NORINA'S JOY: All the above accomplishments became unimportant to Norina. She realized that the most important thing she ever did in her life was to give her life to Jesus Christ.
Norina closed her business and began to follow her KING. She attended bible college, missionary school and was certified in biblical counseling at Calvary Chapel, Fort Lauderdale. In 1997 she trained in Honduras with pastor Danny Morales. She returned to Honduras eight times. She served, short term mission in Haiti, one year in Costa Rica, short term to Nicaragua, short term in Requena, Peru in the Peruvian Amazon, and four and a half years in Medellin, Colombia. She worked with trafficked children, street gangs, and orphans. Called out of Colombia she returned to Florida where the Lord planted a house church which continued for four years. She volunteered as a warehouse assistant for Restoration Bridge International, Lake Worth, Florida organizing and preparing food for the poor. God was training her for Israel where she served in a warehouse with Teen Challenge missionaries. The team meet with Beduin women offering them clothing and food and sharing the gospel with them. Living with broken women at Teen Challenge, serving at Red Carpet in Tel Aviv and at a soup kitchen in Jerusalem were all new experiences. She spent time in Cypress and nine months Kitale, Kenya, Africa. The Lord started an orphanage in Kitale, Fun Faith And Restoration Ministry, (FFARM), which is still in progress today.
Following the KING gives her joy. She has learned that without HIM she is and has nothing. Learning to love people through Jesus Christ's example has been a life’s lesson. She struggled to find out what her purpose was in this world and she found that worshiping and serving the Lord was the only way she wants to live. Her most joyous years have been leaving her career and serving her Lord as a missionary.
Matthew 28:19-20 NKJV
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.