How My Passion for Christian Woman Job Corp (JVR) Started
Isn’t it exciting when God talks to you? Have you ever seen a person in a store, or in a car talking with full facial expressions, interacting with one or both arms and hands, as into a full fledged conversation, but nobody is near? Today with cell phones, it’s a pretty common site. Well, having a conversation with God is sort of like that. Nobody else knows you’re talking to somebody, but inside your emotions skyrocket. Sometimes when you try to share what God has said, people look at you like your some kind of nut. That is how my passion for Christian Woman’s Job Corp, (CWJC) started.
For as long as I can remember, even before I accepted Christ, I knew there was something God wanted me to do. I knew that everything I did or was involved in, was for a reason, a purpose. Even my thoughts, attitudes, and feelings, how I dealt with them, used them, didn’t use them. Daily activities, mundane tasks, down right unpleasant tasks, not to mention life’s little, and not so little surprises! Circumstances out of our control, and consequences because of our control, all affect our lives. At one point sometime in the year 2000, God spoke details to me about a ministry He wanted me to become involved in. He gave me details after details. I wrote them all down. A budget, supplies I would need, type of needs to be met, type of people that needed to be helped, etc. I shared my excitement with family and friends.
A remark my son made once when we were pointing out his strengths and talents; “Well, now that I know I have it, what do I do with it?” That’s how I felt, now that I have a plan, what do I do? Wait on God! Was my answer-and still is. Then, February 2004, while teaching a Girls in Action (GA’s) class, God opened up the next step to His plan. In the GA Monthly magazine I was teaching from, the missionary emphasis was on CWJC. As I read about what CWJC was about, what they did, who they helped, I could hardly contain myself. CWJC was the detailed ministry God had given me a few years before. The GA’s thought I was stranger than usual!
Afterward I spoke to our State WMU Director, attended conferences and training. Now I am a CWJC Certified Site Coordinator still waiting on God as He directs my next steps. God is so amazing, I still marvel daily at His creations. I have since learned that God has spoken to many people across the country as well as the world about this need. There is no doubt in my mind that this ministry is needed world wide.
Even today, as I try to wait patiently on the Lord for my next steps, He is showing me more ways He will be using this ministry.
Thank you for your prayers!