Hello Friends and Family! Its me, I know it's been a while. But good news I am alive and well and IM GOING TO CAMBODIA!!!!! So that is pretty exciting!
This will be a strange update because so much has happened in what feels like such a small amount of time, but I will try my best to make sense.
SO! I am now officially done staffing my first DTS (woohoo) fall quarter students graduated on February 10th, and with tear filled goodbyes I saw students who were radically changed by Gods love leave this place to go to their homes states away and oceans away. The most beautiful thing about the last DTS was that I was not sad to see them go (okay maybe a little) but I was more overwhelmed with how I got the privilege to watch 27 students fall deeply in love with Jesus and then see how they changed after they came back from 2 months over seas sharing His love and mercy with others. It was truly a reminder that GOD changes people and I do not.
So now that that first school is nicely wrapped up and I have found closure in the people I had spent 3 months pouring into, I felt the freedom to completely and unabashedly give every last bit of myself to this current school.
God has been pretty busy with this school, not just in the students hearts but in mine as well. To start off I taught for the first time ever!!!!!! My topic was relinquishing rights and how God is so so so good in the fact that He dose not ask us to give anything up unless it is truly for our best interest. If I really believe that God is good and only wants whats best for me why would I not give up everything if he asked me to?
Another thing God has been teaching me in my time here is mentorship VS discipleship. As some of you know Ywam's staff can tend to be on the younger side, and me being stubborn in my ways of "how the world should work" defiantly had a problem with being paired with someone older than myself out of fear that I wouldn't be good enough to pour into their lives. You see I have mostly worked with high school students and am most comfortable in a mentorship roll but that is not what God calls us to be in peoples lives always. Sometimes He calls us to disciple people. To me this means that I commit to walking along side people and continually point them back to Jesus. HOW BEAUTIFUL IS THAT?!
The theme of this school is "Life Abundant" and the theme verse is John 10:10 "the thief comes only to steal kill and destroy but I have come so you may have life and life abundant" Now that we are in the midst of week 7 this verse could not reign more true. This school has been a fight for life and a fight against the lies of the enemy telling students that they aren't good enough or that they are too broken or that they have to fake their relationship and progress with God to win the approval of the staff. But God has been faithful in slowly but surly breaking down those walls and leading this school as a whole through truth.
NOW time to talk about Cambodia.
I will be leading with 2 other incredible outreach leaders, a team of 11 students to serve our guts out in Cambodia come march 13th. We will be moving between a couple different locations serving in kids homes, sex trafficking prevention centers, street ministry, and some other stuff. I am so incredibly excited to see what the Lord will do and so expectant in His Holy Spirit moving while we are there. (here's a tots press pic of the crew)
So there's a quick recap of what has happened and a little on what is to come! Something to keep in your prayers is safety for my team and also for this summer! My goal is to go to a leadership training school that will be held in Kona called Equip! Equip is a 6 week course on how to be a better leader in Ywam and I am very much hoping to attend but what i need most right now is...
1. to get accepted into the course before all the spots get filled.
2. I need around $1,400 to attend this course so prayer the funds will come in would be appreciated!
Life has been going by pretty fast here. I am already nearing the end of lecture phase of my second school and am so in awe at how God keeps his promises to us. He has been so faithful in making this state that I had never been to and knew no one at, into a place I call home. He knew exactly where i needed to be in this time of my life and I literally get to sit back and watch as He changes everything around me. God's expectation of me is to believe I am loved and walk out in it, and nothing else. That has been his expectation since the beginning. That we realize how loved we are by Him, and walk accordingly.
This will be a strange update because so much has happened in what feels like such a small amount of time, but I will try my best to make sense.
SO! I am now officially done staffing my first DTS (woohoo) fall quarter students graduated on February 10th, and with tear filled goodbyes I saw students who were radically changed by Gods love leave this place to go to their homes states away and oceans away. The most beautiful thing about the last DTS was that I was not sad to see them go (okay maybe a little) but I was more overwhelmed with how I got the privilege to watch 27 students fall deeply in love with Jesus and then see how they changed after they came back from 2 months over seas sharing His love and mercy with others. It was truly a reminder that GOD changes people and I do not.
So now that that first school is nicely wrapped up and I have found closure in the people I had spent 3 months pouring into, I felt the freedom to completely and unabashedly give every last bit of myself to this current school.
God has been pretty busy with this school, not just in the students hearts but in mine as well. To start off I taught for the first time ever!!!!!! My topic was relinquishing rights and how God is so so so good in the fact that He dose not ask us to give anything up unless it is truly for our best interest. If I really believe that God is good and only wants whats best for me why would I not give up everything if he asked me to?
Another thing God has been teaching me in my time here is mentorship VS discipleship. As some of you know Ywam's staff can tend to be on the younger side, and me being stubborn in my ways of "how the world should work" defiantly had a problem with being paired with someone older than myself out of fear that I wouldn't be good enough to pour into their lives. You see I have mostly worked with high school students and am most comfortable in a mentorship roll but that is not what God calls us to be in peoples lives always. Sometimes He calls us to disciple people. To me this means that I commit to walking along side people and continually point them back to Jesus. HOW BEAUTIFUL IS THAT?!
The theme of this school is "Life Abundant" and the theme verse is John 10:10 "the thief comes only to steal kill and destroy but I have come so you may have life and life abundant" Now that we are in the midst of week 7 this verse could not reign more true. This school has been a fight for life and a fight against the lies of the enemy telling students that they aren't good enough or that they are too broken or that they have to fake their relationship and progress with God to win the approval of the staff. But God has been faithful in slowly but surly breaking down those walls and leading this school as a whole through truth.
NOW time to talk about Cambodia.
I will be leading with 2 other incredible outreach leaders, a team of 11 students to serve our guts out in Cambodia come march 13th. We will be moving between a couple different locations serving in kids homes, sex trafficking prevention centers, street ministry, and some other stuff. I am so incredibly excited to see what the Lord will do and so expectant in His Holy Spirit moving while we are there. (here's a tots press pic of the crew)
1. to get accepted into the course before all the spots get filled.
2. I need around $1,400 to attend this course so prayer the funds will come in would be appreciated!
Life has been going by pretty fast here. I am already nearing the end of lecture phase of my second school and am so in awe at how God keeps his promises to us. He has been so faithful in making this state that I had never been to and knew no one at, into a place I call home. He knew exactly where i needed to be in this time of my life and I literally get to sit back and watch as He changes everything around me. God's expectation of me is to believe I am loved and walk out in it, and nothing else. That has been his expectation since the beginning. That we realize how loved we are by Him, and walk accordingly.
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