Hannah Carden

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All Good News

Posted by Hannah Carden on 4/24/2012

I will begin this blog by relaying some excellent news, I AM FULLY FUNDED!!

Thank you so much to ALL those who supported me! (Finacially and Emotionally!)

I have felt so loved through out the whole process of fundraising; the generosity of the people in my life is beyond humbling. Second Corinthians tells us :

"You must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver." 2 Corinthians 9.7

and that is exactly what I encountered while I was fundraising, cheerful givers. When I first signed up for the race I was daunted by the thought of fundraising, but it ended up being such an encouraging and beautiful expreince.

Secondly,I am proud to introduce you to my new team! Team Genuine :

LOVE THESE LADIES. They are all amazing girls; I am pumped to be on an all womens team. There is a levelof community and closeness you can find with women that you just can't find anywhere esle. And clearly I am excited to still be on a team with my old teammates Sarah and Molly.

I am so looking forward to the rest of the time that I have with my new team!

The third and final bit of good news: My team is being very well taken care of here in Moldova. We are living and working at a Church in Ungheni. All of the church members here have shown us somuch love! We have spent a lot of time with the youth of the Church. We have all felt encouraged by them, thier faith, and thier openness with us.

These guys are the best!!! My biggest hope is that we can bless them as much as they have blessed us!

It has been such a good month so far, I can't wait to the what the last two weeks will bring :)

I will begin this blog by relaying some excellent news, I AM FULLY FUNDED!!

Thank you so much to ALL those who supported me! (Finacially and Emotionally!)

I have felt so loved through out the whole process of fundraising; the generosity of the people in my life is beyond humbling. Second Corinthians tells us :

"You must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver." 2 Corinthians 9.7

and that is exactly what I encountered while I was fundraising, cheerful givers. When I first signed up for the race I was daunted by the thought of fundraising, but it ended up being such an encouraging and beautiful expreince.

Secondly,I am proud to introduce you to my new team! Team Genuine :

LOVE THESE LADIES. They are all amazing girls; I am pumped to be on an all womens team. There is a levelof community and closeness you can find with women that you just can't find anywhere esle. And clearly I am excited to still be on a team with my old teammates Sarah and Molly.

I am so looking forward to the rest of the time that I have with my new team!

The third and final bit of good news: My team is being very well taken care of here in Moldova. We are living and working at a Church in Ungheni. All of the church members here have shown us somuch love! We have spent a lot of time with the youth of the Church. We have all felt encouraged by them, thier faith, and thier openness with us.

These guys are the best!!! My biggest hope is that we can bless them as much as they have blessed us!

It has been such a good month so far, I can't wait to the what the last two weeks will bring :)

I will begin this blog by relaying some excellent news, I AM FULLY FUNDED!!

Thank you so much to ALL those who supported me! (Finacially and Emotionally!)

I have felt so loved through out the whole process of fundraising; the generosity of the people in my life is beyond humbling. Second Corinthians tells us :

"You must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver." 2 Corinthians 9.7

and that is exactly what I encountered while I was fundraising, cheerful givers. When I first signed up for the race I was daunted by the thought of fundraising, but it ended up being such an encouraging and beautiful expreince.

Secondly,I am proud to introduce you to my new team! Team Genuine :

LOVE THESE LADIES. They are all amazing girls; I am pumped to be on an all womens team. There is a levelof community and closeness you can find with women that you just can't find anywhere esle. And clearly I am excited to still be on a team with my old teammates Sarah and Molly.

I am so looking forward to the rest of the time that I have with my new team!

The third and final bit of good news: My team is being very well taken care of here in Moldova. We are living and working at a Church in Ungheni. All of the church members here have shown us somuch love! We have spent a lot of time with the youth of the Church. We have all felt encouraged by them, thier faith, and thier openness with us.

These guys are the best!!! My biggest hope is that we can bless them as much as they have blessed us!

It has been such a good month so far, I can't wait to the what the last two weeks will bring :)

I will begin this blog by relaying some excellent news, I AM FULLY FUNDED!!

Thank you so much to ALL those who supported me! (Finacially and Emotionally!)

I have felt so loved through out the whole process of fundraising; the generosity of the people in my life is beyond humbling. Second Corinthians tells us :

"You must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver." 2 Corinthians 9.7

and that is exactly what I encountered while I was fundraising, cheerful givers. When I first signed up for the race I was daunted by the thought of fundraising, but it ended up being such an encouraging and beautiful expreince.

Secondly,I am proud to introduce you to my new team! Team Genuine :

LOVE THESE LADIES. They are all amazing girls; I am pumped to be on an all womens team. There is a levelof community and closeness you can find with women that you just can't find anywhere esle. And clearly I am excited to still be on a team with my old teammates Sarah and Molly.

I am so looking forward to the rest of the time that I have with my new team!

The third and final bit of good news: My team is being very well taken care of here in Moldova. We are living and working at a Church in Ungheni. All of the church members here have shown us somuch love! We have spent a lot of time with the youth of the Church. We have all felt encouraged by them, thier faith, and thier openness with us.

These guys are the best!!! My biggest hope is that we can bless them as much as they have blessed us!

It has been such a good month so far, I can't wait to the what the last two weeks will bring :)

I will begin this blog by relaying some excellent news, I AM FULLY FUNDED!!

