So here i am sitting at the apartments in Vancouver awaiting our midnight departure for a 3.5 hr drive to Seattle (depending on the border) and then at 6:50am tomorrow morning, have a very long flight all the way to the other side of the states to Maine. I am going on a Brigade of 8 people. Me, Tara, Dan, Kirsten, Olivia, Xander, Acacia and Talitha. We also have Steph and Denise coming too, which is super exciting!!! so pretty much, for 8 nights we are doing prophetic evangelism on the beach.... we are doing what we call spiritual readings... we ask God for a word or picture for a person and prophesy over them. sounds simple hey? well i generally am not too confident in my prophetic gift. i know i can prophesy and stuff, but i am not too advanced. everyone else in the team is pretty advanced in this stuff, so i am sooo nervous and all night i have been playing the comparing game. i am not as good as everyone else on the team, what can i bring etc. its one thing that this week i have noticed i do alot... and i need to change that.
i am sooo glad Denise is going to be there, she has similar gifts to me, but she is advanced, so i know i am gonna learn alot off of her this week. i am sooo nervous though and i just want to be open to what God wants to say to me and the people i am ministering to.
so you can pray that i hear from the Lord, am open to what he wants me to say and also to receive rest as well.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Sooo Monday night i was hanging out (really late!) with Marnie, the new officer at Xculture.we were hanging out in her kitchen and she told me this really cool analogy. its about boxes. and how often we can put people in boxes which doesnt leave room for them to grow. i was talking about my patience and my dads patience being very little and she was saying how i just put us in a box and havent allowed us to grow. (it was along those lines).
so it got me thinking about myself. and how people view me? so i am curious... how do people view me? think about it... how do u view me? I feel as though so many people (esp from back home) sees me as some netball chick. some chick who loves to play sport, who is just one of the guys. someone who is fun to hang out with. but to me, these are all boxes. while this stuff is good, there is sooo much more to me and i am ready to step out of those boxes and show ppl that i am an amazing woman of God!
if you told me i was a woman a yr ago, i would have laughed in your face. but now i want people to see me as a gentle, amazing woman of God who has sooo much to offer. who is not just good at sports, but is a good listener, good encourager, a prayer warrior, someone who is bold, someone who can lead, someone who people can look up to! thats who i want to be seen as... i am sick of ppl just thinking i am sporty and not much else. i am ready to step into the fullness that God has for me and that means growing up!
Pete (Marnie's husband) gave me some good advice tonight. about how all my life i have probably been stooping to people's levels of me, but now its time to rise to my expectations (prob not the best word but u understand) and live on the level that i want to and what God has called me to. and thats what i am gonna do... so if u think i am just some fun, sporty, netball chick... THINK AGAIN. i am a woman of God, a mighty woman of God.
so it got me thinking about myself. and how people view me? so i am curious... how do people view me? think about it... how do u view me? I feel as though so many people (esp from back home) sees me as some netball chick. some chick who loves to play sport, who is just one of the guys. someone who is fun to hang out with. but to me, these are all boxes. while this stuff is good, there is sooo much more to me and i am ready to step out of those boxes and show ppl that i am an amazing woman of God!
if you told me i was a woman a yr ago, i would have laughed in your face. but now i want people to see me as a gentle, amazing woman of God who has sooo much to offer. who is not just good at sports, but is a good listener, good encourager, a prayer warrior, someone who is bold, someone who can lead, someone who people can look up to! thats who i want to be seen as... i am sick of ppl just thinking i am sporty and not much else. i am ready to step into the fullness that God has for me and that means growing up!
Pete (Marnie's husband) gave me some good advice tonight. about how all my life i have probably been stooping to people's levels of me, but now its time to rise to my expectations (prob not the best word but u understand) and live on the level that i want to and what God has called me to. and thats what i am gonna do... so if u think i am just some fun, sporty, netball chick... THINK AGAIN. i am a woman of God, a mighty woman of God.
