Update Letter!

Nine Months...

If this were a baby it would be here any day now. I looked at the calender today and realized that as of today I have lived in Alpine for exactly nine months. Then I thought to myself that if this were a baby we would be experiencing breakthrough very soon. Although there have been a few setbacks it looks as though the Dilts family will be moving to Alpine in the next week or so. This is very encouraging because the timing feels perfect. I have been feeling the trickle of hope that big things will be happening soon. This is the catalyst that we have been waiting for! I am very excited and very encouraged which is a huge improvement on my emotional state in previous months. I feel that change is in the air and boy could I use some change right now! Thanks y'all for your prayer and support through thus season of uncertainty!

God Bless,

Alicia Zinn

Prints for Haiti!

In trying to think of ideas to raise funds I thought this was an inspired idea. This is a link that connects to an album containing many of my artistic photography pieces: Prints4Haiti
I posted them to this event in order to raise funds for my upcoming mission’s trip to Haiti. All profit made from this event will go toward my trip to Haiti this July! I hope to add more albums containing other people going on the trips photography so you can purchase prints to help them get on the field as well! Each picture has a small watermark in the bottom right corner this will not be on the print but on the back of any print will be the name of the photographer you supported. I hope that every time you look at the picture you will be reminded that you helped get them to Haiti and I would hope that it will become a constant reminder to pray for the person you supported and to pray for Haiti!

Haiti Trip Basic Info!

Hey everyone!

I know I am not very good about updating this blog. I am trying to get better about that. I just wanted to let everyone I am going to Haiti with Wild Fire this summer. I wanted to give everyone the basic information about our trip!

When: July 6-16

Where: Villages 40 miles from Port-au-Price

How much: $1800, includes airfare, food, lodging (all expenses, except food during travel)

Deposit deadline: April 6th, with $50 deposit;

Other Info: We will be doing relational ministry with the villagers, also doing children's ministry, distribution of food, clothing & care packages we are getting very excited about this trip! This is going to be one amazing mission trip!

I am pretty excited!

God Bless!

Alicia

Six months later...

I realized yesterday that I have officially been here in Alpine for 6 Months!

Wow where has the time gone? So if you are wondering what we have been doing all this time!

Waiting... We are all waiting. Waiting on the Lord waiting on the grant. There is just allot of waiting! But I have learned allot in the process of waiting. I am starting to discover more about God and more about me. This has been a growing process for me. Living on my own and learning to lean on the Lord for everything. It has been a tough two months starting off this New Year! I was financially in shambles and it looked like I was never going to get a job. Then when it seemed like all hope was lost and the grace was running out God showed up in the 11th hour. Why it appears that God likes to wait till the last minute is beyond my comprehension but He always shows up like He said He would. He made sure I was taken care of. I am! Praise God! I started work as a Part Time Admin at the Hospital District office 4 weeks ago and I couldn't be happier! It is so good to be working again and I really enjoy my job. It is not what I came here for but it is a step in the journey that will take me where I am going next. I have found that the road that takes us into the future is paved with more then good intentions but rather faith in God's plan for our life and trusting Him even when we don't know or understand what that plan is supposed to be! God has already blazed the trail we just have to be willing to follow in His footsteps even if we don't know what is around the corner, or even if it looks like we are never going to get out of the desert we seem to be stuck in... God takes us where we are supposed to be when we are supposed to be there. No matter what we think. Yes we have the power to move God's heart with our prayers but that doesn't change Him. He is God and He will always be God. He will always act like He has always acted. I have discovered in this journey when you don't like where you are at in your journey don't look around and say I hate it here I am leaving. But rather look around and say Why don't I like it here? What needs to change in me to bring me to appreciate this place I am in? How can I be made better? You are the only person who can change your perspective... You are the only one who can change how you look at things. Become an active part of the process growing and becoming who you are meant to be. Don't just get mad about that fact that you seem to be stuck in the same place. The Israelites walked around in circles in the desert for 40 years because an entire generation didn't want to go through the process of taking possession of the promise land. It is a slave mentality that I think really held them back an entire generation had lived as slaves for so long that they had forgotten God's promise of freedom and a land to call their own. An entire Generation had to grow up in freedom hearing nothing of God's promises before they were actually lead to the promise land. Just remember the desert you find yourself in may be there to change you not for you to change it. You have the ability to change yourself and your perspective! Take advantage of that ability! Embrace where you are and the process and you will not only find yourself in a new place but also find that you are a different person walking into that place!

I love y'all!

God Bless!

Alicia Zinn