Thank you so much to ALL those who supported me! (financially and emotionally!) I have felt so loved through out the whole process of fundraising; the generosity of the people in my life is beyond humbling.

Second Corinthians tells us :

"You must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver." 2 Corinthians 9.7

That is exactly what I encountered while I was fundraising, cheerful givers. When I first signed up for the race I was daunted by the thought of fundraising, but it ended up being such an encouraging experience.

Secondly,I am proud to introduce you to my new team! Team Genuine :

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From hannahcarden.theworldrace.org

LOVE THESE LADIES. They are all amazing girls; I am pumped to be on an all women's team. There is a level of community and closeness you can find with women that you just can't find anywhere else. And clearly I am excited to still be on a team with my old teammates Sarah and Molly:

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From hannahcarden.theworldrace.org

I am so looking forward to the rest of the time that I have with my new team!

The third and final bit of good news: My team is being very well taken care of here in Moldova. We are living and working at a Church in Ungheni. All of the church members here have shown us so much love! We have spent a lot of time with the youth of the Church. We have all felt encouraged by them, their faith, and their openness with us.
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From hannahcarden.theworldrace.org

These guys are the best!!! My biggest hope is that we can bless them as much as they have blessed us!

It has been such a good month so far, I can't wait to see what the last two weeks will bring :)

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Happy Family

Posted in General Posts by Hannah Carden on 3/25/2012

It took 50 hours, a bus, two trains, three planes, and stepping foot in four different countries, but I am in Romania and loving it! The architecture is beautiful, the food is delicious, and we are spending the month with the fabulous Team Relentless!

Me and my team enjoying Timisoara, Romania on travel day!

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This month we are working with an orginaization called Caminul Felix, which means Happy Family. Caminul Felix takes abandoned, orphaned, and handicapped children and places them in a loving family. They built a village of houses and found parents that were willing to give thier lives to care for these children. Each set of parents was/is given 12-16 children, variying in age, and a family is created. The parents don't work; The orginization fund raises support for each child, the parents only job is to care for these children. You can see the benefits of this reflected in the lives of the children, and young adults that we have met here. It has been a blessing to spend time with these families. I love playing with all the kids in village two.

Sarah and I swinging with some of our new friends!

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The compund we are staying on, not only houses all the families, but has a dairy farm, a mechanics shop, and a sewing shop. As the kids get older they can work at any of these places, and all the proceeds go to Caminul Felix. We are staying in a house that is right by the barn and I love going to visit all the new calves that are born here! I even helped bottle feed them one day.

We spend time with different families in the afternoon, and in the morning we help build more houses on the property. The houses we are building are called transitional houses. They are for parents that have been here a while and only have a few children left that are still at home. They move into the smaller houses so that a new family can move into the larger house, and more Romanian children can have a home. Camunil Felix is an amazing orginization that is dedicated to bettering the lives of the children they take in, and putting them in a realy family structure. The whole community has been so kind and open with us; I have loved working with them!!

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Dominican Rising

Posted in General Posts by Hannah Carden on 1/20/2012

Hello!!

I am currently sitting at Pollo Rey, which for our non Spanish speaking friends means "Chicken King". It is a fifteen minute walk from the house we are staying in, and it is here that I dip my feet into the glorious pool of WiFi after living in a desert of dis-connectivity.

This months ministry is called Dominican Rising, it has my team, visiting families,working with children, and even farming!

On Sundays and Thursday my team and I ride on the back of a truck for about an hour, marveling at the the beautiful scenery, into a village called Cativo. I love visiting the families there. Their hospitality, generosity and willingness to serve is so unbelievably humbling. I am excited to further my relationships with them this month.

Sarah and I riding to Cativo!
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On Mondays and Tuesdays we walk to a part of San Jaun called Mojados. Which means "the wet ones" It is called this because it lies lower than the rest of the town and very often floods. I love it because we get to spend so much time with the kids. There are so many of them, and they have a ton of energy! We play with them and act out Bible stories, and give them as much love as we possibly can until we leave exhausted, but so happy!

On Wednesdays we take up our pick axes and shovels and head out to a small patch of land that is owned by our ministry contact. We are working on digging trenches for plantain trees, that will help to feed some of the people in the villages.

So far my time here in San Jaun has been amazing. We are blessed to have a wonderful house to stay in,along with three other teams! I cannot wait to see what the next few weeks will hold!

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Heart Break

Posted in General Posts by Hannah Carden on 10/22/2011

When I camp to camp I have the phrase "heart broken" bandied about a great deal, "She had her heart broken for India" or "He had his heart broken for a family he met". I thought when I heard this phrase that I had some idea what it meant, however experiencing it is a completley different. Last night we came together a participated in a simulation that was supposed to represent what it was like to be a refugee leaving a war torn country and trying to cross the border into another. It was confusing and frustrating and even though it was just a simulation, I still felt fear. It came to the point that I could no longer hold back my tears and had to break away from the simulation. I knew that in the back on my mind that I was safe, but the emotions of situation still felt very real. Afterwards when we were processesing as a group, we were given statistics on just how many people in this world are refugees. This broke me even more. It solidified it my mind the importance of what we are doing. There are so many people in the dark, and it is our responsibility to show them what it means to be in the light.

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