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For this week's Month of Missions series I'm taking us back to last years fan favorite month of missions sit down with Love One founder Suzanne Mayernick! We talk all about Love One International, the heart and mission behind it, how the Lord called her to begin this journey, and my favorite part is how her heart for Christ shines through.  Love One's Mission:In 2007, Mike and Suzanne Mayernick flew to Uganda to bring their little girl, JosieLove, home from Uganda. When they arrived, the 15-pound shell of a 3 1/2-year-old who they came to adopt was raging with a 105 degree fever and at a routine medical exam, they found out that that she had malaria, tuberculosis, and was HIV positive.After just a few months at home receiving the love, attention, and the medical care she needed, this once dying little girl blossomed into a healthy, thriving child. Watching JosieLove's transformation sparked a fire inside of Suzanne and she knew that she was called to help more children like her daughter...so she started Love+One.Love+One International got its name from JosieLove and the plus sign represents the mission to support the HIV positive population. A few of my favorite things Suzanne said in our conversation that I felt needed to be out there in written form: "It’s been really cool to watch the lord move the way he does and I’ve been holding onto the kite string as it took off into the air."We saw what love and medical treatment could do for a child like her who could’ve died. My heart just continued to be broken for kids like her.I have no idea how it’s happened. It’s just God. The doors have just continued to open and I’ll obediently walk through them.When I look in these children’s eyes I see Jesus. It’s the only way on this earth I feel like I’m looking dead in the eyes of Jesus. I feel his presents more than ever before through these children.When we resettle these children it’s not love one, it’s the love of Jesus that is why we do what we do. We get to share the love of Christ through this sick kids.In the heartache and the hard He brought JOY everyday through these little children he’d given me to care for.The goal is to build a bigger facility so we can hold 50-100 children.“Submit to His will and I love living in that freedom.” How to get involved!Follow on social mediaPray for the children by name!Pray for our goal: love one - to love that one child that is in our arms or in front of us at that moment.Prayer for our staff.Donate - loveoneinternational.org