? Who do I think I am to say that I can do a better job then He who created, loves, cares and protects me. Lord please help me to always trust you with this. ¡¡¡¡Help me Father!!!!

Photo credit goes to Caleb Royer. A wonderful friend and photographer. Thanks Caleb.

Mary Lee

¡¡¡Exciting News!!!

I am very excited to let everyone know that Eva and I will be taking an Intensive Jungle Medical Training in Marion, North Carolina this fall to better help the people in our cummunity and all along the Rio Coco.

Here is the link of the school we plan to attend. We will be taking the two week course in Oct-Nov. https://www.equipinternational.com/training-courses/missionary-medicine-intensive.htm 

If you are interested in helping support us in this you can email me at leefamilyministries@yahoo.com. 

You can make checks payable to New Harmony Church and put in the memo Mary or Eva Lee. Our mailing address is:

P.O. Box 345 Houston, Mo. 65483

The cost of this course is $980.00 per person plus close to $1000.00 per person to for traveling to the States and and extra $500.00 for living and traveling expense during our stay. For the both of us we will be in need a total of $5000.00. 

 We are planning to be in the States a total of one month. We will be taking a CPR and First Aid classes when we first get there then travel to North Carolina and doing the 2 week training and then travel back to Missouri.

May God bless you!!! Mary Lee

 

~Life in Krinkrin~

We moved to Krinkrin Nicaragua on February 1, 2013.
It is a blessing and a pleasure to live in Krinkrin. Since we have moved their the people of Krinkrin have opened their arms and accepted us. They are so happy to have us.
 It seems everyday someone comes to our house to bring us some sort of food; plantains, beans, yucca, duswa, sugar cane; regardless how little it is, this is their way of saying welcome to our village.
 We are almost never alone, usually we have half a dozen curious onlookers sitting on our steps or on the floor watching what we do, how we do everything and what we eat. Sometimes I just want to be alone away from everyone but I always remember that our actions speak louder then our words an so I will just live freely and let them watch. After all we moved to their village and to their culture they should be able to take reports home to their family's.
 We have had some interesting times with the kids :) They are so fun and love to have us play or talk with them and they never tire of asking us how to say "kalila" in English. When we say CHICKEN they always giggle and try to repeat us. I am not quite sure why it sounds so funny to them but even adults laugh :D

 I must say life in Krinkrin is hard. We have had to learn to live in a whole new way since moving. From carrying a 5 gallon bucket of water on my head half mile through the mud to washing our clothe in the river, to starting to cook 3 1/2 hours before the meals served because it just takes that long to make something over an open wood fire to translating all day for my family which is still a little challenge for me, but it is a life that I enjoy. There is so much life to be lived and so much hope and potential in this little village.
 It is going to be a long hard road but I believe that God is going to make it all possible even when it will look impossible. I am sure that at times the community will not be happy with us because something didn't go quite as they wanted it to but God is in control of it all and I am up for the ride.
If He brings us to it He'll bring us through it!!!!
 Something I am defiantly going to miss once we get our beds built is sleeping in my hammock. That is something I so enjoy. But we need to build our beds so we have more room.

Our village; Krinkrin.

♥ Such a sweet smile. I love the muddy little feet :)

:)

Checking us out

Getting water at the spring,



Through the jungle,

Down over a log bridge and on home :)

Doing laundry.

Laundry

Just hangin out with Eva :)

Remember; the little things in life count the most ♥
Thanks again for all your prayers and support.