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God Keeps His Promises – Part II

God loves to fulfill His promises!  Since the earthquake in Haiti on January 12, 2010, some of us in Life Teen have felt that God wanted us to open a Catholic mission base in Haiti. The more we learned about Haiti – poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, little or no youth ministry, some villages only receiving mass once or twice a year – the more we were drawn to using the gifts and blessings of Life Teen in Haiti. However, Life Teen representatives went to Haiti nineteen times in the first

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God’s Schedule, Not Ours

There are two things that have been running through my mind lately during holy hour. Usually when things keep re-popping up in my little mind, it’s a sign that God is trying (and re-trying) to tell me something. One of the things is, “Girl, would you please work on your German?!” That one is fairly self-explanatory since we are heading to Germany, and my German is a little rusty. The other thing, however, keeps unfolding. In Matthew 26:39, Jesus says, “Not what I want, but what You want,” in

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