I apologize it has taken me so long to write this week! I have been in nonstop rehersal from the beginning of this week....but the good news is that we are going on outreach in 2 weeks!!!! I am getting so excited to finally go and share everything I have learned here and be able to grow somuch through all the amazing things we are going to do on outreach :) I am blown away at how awesome the production is so far! our leader keeps telling us we are the best DTS she has had yet :) I am sure she says that everyear but it still makes us all feel good :) This week in lecture we had a speaker named Jason Mae who felt a huge calling to the Asian nations for his life and shared with is how many radical things are happening in the asian continent right now! South korea is sending out the most missionaries in the world right now....and it is spreading rapidly through out its communist neighbors. It was such an awesome week to get to be enlightened of all the amazing things he is doing in the asian culture! Our speaker had to leave on thursday, so this morning we had a man named Dan Baumann come and tell us a little bit about his story of getting imprisoned in Iran for 9 weeks! It was such an amazing story of Gods power and pervision! I was very moved and inspired :) He had a very compelling story about a vision that he got from God when he was in an airplane into Afganistan....as he was nearing the airport he bagan to feel his heart filling with fear about what he was going to encounter when he was in Afganistan....as he was praying God showed him a vision of Jesus waiting at the airport for him...rocking back and forth with excitment.....he said that he saw Jesus talking to a man about how excited he was for Dan to come and spend time with him.
And that Afganistan was the best place for Dan and him to become really close friends. And it hit me at that moment that that is exactly how God feels about me going on outreach! I welled up a little at the thought of Jesus being like that for me.....and eagerly awaiting my arrival in Switzerland in a few weeks...He is calling me to all those countries because he know that those are the places that I will be able to fall more and more in love with Him! I am so ready for that relationship to blossom :) A really cool quote that he said was the key to bringing the light of God over seas was "To fall deeper in love with God....and let others watch". This quote was so simple yet is struck such a deep note in my heart......all we have to do is love God and he will do the rest!!!I am so excited to fall deeper and deeper in love with Him through out this next season of traveling!!!
Here is some information about when I leave and when I come back :)
I Leave Hawaii on June 28th and come back to Hawaii on the 15th of September but I will not be back in Ventura till around the 19th of September.
We start off in Switzerland and go to Italy from there, then to Greece and Egypt.
Some prayer requests are simply for the Nations we will be going to along with overall finances for our team......I know that we are going to be able to see many miracles in these next few weeks with everyones finances....but continue to pray and ask for Gods pervision for everyone....as hard as it is for me to say I still have about 3,500 left for my outreach but I know that God is humbling me and teaching me to rely completly on His pervision...He has provided for me this far, and I am confident that he will provide all that I need and even more for my team and staff memebers :) If you are interested in donating to my outreach please email me at surfr_grl180@yahoo.com and I will let you know who to send the support to :) thank you all somuch for your continued support! I could not do any of this without you :) I love you guys!
Shelby: We watched your dance on the blog. God has given you a gift of dance you do so well.
ReplyDeleteFrom Roy: What a good writer! You're excitement for learning how to draw nearer to God comes through so clearly. It is joy for me to accompany you on this journey of study and performance. God be with you on your travels. Love Grandma