Outreach!!!

I can't believe it's time to go on outreach! It doesn't seem like it's been 3 months since I left Nebraska to come back to Hong Kong! God has done so many amazing things in my life since January. I don't even know how to explain it, but He has revealed so much of His love to me and how much He just wants to spend time with me. I still can't get over how much I've grown. When I look at myself, it doesn't seem like it, but then I think back on the experience I've had the past 3 months and I can see how God has worked in me. He has revealed so much to me and has healed areas of my life that I didn't know were broken. I thought that I had already dealt with things, but I still wasn't healed. He has done these things and I'm so amazed! I love how I've gotten so much more confident in what God is saying to me. I CAN hear His voice!!! And that is an amazing thing in itself!!! God has showed me some pictures and dreams recently that have been such a blessing to me and my life. They have been little gifts for me, and I'm in such awe of how much my Jesus loves me!!!! Wow!

Now we leave Hong Kong and have the opportunity to go out and share the love He has poured out on us. I'm looking forward to what He is going to show me and teach me. We leave on Wednesday and spend 2 weeks with the other team, then we split and go our separate ways in the nation we are going to. I'm going to ask that you don't comment about where we are going for security purposes.

Please continue to pray for us as we go out into this amazing nation (if you have any questions, please ask my family, they know :) Please pray for team unity, divine appointments, safety and security while traveling and for God to move in amazing ways in this nation through us. Thanks so much for all the prayer and support thus far! I love you all so much!!!! God bless

TeamWork

Hi everyone! Happy Easter!!!! I hope you have had a blessed time celebrating the amazing salvation we have in our Lord Jesus Christ. What a great holiday :)

This week we had team building. We took a personality profile test and it was so interesting to learn everyone’s personality styles, strengths, and weaknesses. It really helped me to understand everyone on my team better. We also worked on conflict resolution and reconciliation. This is so important to learn and it has really equipped me to be ready to face conflicts. I learned that it really isn’t a bad thing to have conflict, but it does need to be handled in the proper way. Not by fleeing or fighting, but by calming approaching the person out of respect. I am the type of person who likes to avoid conflict, but I recognize that I need to face the problem before it gets too big for me to handle.

God has really worked in my heart about my attitudes towards some people throughout the week. There were a couple people that I just clashed with and found very frustrating, but God has opened my eyes to how they were made in His eyes and I feel like I understand them better too because of the teachings.

After a whole week of team building exercises and lessons, we finally found out our teams for outreach. I will be on Jessi and Mari’s team. My team members are Josh, Sandra, Grace, Christa, Lauren, and Elise. We will be with Richelle and Kelley’s team: Chris, Christine, Le, Miriam, Katie, Stephen, Sephora and Rachel, for the first two weeks of outreach, then we will split and go our own ways for the rest of outreach. I’m very excited about my team and to see what God has in store for us in these next 2 months. I can’t believe that it’s almost time to leave!!! Just 1 ½ weeks…it has gone so fast.

On Wednesday we had a Love Feast, which is a special meal prepared for our team by the staff. They decorated the worship room and we all dressed up nice for the meal. We were able to share highlights from the lecture phase and to just celebrate our time together before we leave for outreach.

Thanks again for all of the prayers. Please continue to pray for our outreach preparations and also for YWAM’s 50 year celebration that will be next week. We will be busy preparing for both of these things and it could get pretty crazy around here! I will update you all one last time next weekend before we leave! Love you all!!!