Dear FCA Parents and Friends,
Thank you for supporting the Wednesday, February 22nd Huddle with your help and prayers!
Guest speaker, Jana Alayra's powerful testimony, blew away the 200 kids who crowded into Mr. Roundy's science classroom! Jana, who has three children, the youngest at Irvine High; shared the challenges she has faced and how God brought her through each one. "In this world you will have trouble"Jana quoted from John 16:33, "But take heart! I have overcome the world."Jana then shared the trouble she faced from the time she arrived in California as a teenager through her years as a young mother--unimaginable trouble including the suicide of a best friend, the death of her little sister, struggles with bulimia, an unfaithful husband who left her with two little children, and just when things were looking up, the death of her four year old daughter, Lynnie.
"It is not the life I would have chosen", Jana said, but she then shared how God used each of those tragedies for good. The songs our kids are most familiar with including "Jump, jump, jump into the light, light, light," and "Dig Down Deep" were written in response to her four year old's death. When Jana mentioned these songs, the buzz of conversation around the room increased as the "light dawned" on many of the kids who realized Jana was the voice of so many songs they had grown up listening to! They had no idea that such joyful songs were a testimony to God's ability to overcome pain and sorrow!
It was a very powerful 15 minutes. We parents were certainly as blessed as the kids!
Thank you for supporting the Wednesday, February 22nd Huddle with your help and prayers!
Guest speaker, Jana Alayra's powerful testimony, blew away the 200 kids who crowded into Mr. Roundy's science classroom! Jana, who has three children, the youngest at Irvine High; shared the challenges she has faced and how God brought her through each one. "In this world you will have trouble"Jana quoted from John 16:33, "But take heart! I have overcome the world."Jana then shared the trouble she faced from the time she arrived in California as a teenager through her years as a young mother--unimaginable trouble including the suicide of a best friend, the death of her little sister, struggles with bulimia, an unfaithful husband who left her with two little children, and just when things were looking up, the death of her four year old daughter, Lynnie.
"It is not the life I would have chosen", Jana said, but she then shared how God used each of those tragedies for good. The songs our kids are most familiar with including "Jump, jump, jump into the light, light, light," and "Dig Down Deep" were written in response to her four year old's death. When Jana mentioned these songs, the buzz of conversation around the room increased as the "light dawned" on many of the kids who realized Jana was the voice of so many songs they had grown up listening to! They had no idea that such joyful songs were a testimony to God's ability to overcome pain and sorrow!
It was a very powerful 15 minutes. We parents were certainly as blessed as the kids!
It still amazes us that we can do this--share the truth of God's love, grace, and power--on our campus! For as long as He makes it possible, may we continue to be faithful in our prayers and constant in our support of both this ministry and the kids it is reaching!
Humbly,
Linda and Cherie
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