to my sweet father

Happy Dad day!!

 I love you!!!

3ts:)

a breath of air

4 more days..

These past couple of weeks have gone by..well they've just gone by fast. Though I've had little time to stop and catch my breath, I couldn't ask for a better time or place to fall madly in love with my Daddy. Often times in life I fall away distracted, usually through my own selfishness, but I'm finding myself focussed, determined, longing after more. I want to only want Jesus.  That can be a confusing and even bothersome statement to some. I want that focus, that longing, that determination to be only for Jesus. A couple months ago for the first time in my life I received true revelation of how much the creature of the UNIVERSE loves me. Not the head knowledge but the heart. Well of course I knew, but oh this time it hit me like it was something I had never heard before. The best news in the whole entire world! Because my Jesus spoke it into me. At exactly the right time. He is so good. My prayer now is that I would never stop discovering the depth of His love. One of our speakers Dan, told us that 'missions' is a very simple thing..it's falling madly in love with Jesus somewhere new. And I would have to agree. That is very simple..but it can truly rock your world.

  A day after our arrival to Turkey we have 10 straight days of performing! AH! I'm still trying to figure in my brain how this whole packing thing is going to work out. We've got so many costumes and from the looks of it now, it'll take up most of my suitcase. We performed for the campus on thursday and over all it went great for a first performance. I had to slow down to a panic most of the day. hehe But I have a feeling after 3 months of performing we'll have it down just perfect:) We will be in Turkey until July 15th I believe and from there we'll head to Lebanon! Our performance is the story of the prodigal son. There's acting, singing, and dancing all incorporated. Our art is a tool, an instrument for the Holy Spirit to enter into the eyes of our audience to bring transformation.

 Here are just a few pictures I got a hold of from our campus performace!

getting ready for the opening dance! 

Dressing room!

Mighty Spirit- from the left- Cindy, Lauren, Kay, Me, Laura

Cindy, Kevyn, Me

Liz and Paula- they're so beautiful!

Daniel loves makeup hehe

PA Family!:)

Here's the travel dates so far-

Turkey: June 16th- July 15th

Lebanon: July 16th-Aug 1st

Israel/Jordan: Aug 2nd-15th

Greece: Aug 16th-31st

Switzerland: Sept 1st-11th

Back to KONA Sept 12th!

THANK YOU so much for all of your prayers!! 

it's my favorite brothers birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!:)

Happy birthday bubba I LOVE YOU!!

faithfulness

I sit silenced, in awe of what all the Lord has done for me. July 27th, exactly a week ago God completed one of His promises to me. A big one in fact. Every single penny that I was needing for my outreach fee came in. It shocks me to look back when God first called me to come to YWAM..to look at the amount. I couldn't have done it on my own. When I began to grow weary and fearful He ALWAYS reminded me that His faithfulness reaches to the heavens! I'm stuck here trying to find a way to say 'thank you' to all of you who have helped me reach this, but I can't even find the words. I must thank you for your obedience to the Lord when He told you to give, or just simply your love and care for me. You have blessed me in so many ways. This journey of the unknown has strengthened my faith more than I have ever imagined. He is such an abundant God. I have found that God may ask us, well...more like command us to do things that look beyond idiotic to the world, but it is in those places we find true fulfilling joy. We discover the true character of God. We learn to take up our cross and follow hard! We lean not on our own understanding, because it fails us, but we trust and believe. He is so faithful! 

 

This thursday is the final day to make all payments, there are a few more in my group that are needing large amounts. Please please join us in prayer! 

I love you all!

a few pictures!

dance class!

The girls that I work with in recycling!

Lauren, Anna, and I dressed up and put on some makeup for the first time in awhile. Enjoying dinner at our favorite thai restaurant:)

skyping with kyle! hehe

It's as if the Lord is setting off fireworks in my head. It's a non stop adventure to discover Him. Day by day the Lord sets new challenges before me. The past couple of days the Lord has opened my eyes to the subtle and often unconscious effort of self dependence. I read a few more chapters in 'The knowledge of the Holy' by A.W. Tozer and was challenged in this area. Because we are born into sin, we don't even have the eyes to recognize it all on our own. We begin to live not as self, but Self. "The sinful man is willing to share himself, sometimes even to sacrifice himself for a desired end, but never to dethrone himself." The word dethroned crushed my heart. I began to search where in my life I fall into this and how to destroy my false thrown. The more I searched, the more I repented and all I heard from our Father is "I love you, I love you, I love you my daughter." He is so good. "It is only when in the gospel the soul is brought before the face of the Most Holy One without the protective shield of ignorance that the frightful moral incongruity is brought home to the conscience." A.W. Tozer

I miss you all and love you dearly. Thank you for all your prayers and support:)