Havent blogged for awhile... oops!
hey guys... so i havent blogged in 1.5 weeks and thats pretty bad for me. normally i like to keep up with my blog on a regular basis and 1.5 weeks is too long. soo much has been happening since i got back from teen camp that i didnt really know what to blog on, but i guess i will just mention what has been happening:
1) We started our kids program here at Xculture called Kids Games and its been great. we had scottish soccer players teach our kids how to play soccer the 1st week... sooo amazing! they were great guys.
2) The officers for Xculture finally arrived and they are amazing people. Pete and Marnie are 2 people following God with all their heart and its great. Marnie has challenged me soooooo much to just really get into what God has for my life in the next 5.5 weeks here in Canada.
3) I have been challenged massively from Marnie and its been great. i have been made to think about where i am at and challenged to change and grow and i sooo desire to change alot of stuff at the moment. of course its also been super hard, and i have cried alot of tears, but its been great. Marnie is someone i admire and look up to alot.
4) This week i have done rations (or devos) 3 out 4 days this week. what a record!!!! and i am loving it!
5) I preached my first sermon at a church on sunday and it went fairly well. had some good feedback. so praise God for obediance and also praise him for giving me the words to say.
6) I am going home in 5.5 weeks. i am gonna miss my friends here soooo much but i am relieved that i am almost going home. its exciting!!!
well my life has been hard, but great the past 1.5 weeks. I hope and pray that God reveals more and more to me as time goes on.
1) We started our kids program here at Xculture called Kids Games and its been great. we had scottish soccer players teach our kids how to play soccer the 1st week... sooo amazing! they were great guys.
2) The officers for Xculture finally arrived and they are amazing people. Pete and Marnie are 2 people following God with all their heart and its great. Marnie has challenged me soooooo much to just really get into what God has for my life in the next 5.5 weeks here in Canada.
3) I have been challenged massively from Marnie and its been great. i have been made to think about where i am at and challenged to change and grow and i sooo desire to change alot of stuff at the moment. of course its also been super hard, and i have cried alot of tears, but its been great. Marnie is someone i admire and look up to alot.
4) This week i have done rations (or devos) 3 out 4 days this week. what a record!!!! and i am loving it!
5) I preached my first sermon at a church on sunday and it went fairly well. had some good feedback. so praise God for obediance and also praise him for giving me the words to say.
6) I am going home in 5.5 weeks. i am gonna miss my friends here soooo much but i am relieved that i am almost going home. its exciting!!!
well my life has been hard, but great the past 1.5 weeks. I hope and pray that God reveals more and more to me as time goes on.
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Teen camp!
Teen camp was amazing... i could go on and on about it. my girls were amazing and it was cool to see them grow heaps and heaps! there was reconciliation between Aysha and Crystal Lozie, which was awesome as!! best part of teen camp. i dont wanna go into detail about it, but i have added a couple of photos. here are a couple of my good friends.... Top photo is Carlye, me and Caitlyn... then in the bottom photo, the girl in the grey singlet and the black shorts is Jill Touzeau. they were the amazing women that i made friends with. some of the guys included Mark and Mike Touzeau and Mark Armstrong and Conner... ohhh i just miss everyone sooo much. i dont know what it is about this camp that makes me really really miss everyone. maybe its cuz i know i wont see any of these people for a very long time... and it makes me soooo sad.
God did amazing things in those teens. on Tuesday night, he called me to give a hard word to the whole camp about apathy and flirting during worship... that was hard but i was obediant and God did amazing stuff through it. also got to see some major reconciliation happen in the teen cell girls which really needed to happen. sooo much happened, not enough room to say it all.
activities were amazing.... mud wrestling, flour bomb war, paintballing etc. was awesome as!!!
sooo time for some more photos... lets see what i have here..... i will put more up, but we shall see what i have here. ok so 1st photo is some of the gang that came, the next photo is of kyle and mark touzeau and then the last photo is of conner.... amazing amazing ppl... should all get to know them!
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