The tongue

The past 2 weeks have been a reflection time on the past year. with graduation only 9 days away, we are getting extremely close to the end of war college. and i am relieved. War College has been amazing for me, but i am ready to go home. part of this reflection has been realising how much i have changed this year. and people back home would know that i always had a problem keeping my mouth shut. speaking before i think alot and stuff. but this year i have realised how POWERFUL my words are. they can either build up or bring down, when God calls me to give a word of correction, i need to do it etc. i have always had a problem with being a negative person. and God has been showing me the power that is in my tongue and what i say.

so the past 2 or 3 weeks, i have intentionally been trying to be less negative, more positive and speaking words of life. and i dont know whether I realise it more now, but there is so much negativity out there. people complaining about alot of different things all the time and to be honest it ticks me off sooooo much. it annoys me. and its helping me to realise how annoying it must be for others when i whinge about something or complain about something. there are worse things in the world than sooo much of what we complain about. we have a roof over our head, we have food, we are BLESSED!!!!

God calls us to be like Jesus.... while Jesus was getting brutally beaten, he wasnt complaining, yet we complain if we have to wake up an hour early or if we have to do something we dont want to do. while they were hammering those nails into his hands, he wasnt complaining. i am still working at not complaining, but I really think we ought to watch our words so that we arent complaining.

James 3 makes it extremely clear about our tongue and what should be coming out of our mouths. I encourage everyone to read it and the next time you want to complain about the bus being late, how about you think about the people in the world that are starving or something.

I AM BACCCCKKKKKKK!!!!

so i havent updated the whole time i was in OOB.... it was a bad idea, cuz i could go on and on and on about how blessed i was in OOB and the amazing things that happened and all that stuff, but i am not going to.



everyone was a huge blessing to me. i got to hang out with the greatest people ever! so i thought i would encourage them all on here... hmm lets start with.....

Denise (my roommate)- I was sooo excited to see you! soooo excited. i had a great time with you and wouldnt of wanted to be there without u!!! you mean alot to me and i can see growth in you since i last saw u!!!! you are beautiful!


Kirsten (my roommate)- it was fun sharing a room with u.... a little... umm... interesting at times, but it was sooo cool to just hang out with you in the room. you really inspired me on the 1st night doing spiritual readings cuz you were so bold in the prophetic and you really heard from God. also encouraging to see u minister in French. even though u were nervous, u did really good.

Dan (my leader)- I really had alot of fun getting to know you better. you leadership was amazing and you always knew just how to encourage someone. you always looked for ways to bring unity to the team and looked for ways to bring people up. i appreciate your leadership alot!

Tara (my leader)- You always have that great balance between being an amazing leader and being mature, to just being silly. i appreciated soooo much the fact that you gave out so much grace to us, especially if we needed to sleep in and stuff. The day you guys prayed over me, the word you gave me was really really encouraging and i appreciated it sooo much. thanks!

Olivia (my nextdoor neighbour)- You inspired me alot this week. Just taking all those prayer room shifts at 6 in the morning was amazing. and you never complained about it. you always bought alot of energy to the group and it was fun to have someone that was my age... you are soooo beautiful, dont ever forget it!!!!

Xander (my fellow Australian)- You are a warrior.... your passion is just sooo evident and it rubs off on everyone else... as well as that, your laugh is soooooooooooooooo funny!!!! always made me laugh alot!!!!!

Steph (my fellow intercessor)- It was really cool to be able to tell you how i was feeling and at times, you would make me tell u... but it was good to have someone there who at times, were feeling what i was feeling. you are a good friend who i value alot!!!

Talitha (my singer friend)- can i just say you and Acacia are amazing singers... sooooo good. i really enjoyed watching you guys. it was soooo fun to hang out with you on the last night and just tell you a bit of my life and hear about yours.... it was awesome!!! i appreciate the friendship that we made!

Acacia (my other singer friend)- you are soooooo humble. you really do sound amazing and i am not lying. you had perseverence this week and that was inspiring. even though you had like no voice, you kept going. i love you heaps and heaps and heaps!!!!!!


thanks for being soooo amazing everyone!!!!!!

on a cool note, Janet Munn, amazing amazing woman. if you have met her, you would know. she adopted me as her spiritual daughter!!!! so thats really cool. she is awesome!

OOB Brigade

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.

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.

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.

Photos from teen camp

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!