T-Shirts!

To get the word out about our trip and missions, we have come up with a t-shirt design!

Prices are, but not limited to, $15 dollars, and ALL of the money raised will go directly toward our trip to Swaziland on June 29th-July 30th. Click here or here for more information about my upcoming trip!  Any left over donations will go to needed funds while in Swaziland and at the carepoints.

If you are interested, contact me or comment on the post and I will get you information.

To purchase,  Mail a check/ $$$ to:

Chandler Robertson

150 North Ridge Dr.

Saltillo, MS 38866

Or you can always give it to me personally!

Please include your name, address, phone number and size(s) needed.

I had some wonderful help designing this shirt and am so thankful, in advance, for those who support our endeavor. May Christ have ALL the glory as we go and love on His little ones.

Shirts will be ordered once at the end of may and then again at the end of June!

If you will need the shirt shipped to you, please attach a few extra dollars (an estimate on shipping) to your purchase. If you are in the Greenwood or Jackson area, I can get your shirt to you, no problem! :)

A HUGE thank you in advance!

You know in Tangled, where Repunzel hits Flinn over the head with a frying pan. Yeah... I now know how he feels. 

  "I am the True Vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.  Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.  Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.  By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.  As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. These things I command you, so that you will love one another."- John 15:1-17

"Blessed is the one you choose and bring near,
   to dwell in your courts!
We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house,
   the holiness of your temple!"- Psalm 65:4

Praying for humility this morning. How many times I get caught up in the pleasures of this world and forget that this-- this life-- is so not about me.

Update

Joyful. Thankful. Excited. Nervous. Scared. Overwhelmed with how God is working. Multiply all of those feelings by 6546542313574 and that is how I am feeling today. I am so joyful and thankful. Thankful for our new home. Sad to have left our old home, but thankful and excited for new beginnings, new friends, and new opportunities. Thankful for the $2700 dollars out of the $4375, that you all have generously donated towards my trip in 57 days. 57 DAYS! To think that in less than two months (Lord willing) I will be back in Swaziland astounds me.

I am so excited about how the preparations for Swaziland are going. He is truly giving me the desires of my heart! Seeing that I only started raising support one month ago, I am overwhelmed and thankful for the response people have given.

As I mentioned before I STILL have $1,675 to go!

If you would like to donate, here are some ways to get involved:

Mail to me directly:

Chandler Robertson
150 North Ridge Drive
Saltillo, MS 38866

Online donations:

Click this link:

https://www.adventures.org/give/donate.asp?giveto=partFund&multi=


OR

Go to: http://www.adventures.org/
Click: DONATE
Click: MISSION TRIP APPLICANTS
Put in your information.


With online donations you will need this information:

I am going through the Ambassador Program.
Name: Hannah Chandler Robertson


Also,  the paypal link is on the right :)

I ask for your prayers. Our team is getting so excited. We now have leaders! (BTW, they are so awesome. I am so excited to be under their leadership!) We cannot do this without second by second intercession with our Father. Swaziland is such a spiritually dark place, I pray we will light it up with everything we do while we are there. I ask that you pray for me as I prepare myself physically and emotionally.

You all bless me everyday. I can feel your encouragement already! I am so thankful for the body of Christ around me.

Sometimes (most of the time!) life doesn't go as we plan, and I find this to be more and more true by the hour.

To list all of the things going on right now would take days; but in the middle of this chaos, God is showing me that even this is holy ground.


Let me elaborate...

"But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!" So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God." (Galatians 4:4-7)

.As Christians, believers in Christ, God lives IN us.

So when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?" He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. ⁸But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth." (Acts 1:6-8)

"And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh..."(Acts 2:17)

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up,
   who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
"I dwell in the high and holy place,
   and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit,
 to revive the spirit of the lowly,
   and to revive the heart of the contrite. (Isaiah 57:15)

"And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. You know him, for He dwells with you and will be in you... These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you." (John 14:16-17, 25-26)

To think that God, who can only dwell in the high and holy place, lives in me... absolutely astounding and all because of Jesus. It might sound overly simplistic, but my God is with me right now. In Genisis you read of  Moses. He was just doing his job, trying to shepard his sheep, and God came to him in the form of a burning bush. God was in his midst. Moses took off his shoes because he was standing on holy ground. Correct me if I'm wrong, but since God lives in us, wouldn't everywhere we go be holy ground? I pray that I will treat every situation as so.


Dad is in the hospital? holy ground.
Moving to tupelo? holy ground.
When life feels like a mess and I feel like I have no patience left in me? holy ground.

and all for His glory.

"Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing." (James 1:2-4)

 I don't know about you, but that gives me uncontainable joy!

“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.” ~ C.S. Lewis

I thought you all might like a small glipse at what I will be blessed with this summer....

Getting to put a smile on these precious faces...

oh, and clean them up a little ;)

...love on, pamper, and play with those at the carepoints, orphanages, and hospitals...

Feed these hungry bellies!

For most of these kids, that is their only meal for the day.

We saw this little guy almost every single day.

He was steadily talking to me in siSwati the whole time he was eating!

He obviously didn't realize how bad my siswati was at the time.

(If educated, the kids know basic english, which is such a blessing! Siswati isn't the easiest language! We definitely learned a bunch through our translator.)

- Susanna (story of this sweet little one to come)

Most importantly, tell them about the love of Christ.

That God's Son came to this earth and gave us LIFE in Him!

Tell them that they are beautifully and wonderfully made, not mistakes.

Tell them that the God of the universe, watches over them day and night.

He never grows weary or faint. He never get tired.

And is ALWAYS there for them. He never changes and never will.

He is the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End,

and He is worthy of all our praise.

He is good.

He is holy and just, and at the same time, He is grace and mercy.

He has a plan for their lives.

He know's where we are and knows where we've been.

(and still loves us!)

He works for the good for those who love Him.

He will never leave us or forsake us.

He is the perfect Father and He loves them, dearly.

 "There's no one, there's no one like Jesus. There's no one, there's no one like Him."

We will also be praying with those in the hospitals, hospices, those in there last stages of HIV/AIDS and TB, and loving on the children that most of these young parents are leaving behind. The life expectancy rate in Swaziland is 28 years old with an HIV rate staggering at 45%. Pray for them. Pray for us as we pray them and try to help in every way we can. God has a plan, and His plans are always for His glory and for good.

I have had multiple people ask me why I am going back to Swaziland... Wondering why I go?

For our King and His glory, we will love and rescue His little ones.

"God is God. Because He is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to."
                                                                                        - Elisabeth Elliot

"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." - James 1:27