Don’t be confused, I still am in Kenya but I felt the need to recap Cambodia.
Cambodia was my least documented month of the race but it was one of my favorites. It was probably the most eventful as well. My hope is that since I didn’t document it well, that God will multiply my memories of all the incredible things that happened.
First off, I received a new team coming into last month! Another team of all ladies coming from different teams on the squad. It’s a rock solid team. We play together, laugh together, minister together, study the God’s word, pray together, fart together, have girl talk together, snuggle together, and many more. A team that plays and lays together stays together. We are The Sheilas.
Another monumental thing! One Sunday, God told me to go to graduate school to be a Professional counselor. This was one of my fears going into the race…that God would tell me to go back to school…yikes. I don’t love school, I appreciate the opportunity it presents but I just don’t enjoy it.
I’ve thought about being a counselor for a long time but I just didn’t want to go back to school.
All of the things I want to do in life point to needing counseling experience. I want to help women in crisis…women in crisis pregnancy situations, women affected by sexual abuse, and counseling young unexperienced mothers. Women involved in sex work whether voluntarily or involuntarily. Also, women who are victims of war rape in crisis areas.
In whatever I do, I want to see physical healing linked with emotional healing which brings spiritual healing. They are all connected in intricate ways and I want to help facilitate emotional and spiritual healing as the Holy Spirit works in and through me. I would love to partner with doctors and nurses in overseas ministry so that they can help with physical needs, I can help with the emotional needs, and then the Holy Spirit takes on their spiritual needs to transform their lives.
My spirit LEAPS when I think about the lives that God will divinely place in my life that I’ll be able impact with the counseling training that He’s going to help me get.
Many times while researching future ministry opportunities, I would just make the excuse that I wasn’t qualified….well this particular Sunday, God told me to stop being lazy and get myself qualified!! He’s provided school opportunities, my brain, His strength and guidance to make it possible so I’m going to do it. I’m hoping to start a program this fall. But that means that I’m taking the GRE in Nairobi on April 22….YIKES…I’m studying as much as I can but it’ll be a miracle for me to get the grade I need so I would LOVE prayers for that!
This past month was filled with fruitful ministry opportunities and divine moments. I got to meet, in passing, Somaly Mam, an incredible woman who started an organization to help women affected by sex trafficking after she escaped from it herself. She has an amazing book which everyone should read. It was an honor to visit her organization to see the things they are doing. You should google her and find out more.
I felt God pulling me to preach last month so I did to a small group on Sunday. It was definitely a test from God of my obedience and faithfulness to Him which has launched me further into seeking His will and listening to His prompting.
Putting aside my selfish desires and focusing on Him, my reason for living and breathing.
When we are faithful in little things then He is faithful in beautiful ways.
We worked in a children’s home with some of the coolest kids I’ve ever met. Through connections that my teammates had with another organization called Remember Nhu, we saw answered prayers of 4 years from our children’s home when God organized a partnership between these 2 ministries. The founder of Remember Nhu, Carl, decided to partner with our children’s home and work to get the children sponsored so they would no longer struggle for money. Hallelujah!
Our God provides in ways better than we can plan ourselves.
This month was full of answered prayers, divine moments, future direction, and continued focus to rely on God’s provision and faithfulness.
Learning to jump up IMMEDIATELY when God calls me to do something just like people throughout the Bible did. All the time in my Bible reading, I see them doing something “IMMEDIATELY”.
Learning to be a Godly woman of action.
Cheers to God’s plan’s being better than our own,
Jen
