Greetings family and friends,
I pray this letter finds you rested
and restored in this beautiful holiday season! Usually I’d be greeting
you in person in MB, so I pray that even though I am across the
Atlantic that you would feel the hope and love that I’m extending your
way!
As you know I’ve been spending the past 3 months in
southern Spain at the G42 leadership Academy. It has honestly been hard
to put into words what my heart has been going through on this
unexpected turn in the journey. Life here has been fun and energetic as
everyday has seemed to bring about some new form of hope and truth to
my life!
Many people go to college and then seminary for almost a
decade of their lives to gain what they need for a life in the
ministry. As a pioneer and an ‘unsettled with the norm’ kind of person,
I’ve been on a bit of a different journey to get to the same point in
understanding the call to my ministry. My search of greater things of
God has led me to the call in a vision to come to G42 and I’m here now
able to put into words why;
All my life I’ve walked aimlessly the
path that everyone has walked before me. The voice I’ve listened to has
always been those around me in their own walks as I’ve followed blindly
behind them. I’ve been hurt, frustrated, and felt like I’ve been left
behind so many times that I’ve found myself on the run so to speak.
I’ve essentially been on a pilgrimage to find purpose, direction, and a
point in this great divine world I find myself wrapped up in.
The Lord has called me here to G42 to sit at the feet of simple men of
God who are down to earth, living with a purpose, and full of LIFE!
People who are involved with the school are men of true integrity who
have been beaten down by the church, been at the brink of giving it all
up, and who have an understanding that this life is about people and
nothing else! I’ve been hurt by “9-5 style leadership” all my life and
G42 is a place that truly breaks that mould for me. On the flipside of
it I’ve also been challenged to live out this life I’m called to and
stop running; to make a plan and say AMEN! To see that God has actually
gifted me with amazing things for a reason and to stop being
uncommitted and flakey in my plans. So, the search has led me here…to a
tribe that is willing to become less so that I can become more. One not
letting my past direct my future anymore!
As I read my Bible
time and time again, the words are making sense to my mind as the truth
is starting to connect my mind with what my heart has been saying all
along.
I see this life I’ve been blessed with as the one chance I have to bring His Kingdom here as it is in Heaven!
And so, this brings me to let you know that I’ll be returning home this
coming January! As the whirlwind goes, my financial support isn’t
nearly enough to stay over seas and the plan on my heart is simple; to
live and ‘be’ for this next part of the journey. I’m not returning to
become complacent but to bring LIFE! My heart has been souled out to
the fact that I have a choice to stand at the Tree of Life or walk
away, yet I know that the blood of Christ gives me no excuse to feel or
think as though I can’t or shouldn’t!
I pray you see my heart as I
prepare to return in this next month. I am still looking for financial
support to fly home in as little debt as possible, so if you are
willing to help out please feel free to mail cheques to:
c/o Matt Peters
Box 46
Arnaud, MB
R0A 0B0
Thank
so much for your prayers and support this past year! His Kingdom is
advancing! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Love,
– Matt
